Pirate Radio Turf Wars On The Dial In London & Essex

[@ExposureTv444]

Great Uncle K is the man 💯❤🔥🔥🔥💪🙏👍✅ Just shared 👍

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@ZadenZane]

I remember Eruption FM. I loved that station but I couldn't always get it properly in North London. They played some of the best music🤪‼

[@ChrisTheHulk]

I first stumbled across pirate radio in 2006 from my old house in rural Buckinghamshire. 87.5 uk's finest. Brilliant station. Followed them for years. Listened every weekend. Have several clips from inside their studio as a friend of mine DJ'd for them for a bit

[@rissonedacrissone]

Best station I ever played on hands down biggest signal ever in pirate radio and had 1000s of listeners r.I.p Lee John aka Tec1

[@tehgerbil]

Those clips may be of interest to the Pirate Radio Archive channel, I'm sure they'd appreciate those!

[@Phil-M0KPH]

What a great insight from Uncle K. It was good of him to find the time to share his experiences.

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@andymate2006]

When I went to England is 2017. I got a radio and started scanning. I found SO many stations I was really astonished. I picked up Cyndicut FM and really enjoyed listening to it. I have video of it. I ran a pirate radio station here in Australia in 2010 but I was shut down within a month but I wasn’t raided. I just had a friendly knock on my door just one guy with a device in his hand and a badge from the ACMA. ACMA stands for Australian Communications and Media Authority. I had to shut it down and had to surrender the transmitter. I just got a warning letter which I still have today. Before then I ran a pirate TV station back in the mid to late 90’s. I ran it for over 3 years but then I got caught.

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Big up those that know about Y2K FM 90.6, they actually won the UKG awards one year. Y2K FM had Heartless Crew, Bass Inject Crew, SLT Mob, Outlaws, Wesley 2play, DJ Influence & MC Skanker, DJ Pioneer, Unusual Suspects, Partners In Vibes, Super Raggo Crew, Boomskat Crew...

[@gavinstirling7088]

That's crazy how cat and mouse the fight was between the pirate stations and the authorities. Aerials down drain pipes! Reminds me of the WW2 auxiliary units! I presume ofcom / DTI had equipment to detect the transmitters.

[@ianharling9569]

Absolutely brilliant mate.I started in Pirate radio in 1978 (yea I'm 62 yrs "young" now) I loved every minute of it. 73.G7HFS/PA3IKH.

[@FNUKSTER1366]

Brilliant video Lewis, was around the pirate scene from the late end 80's to the current year , I'm based in Kent so London and Essex used too blast throughout the fm band 😀 Remembering the stations Centreforce 88.3, cyndicut, pulse, horizon, and many more to mention in the last 30 year's lol 73's also a ham and cber 10.10

[@paulgilson2347]

Grew up with 90's pirates, Elite, Charge, Klass and Syndicate...ended up on Desire playing oldskool but wouldn't have done it without that scene, big up.

[@jon-paulgrainger1303]

Dudee. UKSFINEST 87.5 some bangers wow that brought back some memories. Was listening in Fleet Hampshire 👍

[@cfort7322]

Great to hear Killer give some props to the late Lee John, aka Tech from UKs Finest 87.5! We found him a studio next to ours in Berkshire and helped him set things up there, especially the early online transmissions for that too. Had some really banging broadcasts on there, hitting places like Northampton, Luton, Portsmouth etc. I was in the room when him and Killer were blasting at each other on the phone about nicking each others transmitters. Was quite crazy really but will look back at that with fond memories. Got some old broadcast recordings from back then so may dig them out for old times sake

[@rissonedacrissone]

Uks finest the biggest signal ever to known in uk pirate radio r.I.p tec1 when I mc on there I had about 2000 messages in an hour

[@98jonesd]

Absolutely superb, can’t wait for the next one!

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@mickjohnson7388]

Special k acting all Normal n shit ..shame he didn't stick to it ..ya wouldn't belive he was threatening to burn family's alive months ago ..ay ..Respect to you tho Lad ..All the best 💯👊

[@7VSF-SR72-OA-X33]

Little blast from the past this! Royal court tower block, Brooke house, South fields, Manor trading estate, Temple Farm industrial estate... Wonder if many of those old crews and pirate stations still broadcast in some form or another? Forgetting much, but do recall a few names: Charge FM, Renegade FM, TXR Radio, Storm FM...

