Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 18, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2013 Haven't you got a nightclubbing phase to go through 10 years too late or something? Â I was going to ask you the same about when your balls were scheduled to drop. Â Â Â Â But yes, local radio. In London, I have to say it's pretty awful. LBC is pretty much the Daily Mail on the air. My flatmate, a tailor who works in his room, listens to it almost religiously, saying it gives him the feeling like he's in the workshop. I don't know how he stays sane. Â Other than that, it's either Greek radio (which I don't understand, but throws me back to my childhood, when the surrounding neighbourhood was mostly Greek/Cypriot), or absolutely shite pirate stations playing shite dubstep/DnB/reggae that's meant to sound "underground", but to me is the audio equivalent of a piss-stinking underpass festooned with dog shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 18, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2013 I was going to ask you the same about when your balls were scheduled to drop. Â If my voice is as deep and rich as it is without me going through puberty and being a hairy bearded six foot 27 year old, I dread to think what'll happen when it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 18, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2013 I was going to ask you the same about when your balls were scheduled to drop. Â If my voice is as deep and rich as it is without me going through puberty and being a hairy bearded six foot 27 year old, I dread to think what'll happen when it does. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Coconut Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 I was going to ask you the same about when your balls were scheduled to drop. Â If my voice is as deep and rich as it is without me going through puberty and being a hairy bearded six foot 27 year old, I dread to think what'll happen when it does. No doubt you'll start car surfing, playing basketball and get Parkinson's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Atlantic 252, there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 18, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2013 Yeah, Atlantic 252 became a TalkShite ripoff called Team Talk 252 (because one TalkShite wasn't enough). It failed miserably if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 18, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2013 I only remember TeamTalk 252 because the great James H Reeve was on it briefly. I suppose listeners weren't all that enthralled by EXCLUSIVE LIVE BRITISH BASKETBALL LEAGUE COVERAGE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 18, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2013 It flopped for Channel 4 in the 80s, and it flopped again on radio. Will BBL never not do shit on TV? (No, I saw a game live and it was turd). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 The Atlantic 252 Wikipedia page is quite an interesting, short little read, taking on a bit of a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted February 18, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 18, 2013 If it's the pirates you're interested in, I suggest reading up on Radio Northsea International. Really interesting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 (edited) If it's the pirates you're interested in, I suggest reading up on Radio Northsea International. Really interesting stuff. Ah, was that the one coming from a man made platform in the sea, somewhere near Holland? I did have a spell some time last year of becoming temporarily fascinated with pirate radio, pirate TV, and illegitimate states (such as the Principality of Sealand, amongst others). If I remember rightly, the guys behind Radio Northsea International were also behind a pirate TV station, serving the Holland area. Â Things like this have always fascinated me. I find things like the Max Headroom incident and even short wave espionage broadcasts from number stations to be of immense interest, too. The mystery surrounding such topics really attracts me to them. Â Â Â Edit Edited February 22, 2013 by Richie Freebird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 (edited) I came across a regarding Radio Northsea International. The first part plays some welcome messages from the station, and goes on to feature news reports from both British and (I think) Dutch TV. At 6:27 we are presented with a statement read out on the air, disrespecting the British government! All of this is nicely supplemented with moving footage of the colourful vessel itself.  Sticking with the pirate / offshore station theme, Radio Caroline is actually still going, for those interested, the station can be heard live at this link. Caroline is another one with an interesting history. I've read through the whole history as presented on the website in the past and found it to be a cool story with plenty of twists and turns along the way. Various links to different eras of Caroline's history can be followed from here. Reading through all of that lot really helps to get across the cause behind these outlaw stations, especially to someone like me who wasn't yet around in the heydays of these offshore stations.  Some really cool music on Caroline still. I've had it on for a while tonight. Edited February 22, 2013 by Richie Freebird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon needle Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 To the guy who posted the Good Time Oldies - Thanks! Â This is making my day go quicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 To the guy who posted the Good Time Oldies - Thanks! My pleasure. For a time last year when I was heavily into my artwork projects,Good Time Oldies was my first choice radio station for evenings at the drawing board. The up-tempo, happy nature of rock & roll and doo wop acted as quite the motivational tool for my drawings. Â Â Â Going back to the pirate discussion, after Butch suggested researching the Radio Northsea story, I discovered an awesome audio documentary on youtube. This is a pretty long listen (almost 2 hours I think) but the time actually flies by when listening. It's really well put together too, with talking head interviews, clips from the air during the most notorious moments of the station's history, jingles, clips from news reports, and an extensive run-down of the history of the station. A fascinating story. Â Click the photo below for a link to part 1 of the doccumentary on youtube. It's really, really good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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