BRISTOL PIRATE RADIO RECORDINGS

This blog is intended for me to post my pirate radio recordings. Most of the recordings are from Bristol, most will be pirate but there will be some legal stations and stations from other cities or national stations.

IF YOU OR YOUR FRIENDS HAVE ANY TAPE RECORDINGS OF PIRATE RADIO FROM BRISTOL, PLEASE SUBMIT THEM TO THIS BLOG BY RECORDING THEM TO MP3 (CLICK HERE FOR A HELP GUIDE) AND UPLOADING THEM TO http://www.sharebee.com, or a similar site such as Megaupload, Mediafire, ZShare, but not Rapidshare as it's getting a bit hard to use. SEND THE URL IT GIVES YOU TO ME VIA A COMMENT ON MY LATEST POST or BY EMAIL AT bristolpirates at gmail.com (you'll have to correct that with the proper @ symbol, I started getting spam on the address). WE COULD ALSO ARRANGE A PICK-UP OF YOUR TAPES IF YOU LIVE IN BRISTOL AND CAN'T CONVERT TAPES TO MP3. THANKS IN ADVANCE, YOU WILL BE CREDITED.

Bristol Pirate Radio Timeline

Any new information on the following stations is greatly appreciated. Contact bristolpirates at gmail dot com (but write that as a proper email address!), or leave a comment on the latest blog post :)

Early 1980s
Rebel Radio - Activism - Run from a squat cafe in Stokes Croft area.

1986
Radio 103.5 - 103.5 MHz - Comedy / Music - Until 1988

1987
B.A.D Radio - 106.95, 107.2 & 105.2 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, House etc. - Until 1989

1988
F.T.P. Radio - 103.7 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, House etc. / Community - Until 31st Dec 1988
Emergency Radio - 99.9 & 97.9 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, House etc. - Until 26th Dec 1988
S.Y.T. Radio - 104.4 MHz - Music / Activism - Until 1989
R.A.W. - 104.9 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, House etc. - Until end of Dec 1988

1989
Black FM - 97.9 & 105.2 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Dance etc. - Until Dec 1990
Purple (Keynsham) - 89-89 MHz - ? - Lasted maybe a month
S.P.E.C. Radio - 101.25 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Dance etc. - Until 1991

1990
FPR - Various Freqs - Dance etc. - Until 1991, maybe 1992
T.N.T Radio - Various - Short Lived
Inner City Radio - 100 MHz and others - Short Lived
Magnum Radio - 100 and 100.4 MHz - Various - Until 1991
Exodus Radio - 105.1 MHz - Rave / Techno - Heard a couple of times, may be from outside Bristol (Wales?)

1991
Spin FM (Patchway) & Bass FM (Little Stoke) - 2 Stations with drifty low power transmitters - Dance - Until  1992
S.Y.T. Radio - 104.4 MHz - Music / Activism - Until early 1992
E.M.I. Radio - 101.7 MHz - Music / Sound Art / Activism / Listener Access - Until Late 1991
S.O.S. Radio - 101.5 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Dance etc. - Until 1992
Shag FM (Chew Magna) - Until 1992

1992
Beat FM (Patchway) - 105.5 MHz - Dance - Short Lived
Pukar Radio - 105.25 MHz amongst others - Asian, Bangrah, Bollywood - Until 1994
Raw FM - 101 MHz - Various - Until 1993
W.L.S. - Short Lived

1993
N.B.S. - 102.2 MHz - SYT style - Short Lived
Magnum Radio - 104 MHz - Various

1994
Power FM - 103.95 MHz - Various - Twinned with Passion FM to become Dance FM in 1996
Ragga FM - 105 MHz - Various - Until 2001 on and off
Flight FM (Stoke Gifford and surrounds) - 87.9 MHz - Dance - Until 1995
PDC (Yate) - 106.1 MHz - Dance - Short Lived
Passion FM - 106.2 MHz - Various - Twinned with Power FM to become Dance FM in 1996

1996
Dance FM - 104 MHz - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Dance etc. - Until 1999
TYHM Radio - 106 MHz - Soul from cassette - Until 1997

1997
Fantasy FM - 107 MHz - Dance - Short Lived

1998
Juice FM - 107 MHz - Garage - Short Lived
Passion FM - 106.2 MHz - Various - Still going, net station PassionRadioBristol.com

1999
Bonus FM - 100.6 MHz - Dance - Until 2000
Force FM - 105.6 MHz - Various - Until ?
Interference FM - 106.9 MHz - Activism - Until 2000

2000
Garage FM (Cardiff) - Various - Massive signal into Bristol from Wales - Garage, RnB - Until 2001

2001
Storm FM - 103.5 MHz - Dance - Short Lived

2003
Reality FM / Pukar Radio - 105.6 & 107 MHz - Various / Asian - Until 2004?

2004
BS1 Radio - 106.8 - Reggae, Soul, Hip Hop, Dance etc. - Until 2007

2008
Farpoint - 105 MHz - Dance / Electronica - One broadcast for 3 hours on a friday evening in the summer.

2009
Bonus FM - 100.6 MHz - Dance - Until Oct 2010

2010
Total Radio - 105 MHz - Dance / Electronica - A few 2 hour broadcasts going into 2011.
Information denied - 108 MHz - Very local broadcast to a small area for a Christmas light display. Yearly thing.

2011
Rage FM (Taunton) - 100.6 MHz - Dance etc - Not heard in Bristol of course, but has featured Bristol DJs.

2012
NTR - 105 MHz - Dance - Few hours test transmission on morning of 09092012.
Rapido Radio - Information denied!
181.FM Soul Stream Relay - Information denied!

2014
UnID (possibly called Tunez) - 105 MHz - Dance / Urban - Also on 105MHz in Cardiff and 101.7MHz in Manchester briefly. Cardiff had RDS displaying various text including 'LOOKOUT', 'COMING' and 'TUNEZ'.

2015
Frenzy FM (Gloucestershire) - 87.6 MHz - Dance - Bank Holidays only

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