[@sparkidee]

Lush, Premier, Essence

[@boilerroombob]

Tell us about brooke house m8 lol

[@matambale]

Outstanding, Lewis. Thank you.

[@bungle3912]

Love Uncle K. He’s such a funny dude.

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@robezee]

I was playing on some of the stations mentioned and was robbed of the transmitter at least 3 times while playing a late night set! good to hear the truth about what was going on in the background! fkg annoying at the time lol big up's the Berkshire Pirates.

[@boilerroombob]

Kieth the rig builder legend lol.....Great to see the stories Lewis from those who were there ..well done Lewis for this historic moment x

[@boilerroombob]

@Image radio he could talk for England for sure ....and his pirate radio stories of escape and evasion of the dti were a great listen....glad you purchased from him though....are you still doing the am tx kits

[@csproductions]

I remember tuning in to Subjam 104,7 in north London in 2006 first introducing me to D'n'B. I think I even remember hearing Pendulum - Tarantula which blew my mind at the time.

[@philsimprezawrx]

Keep up the good work it's a pleasure to watch your video's 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Daniel-lm5ry]

Great channel man. I enjoy all the information you’ve researched

[@BeatboxNorwich]

Been subbed for ages and this is what I've been waiting for 😁

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@jonhoyles714]

Wicked info mate nice to hear the history was to busy raving lol 😂 x

[@jameslock9275]

Trilogy 87.5 I remember going to the studio in hurst in 2003

[@piggo64]

Loving it ❤️

[@failedrockstar]

been waiting for this :)

[@Goat.Herder]

Glad you done this one mate, I remember watching the original documentary back then, it was a great documentary. Whether they knew it or not, Y2K reached Diss on a clear day. I used to listen before I moved down south.

[@matth7272]

Interesting video, great to hear

[@cesarposadasatamusic]

awwwww yea i could watch hours of Pirate Radio history docus!

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@smokey91820]

Trilogy was the shit, good times

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Big up for this!! Respect!

[@thedjantz4685]

Blimey Lee John "orgriginal technician" blast from the past. Didn't know he'd passed on, bet he gets out well from up there, even on a little single dipole RIP. Won't lie had one of his rigs out of that tree!! Only climbed it once weren't ever gonna do that again! Must of been off his rocker to keep climbing that beast! I remember the pointblank crew as well had a little run in in the late 90s with them, biddle, Dave H, etc.. Their rig was in a tower block in Slough you could see it from the M4. They tracked me down and followed me about finding out where I lived, worked, kept calling my parents and brothers land lines. They found out I was on a CB so they tailed me keyed up on channel 19 and told me they were coming at me "point blank range". I was only a kid and I realised they were behind me so thought best thing to do was to pull over and chat to them. They were actually a nice bunch of blokes that didn't like how we ran our station and a couple of our DJ's had slagged them off saying their DJ's were to serious and didn't sound like they actually enjoyed being "on air". Loved tracking stations down or looking for new sites. Those were the days!! Cheers Lewis great KZbin channel for us radio geeks and ex pirates. I remember uncle k on tower block dreams great to reminisce. Long live the pirates!! I miss the pirate days, climbing tower blocks, installing rigs, band 1 links then moving to microwave links. Anyone rember the "legal" sellers of rigs? Broadcast warehouse, Veronica kits. 1W PLL's running into a burner (amp). I miss those aluminium boxes with a hole cut out for a fan. Still got a couple kicking about somewhere. Won't be firing them up anytime soon though those days have been and gone.

[@VINNIEDNB]

The furthest block in the image @ 0:18 is essex tower in penge south london and was home to boss fm 92.6 in the early 90s

[@COASTALWAVESWIRES]

Great stuff! Looking forward to more!

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@bugler75]

Class, roll on part two!!

[@RingwayManchester]

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[@TexasPrisonStories]

Another good one from Manchester Ringway

[@bassangler73]

Very cool!

[@scottic_wss]

Wicked video, nice one for the upload 👍🏻 interested insight

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@wisteela]

Fantastic

[@paulmorrey733]

Thanks Lewis

[@0gino0]

What a character Uncle K is I love him haha 😂

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@keithhayward8678]

Big up killa/uncle K true legend ✌️💚 bro

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@richard29415]

Where is MC Killer today? I remember hearing Y2K FM on 90.6 as late as 2006 and early 2007 in Kent, they were playing DJ Gregory - Attend 1.

