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Premier FM – Essex

Premier FM broadcast from the Southend-on-Sea area of Essex from Spring 2001 until their closure in 2003. Their signal could be heard in areas from South London and parts of Kent to well up the east...

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Fantasy FM – London

Fantasy FM started broadcasting from North London in August 1989 on 98.6 FM. They played Acid, Rave & Hardcore music, all of which was massive at the time, and was also dominating the mainstream...

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Centreforce Radio – London

Centreforce Radio started life in May 1989 broadcasting from East London on 88.3 FM. The station was setup with the help of Andy Swallow and a few other people from Echo’s, which was a small night club...

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Radio Free Birmingham / County Radio

In August 1979 two pirate stations started broadcasting. One was the short-lived Radio Active, while the other was someone relaying tapes of London’s Radio Jackie on 227 MW. A meeting was arranged, and...

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Joy FM – Sheffield

Joy FM broadcast dance music from Sheffield in the 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right...

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PCRL – Birmingham

In the early 80s Cecil Morris was running Rising Star Records and Management from a shop at 151 Dudley Road Birmingham. He also branched out in to running a venue (The Elite) and a magazine (Rasta...

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Naked FM

Naked FM was a radio station that broadcast on 93.00 FM, between 1994 and 1995. Its founder was Kevin James, AKA DJ 24K from Brockley, London. At the time, DJ 24K was playing House and Garage in the...

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Paradise City Radio (PCR) – Bradford

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...

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Dream FM – Leeds

Dream FM was one of the most well known pirates in Yorkshire during the 1990’s. It boasted over 30 DJ’s and a range of different dance music styles such as house, dub, trance, hardcore, funk, soul,...

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Inner City Radio – Leeds

Inner City Radio broadcast dance & rock music from Leeds in the 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this...

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Frontline FM – Manchester

Frontline FM broadcast a wide variety of black and dance music in Manchester during the 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save...

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NRG FM – Leeds

DJ Shock was a teenager in the mid 80s, gripped in the fever of hip-hop and breakdance culture. Shock, along with friends Countdown, DJ Greenpeace & Chippy formed a crew and began learning to cut,...

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UK Radio – Wolverhampton

UK Radio was the West Midlands longest running pirate station, operating from 1978 to 2003. The station would probably still be going today had it not been for the sad death of the stations founder,...

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Pitch FM – Sheffield

Pitch FM broadcast dance music for Sheffield in the mid 1990s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right...

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Flex FM – Ipswich

Flex FM broadcast programmes for the Afro-Caribbean community in Ipswich. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list...

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Groove FM – Dudley

Groove FM was the second pirate radio station to be brought on air by Scott Davis, the founder of Exile FM. From the very start Groove had many of the old Exile presenters on board, which were joined...

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Radio Free London (RFL)

Radio Free London first came on the air in August 1968, on the first anniversary of the closure of Britain’s offshore stations. The broadcast was so successful, they decided to start regular broadcasts...

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Dream FM – Leeds

Dream FM was one of the most well known pirates in Yorkshire during the 1990’s. It boasted over 30 DJ’s and a range of different dance music styles such as house, dub, trance, hardcore, funk, soul,...

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Fantasy FM – Sheffield

Fantasy FM broadcast from Sheffield on 101.9 FM. If anyone has any more information on Fantasy FM, please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To download, right click and ‘Save As’ Audio Fantasy FM –...

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Pulse 90.6 FM – London

Pulse 90.6 FM broadcast dance music to London between 1991 and 1995. More on Pulse 90.6 FM can be found here: Pulse 90.6 FM Facebook page Downloads To download, right click and ‘Save As’ Artwork Logo...

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