Now, Farpoint is an odd one. When a station comes on, and you’re involved in pirate radio, you’ll generally have an idea about who is behind it and roughly from where it comes. But in Farpoint’s case, nobody seemed to know anything about it! They were also different from most other pirates in the type…
In the mid 1980s Dave Fuller and Claire Mansfield used to jam CB channels playing rock music. They later decided it would make more sense to start a proper radio station, which would become RFM. The first tests took place on 14th August 1986 on 89.7 FM, and continued regularly after that. Early broadcasts were…
Vision FM began test transmissions in April 2006 on 103.5FM for 2 weeks before going off air, to return on a full Sunday rota on 101.8FM a few weeks later. Vision FM was bought on air due to the lack of decent house music on the West Midlands radio scene. Other stations were catering for…
Radio Active broadcast dance music to Glasgow in the early 1990s. They could be heard on 87.9 FM. You can find more information on this station on the following website: Radio Active Website (broken Link) Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Audio Joe Cool – 23/9/93…
Energy 106 broadcast from Ayrshire in the early 2000’s 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 Energy 106 – Ayrshire – Mike James – Dec 2001 121 mins Energy 106 – Ayrshire…
Rush FM was originally founded by a team of individuals in early 2004 after the closure of Dimension FM. Dimension’s closure was a great loss to the underground scene of Shropshire, and something needed to be done in order to restore this community which was lost. Rush FM plans quickly began to take a basic…
Following a raid in 1988, Leeds pirate station Music City Radio (MCR) decided return even bigger. They did this by adding a second transmitter on 104.9 for Bradford. This new service started on Monday 8th August 1988, and was not a relay but a completely new service. On the 1st October this new service changed…
Kaos FM were first heard in the late 1980s. They broadcast rock and pop on 103.5 across Glasgow, Paisley and Renfrewshire. They could be heard from 6 PM till midnight every night, with extended hours at weekends. By the early 1990s they had moved to 100.5. If anyone has any more information on this station…
Radio Jackie first took to the airwaves of Southwest London on the 19th March 1969. They went on to be one of the most regular and well known pirates throughout the 70s. There were many raids and court cases, and in one of them, the barrister they had hired found a loophole. That was, that…
Eruption FM first took the air on the 17th February 1993. They could be heard on 101.3 with a mixture of hardcore and jungle. They were soon part of the Rave scene, promoting many events DJs in the early days included DJ Rap, Food Junky, DJ Vibes, Krome, DNA, Stompy, Vinylgroover, MC MC and Stevie…