[@coral-ci6zx]

Thanks!

[@JS-ks7hh]

Got to be a series here. V good

[@richardlongmore9301]

Shout out to all the life fm crew

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

Uncle K is honest and insightful. This is very important. Can you speak some other station owners like Randy Cee, Ricky D, Ramrod & 69, Sting, Geeneus, Eastman...

[@RingwayManchester]

Spoke to DJ rusher from Weekend rush, video tonight ;)

[@TakeMeBackPirateRadio]

@@RingwayManchester Bless how could I forget about DJ Rusher!! That sounds immense. Big up for all the hard work.

[@sichere]

DON FM - Be Don or Be Gone

[@mikeycraig8970]

Nah, it was Touchdown for me. Don once that had gone.

[@skibumtechie4283]

Bigup all my Cyndicut FM gang and all the Pirate soldiers from back in the day......DJ Nicol

[@BIGVLADP]

BIG UP UNCLE K 🇷🇺👑

[@lunarbluesmusic]

Great content Lewis if you cover the Manchester 90's Pirate stations hit me up RE: Ambient Fm 106.4 Fm some pirate wars for sure.

[@joeblow8593]

Wanna hear the next one, thanks and cheers from the ststes

[@RingwayManchester]

19:3 tomorrow my man

[@mfx1]

I worked with Pete Goodin and lets just say he wasn't well liked by many other field staff either. My speciality was devising methods and custom tools to get transmitters out of Sh*t pipes etc. and I'd have to say I got quite good at it and I think a lot of pirate operators would agree. There wasn't much I couldn't remove, many pirates will remember my large blue van. For me it wasn't personal or a vendetta I hated that it was just a job and an interesting challenge/game I'm friends with several ex. pirate DJs to this day. Re. putting transmitters down shafts, first they started using car jacks expanded against the side of the shaft with the transmitter hanging from it, easy to remove so they added security wheel nuts from cars welded onto the jack screw, didn't take long to defeat that, next was weld a hinged lid onto the top of the jack with a lock on it, that took a bit more time to figure out but I defeated it, there where times where we couldn't get them out, then we cut cables and also experimented with ways of permanently disabling the rig or at least key parts of it and just leaving it down the hole some of those methods where more successful than others, let just say that mains power down an RF feeder doesn't always end well ;-) I also abseiled down shafts, rode the top of lifts, climbed trees and radio masts can't deny it was fun.

[@mfx1]

@Uncle K the Reverend TBH I didn't do much work in Essex I was mainly South and North London which is probably why your rig stayed there 4 years ;-) No hard feelings.

[@mfx1]

@Uncle K the Reverend Actually I missed out a stage in car jack development when they obviously figured out one of our methods and put tubes round the wheel nuts to shield them. The poles got stolen from our van once but after a bit of negotiation they were returned.

[@mfx1]

@Uncle K the Reverend Might be a step too far to say how we defeated the locks but would be interested to know if you figured out how.

[@mfx1]

I can think of some very basic and simple stuff that would have made the locked doors a lot harder to defeat.

[@RingwayManchester]

Martin I’d love to chat with you, would you drop me an email? [e-mail]

[@MrAfroNick]

Big up Charge FM crew, Basildon 90.8. (Contemporary to Y2K)

[@RootsladyCodi]

Nice to see my flag hanging high❤️💛💚

[@totalrecone]

Can someone in the UK film industry turn these stories into a feature film? Please.

[@mfx1]

Happy to be a consultant for some of the technical aspects.

[@the.internet]

Too busy making films about drag queen story time for Netflix m8. The real content is right here!

[@Mike-H_UK]

Great video Lewis. Do I detect the start of a new series?

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@0161DO1]

Nice one U.K

[@jailtails6677]

Big up killer, scrumpy jack , monkey magic, raw elements crew, apex, alpha c, talk off town crew big up rinse fm and all Langley crew

[@wam2610]

👍

[@TheSlinq]

Haha rg58 down the poo pipe, heard some stories about that myself. Messy!

