AM/FM - London's Pirate Pioneers

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM TalkBack March 1990 (E15)

Some more uploads of AM/FM TalkBack from 1990, including comments about house music taking over the airwaves and the return of LWR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvd6...

Programme (PDF) for the V&A East Sound Clash event is here: vanda-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2025/03/27/1...

On Saturday, there's a sound installation broadcast from five hidden transmitters across the Olympic Park, sharing rare recordings from 80s and 90s pirate radio interspersed with voices from the scene, with stations like Rave FM, Dance FM, Eruption, Friends FM and Kiss FM. eepurl.com/jbYdEI

At Mick Jones’ Rock And Roll exhibition.
Behind me is Trellick Tower where I helped Joe & Paul set up a short-lived pirate radio station - Radio Clash.
With the aim of broadcasting across London, they put the aerial up, but positioned it upside down so the transmission barely reached Notting Hill.

YouTube video by RivieraLife TV Nick Catford - Radio Jackie The Early Years

From the Signals from the Edge conference on pirate radio at the start of March, here's Nick Catford (Mike Knight) talking about the beginning of Radio Jackie in the late sixties and early seventies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWT9...

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM TalkBack February 1990 (E12)

Was trying to put these out roughly on the anniversary of when they were made but I got behind... Anyway, here's another TalkBack with Paul Dodd calling in to reminisce about JFM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYJ...

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM TalkBack February 1990 (E10)

From February 1990 here's AM/FM's phone-in with RFL's Kenny Myers on the station's temporary close, Tim Stewart looking for recordings, a new fanzine from Joel Goodman and praise for Radio Jackie. youtu.be/VDhFGJNQG-Y

[Signals from the Edge] Signals from the Edge is a unique one-day land-based ‘pirate’ radio conference. It takes place on Saturday the 1st of March 2025, at the University of Bedfordshire's Post Graduate Centre in central L...

More on the land-based pirate radio conference at the University of Bedfordshire... sites.google.com/view/signals...

YouTube video by amfmldn London Weekend Radio 1983

On 22 January 1983 London Weekend Radio began regular broadcasts. Here's some clips from the early days with DJs including Jerry Peters opening the station for the first time plus John Dawson, Jonny Heyward, Paul Stafford and Marc Mason. youtu.be/EHhbhCCzqSQ

The University of Bedfordshire has a conference on 1 March looking at land-based pirate radio in the UK and Ireland across the decades and with a number of interesting speakers. Will be there too. store.beds.ac.uk/conferences-...

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM Talkback January 1990 (E09)

From January 1990 "AMFM Talkback has callers talking back about Solar, Joy, QFM, TKO, Twilight and phone boxes. Call 0836 40 45 52, or key 7 on your touchtone phone now." www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtSm...

JFM JFM Radio is back! Playing classic Jazz, Funk and Soul music. 24/7 Worldwide.

Hello everyone! A quick reminder programmes start today on JFM at Midday! Hope you can join us!

12pm Justin West
1pm Roger Brooks
2pm Brett Baker (Bakers Choice)
3pm JFM Archives - Brian Anthony
@amfm.org.uk

jfmradio.online

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM Talkback January 1990 (E08)

From January 1990, what callers most remember about pirates in the eighties including Thameside Radio's Dave Birdman show, South London Radio, JFM and the soul music pioneers. There's also a discussion about recent raids in London and stations switching off together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwG...

Here's Bear on Telstar One in 1977 at a time when not many pirate radio stations were broadcasting on VHF.

Bear Freeman sitting in the Telstar 1 studio wearing headphones, a microphone on an anglepoise stand in front of him and his hand on the mixer with a tape deck and a tuner to the right of the desk.

Sad to hear that Bear Freeman has passed away. He was a stalwart of North London rock pirates in the seventies and eighties, including Telstar 1, Alice's Restaurant and RFM.

YouTube video by amfmldn AM/FM Talkback December 1989 (E06)

The last AM/FM Talkback of the eighties, discussing London pirate radio stations Raiders FM, Stomp FM, Chilling FM, Twilight Radio and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqG...

From this day in 1985, here's Chris Philips on the very first day of broadcasting from Starpoint Radio.

This week in 1989, oldies station Radio Mi Amigo, another plug for Bob Mower's show on Coast AM, Raiders FM vs Stomp FM and Carl from Starpoint hoping to win the competition. youtu.be/Ysabe8cDrlU

FM transmitter pirate radio 1984 | eBay This is an old pirate radio transmitter  which was in service in 1984  last time it was tested frequency pcb worked but output pcb didn't needed new transistor. very old transmitter made by one of the...

There's a 1980s vintage pirate rig on eBay used by one of the Greek stations in London. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18681311...

AM/FM Talkback - The London Pirate Radio Phone-in - YouTube From the autumn of 1989 through to 1993, AM/FM Talkback operated as a kind of voice bulletin board on a phone line, alongside other AM/FM lines for news, lis...

From 1989 to 1993, AM/FM Talkback operated as a kind of voice bulletin board on a phone line for people interested in London pirate radio. People would call in with their comments, a mixture of listeners and DJs. For the first time since then you can hear those tapes. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

With Kiss leaving 100 FM in London tonight, here's how the pirate Kiss FM closed down on 31 December 1988 and relaunched legally on 1 September 1990.

London's Pirate Pioneers Tracing the history of London's original dance music stations through clips, music and contemporary news reports and interviews.

There's a new version of the London's Pirate Pioneers mix uploaded to Mixcloud. Same content as the original 2014 mix but it now sounds better. www.amfm.org.uk/pirate-pione...

Migrating from the old place with stuff coming soon. For now, don't forget the London's Pirate Pioneers book on the history of the capital's unlicensed radio stations: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...