Passion FM first appeared on 106.2FM across Bristol at the end of 1994. At first it catered greatly for Jungle, as well as Reggae and Soul. Over the first Christmas period, it featured an overnight marathon show from Easygroove who hadn’t been on radio since BAD Radio closed in 1989. This was a journey through…
Radio Avalon was the official radio for the Glastonbury festival. They were first heard at the 1983 festival, broadcasting for about a week around the time the festival was on. They were then on air for every festival after that. By 1992, the station was no longer a pirate station, but was covered by one…
Radio Insomnia broadcast pop music form Plymouth on 103 FM. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Artwork/Cuttings Flyer 1 Flyer 2 Cutting 1 – 15/2/87 Cutting 2 Cutting 3 – 22/2/87
Sound City Radio broadcast pop music form Plymouth on 105 FM. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Audio Bowen James – 5/5/85 16 mins Phil Brown – 5/5/85 14 mins Bowen James…
S.Y.T was a truly enigmatic pirate. Dismissing the efforts of the community pirates’ attempts at legality and yet also keeping far removed from the hobby free radio scene. They were a slightly insane and wacky direct descendant of the first Bristolian pirate Rebel Radio, and was the brainchild of Doug Savage, Jeremy Yet and Pete…
B.A.D stood for Bristol’s Amalgamated DJs and it was the first West Indian / Black music pirate in Bristol. Some would say it was the first to really get the attention of the public in Bristol. Three DJs, Leroy, Dixon and Dee, known as “The Soul Twins”, finished a residency at Hollywood’s night club and…
In late 87 or early 88, Paul Hassan and around 4 or 5 of his friends, who enjoyed going out partying on the Bristol underground scene and all enjoyed a lot of varied music, felt that there was a gap not being filled by the current pirates in Bristol. Paul and his friends thought that…
By April 1993, Wile-up’s Magnum Radio had come to an end. Move on a year, around Easter 1994 and a powerful signal hit 105 MHz as Wile-up returned to the airwaves with Ragga FM. The audio was never great on Ragga FM but you couldn’t fault Wile-up’s enthusiasm for radio. The station enjoyed popularity in…
103.5 FM – A Personal Recollection by Terry Starr. The mid-1980s were an exciting time to be a young radio enthusiast growing up. The second wave of ILR stations was getting established, with mergers and acquisitions being a hint of the future landscape of commercial broadcasting. The BBC was reforming their services and began installing…
Castle Radio broadcast from Salisbury during the early 1980s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Audio Castle Radio – 94.2 – Salisbury – Barry Jacobs – 5/4/81 60 mins Castle Radio –…