[@sparkidee]

Bet he's still trying to rush the bouncers and get his money back from Dyson and the coaches 😂😂😂 #SortItOut 😂

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@the.internet]

Yo killa that guy you namedrop called Martin kelly... I don't think his name was tec1 that was legend leejohn ( RIP ). That was tek aka technician from klass FM Essex & premier 886 like you say. Heard some stories about those boys over the years. What came of Martin kelly & miley and that lot. Heard tek used to do the retunes on stolen rigs but built himself some right sprog boxes. Been out of the country years & this interview has jogged some memories lol

[@RingwayManchester]

Tower Block Dreams Pirate Radio - Where Are They Now? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5fIZYWEr96hg6M

[@the.internet]

@Uncle K the Reverend o yeh what did he do to need to flee the uk then. Read he did time for running klass FM, dti claimed it took out ground control at an airport lol oops. Last time I visited home there wasnt really much on the dial and anything that was on was basically just a playlist...nobody seems to care about radio like back then, I guess cuz pirate radio can't really break much in the way of music anymore...or anyone who was passionate is long gone. Nice 1 for the memories Mr K

[@codesouthradio]

Decent

[@ransom-real-9282]

UNCLE K 👌 💯❤

[@carlarmstrong5572]

90.6 in late 80’s early 90’s was pulse then I’m sure magic then mission then y2k I think correct me if I’m wrong 👍

[@gibkcoc1]

Going back even further 90.6 TKO early 80’s. Wow showing my age. In the mix on 90.6 TKO👊🏻😂👊🏻😂🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️😂👊🏻😂👊🏻Bill Mitchell Jingles 👊🏻🏴‍☠️👊🏻

[@gibkcoc1]

@Uncle K the Reverend yeah K..Jonny Haywood and Keith Green had a lot to answer to on LWR🏴‍☠️80’s bangers….who’s about. You had Pete busting you and we had Gotz😂🏴‍☠️😂

[@the.internet]

Magic was 90.2 m8 the rest is correct

[@boilerroombob]

@@gibkcoc1 loved bill mitchell jingles just watched documentary on him "the man that fought pumas"

[@carlarmstrong5572]

Of course magic was 90.2 I think I remember the guy well spoken with blonde hair I can’t remember his bloody name 👍👍

[@daveg8htfadlibaudio250]

What a storey Lewis.

[@BeatboxNorwich]

Quite high wasn't it

[@pdsnpsnldlqnop3330]

Grinder and co from People Just Do Nothing and that documentary were as funny as each other. I thought the documentary was a spoof because I watched PJDN first. Even though it was BBC it was a good show. They have probably sold out since to become BBC famous like Goldie Looking Chain.

[@DnBclassictunes]

You know a lot grasshopper

[@knightstemplar8379]

Uncle K is a G..

[@RingwayManchester]

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[@NewFrontier90]

Harlow all over this.

[@newpotatoes]

K 💥✌️

[@EastAngliaUK]

is this the first time being on camera

[@RingwayManchester]

Me or him?

[@EastAngliaUK]

@@RingwayManchester not sure seen you on camera before but not watched all the vids.

[@RingwayManchester]

Yeah I’m in lots of them mate, mostly the product reviews

[@petesmith2234]

Interesting stuff, I live on the south coast but regularly worked on pmr radio systems in London for the past 25 years and always entertained myself by checking out the pirate stations whilst driving around. I don’t think I’ve been on any London tower block which doesn’t have the remains of an antenna chopped up by OFCOM laying on the roof somewhere. Have occasionally come across‘ ‘live’ transmitters, but have no desire to cause any problems and leave them be. Good to hear Point Blank mentioned, always banging tunes, audio was always very crisp and signal was something else. Heard them on my way home down the A3 almost to Portsmouth once. Rarely hear them mentioned though.

[@gibkcoc1]

Point Blank had a banging set up. Big Power tranny, super antennas. Wonder who designed and built them🤫🤷🏻👊🏻🏴‍☠️👊🏻who’s about

[@BaysideShrimp]

Korrupt fm. Love it or slump it

[@mikeycraig8970]

I didnt know pirates were still going let alone still booming at turn of this century. The height for me was about 91-94. When breakbeat hardcore split into gloomy jungle and that happy hardcore shyte i stopped listening. Loved touchdown FM until it went, didnt like Don FM as much but being in Surrey, the middle of Surrey too, we difnt have a lot of choice.