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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:36 PM
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Battries on my walkman died on the way to work this morning. So no hardcore to make the train go quicker. Still enough to work the radio though so I tuned into kiss for the first time for a couple of years.
After about 5 minutes I realised why I'd gone over to tapes in the first place.
No slight to Street and BamBam. They hadnt changed a bit and made me laugh out loud on the way over London Bridge.
The Tunes, however, were nothing short of shocking. A few years ago, Kiss was a feirce station. You had every chance of hearing Valley of the Shadows at 8am on a monday morning It was what made it different to the commercial ****e on the other stations.
This morning I was treated to a non stop commercial pop drivel extravaganza. It consisted mainly of a "RnB" (in the loosest sense of the word) back beat while some manufactured plastic pop bint driveled on and on about how sexy she was and what "A fine booty" she had. **** knows what it all really meant cos I aint a clue.
If that wasnt bad enough then at the end the fookin ketchup song came on!! [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] It was enough to make me want to plant some semtex in their studio for crimes against music.
"Sorry Street, sorry Bam you used to be underground, but now you've gone commercial you've gotta die. Nothing personal, its just the way it has to be." *sets timer and runs away*
It all went gurgling down the crapper after Gordon Mac, the station founder, jumped ship.
I didnt even recognise the station I was listening to this morning.
rant and 100% justified musical snobbery over.
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:38 PM
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I agree mate....In my opinion in went down the ****ter when they sacked Steve Jackson....
The playlist is the same as crapital 95.8fm......
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:41 PM
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Money rules Kiss FM now

Keep it underground, keep it real, keep it pirate
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:48 PM
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I spent the whole of last week "keeping it real", actually. Been a bit too busy to continue this week though - it's quite time-consuming.
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:51 PM
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Every station has gone the same way, they all seem to be under the control of the record companies and their marketing departments these days.
Then those self same record companies complain about sales being down because of Napster, etc & pirating, it is nothing to do with that, if they stop peddling the same old recycled sh1te, bring out some decent tunes by some decent artists and people might actually buy be inspired to part with their money:angry: Nobody is going to shell out their hard earned on the same Cathy Dennis tune (I use that term loosely) that they have been listening to for the last ten years, just because it has been recorded by the latest Tone-Deaf Non-entity from Popstars:angry:

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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:52 PM
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You're obviously not doing it right then Mark

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 10/23/2002 12:55:10 PM]
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 12:53 PM
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if they stop peddling the same old recycled sh1te, bring out some decent tunes by some decent artists and people might actually buy
Doubt it. It'll just be less of a waste of bandwidth to download something decent.
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 07:48 PM
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Agree with evo steve jackson was
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 09:01 PM
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Kiss was bought out by EMAP (Own Capital, Magic, Max Power, Revs MCN etc etc etc)

Overnight it became utter ****e. Got rid Of Jackson and replace him with that **** BamBam. (Hated Streetboy originally) Cahnges the playlist. I heard a rumour a few years back they dont play anything over 2 years old now. (SO no Hype Fugees remix !!!)

did anyone read about the Aussie tossbag Robin Banks and his 2 am hijacked show. I can honestly say I dont listen to Kiss very much, might flick accross occasionally. Support the Pirates! its the way foward

I thank u!

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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 09:05 PM
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Check out the live feeds on http://www.pirate-radio.co.uk for some decent tunes.
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 10:20 PM
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KISS FM, yep it's just a pop station now. They used to play all sorts of music now it's amazing the crap music they put out now. I don't listen to it anymore.
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Old Oct 23, 2002 | 11:50 PM
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Astraboy, any more developments on www.your-names-not-down.com ?
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 11:05 AM
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My co promoter Davespice is in charge of that one mate. We have recordings of the whole of Astradance II. Unfortuantly his tape deck was placed on top of the amp and overheated. this caused the recordings to comeout at 2/3rds normal speed. What hes doing is uploading each set onto his PC then increasing the speed till its acceptable, then converting it to MP3 format. After hes done the lot Astradance II will be on the net for all to listen.
Astradance I is already on there. Go have a listen mate. May I suggest Hattrixx and Desire's set. Triple bossak on toast.
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 11:10 AM
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Triple bossak on toast.
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 12:01 PM
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[non raver speak]
very good set.
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 12:30 PM
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Just d/loaded RaveGirl MP3 from your site - well good

Rip the lot on a CD for us will you? I've only got ISDN & it takes ages to d/load files that big

I'll get some more tonight after I've gone to bed...

Nice one

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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 03:21 PM
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Funny I was saying exactly the same to the missus the other day, I remember when KISS was a pirate station and if someone had told me that they will be playing Kylie manogue in ten years i would have laughed my head off.

It is sad but you can't blame the guy for doing it he's now minted.
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 07:06 PM
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Astraboy, tried it but it keeps saying the server is busy. Is this just a temp. hitch?

Cheers

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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 08:14 PM
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Support the pirates?

There aren't that many good ones out there any more either....

The rise of Pop Garage has seen to that......

Bring back Dream FM - proper underground station.....
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Old Oct 24, 2002 | 08:25 PM
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bling bling??? (dont no what it means but its all our local pirate station seems to say?)!!!
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 11:17 AM
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Bring back instruments, and scrap all this electronically derived dribble! God, i only came to steal the corner, and now i'm off on one of my 'I hate dance music' ones....
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 11:34 AM
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<Bring back Dream FM - proper underground station..... >
Innit mate!
Dream FM, 107.6FM.
The happier sounds of london.
1994-1997.
I've still got tapes of Dream. on a stick.
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 11:39 AM
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It's all gravy if you ask me.

(got not a clue what that means by the way, but it seemed like it might be appropriate)

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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 02:15 PM
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still got tapes of dream
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 04:53 PM
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Yeah, me too...

Off to see the missus now, and the old jalopy's only got a tape player.... so in goes Wise and Zookie B.... and maybe a bit of Spinback and Ruff
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Old Oct 25, 2002 | 09:13 PM
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"Sounds of the Tom Thumb, sounds of the Lively". Good old Dream FM, I remember Dj Influence doing some wicked sets.
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Old Oct 26, 2002 | 11:59 AM
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I liked Dream. Especailly near the end when it became more house orientated. Remember reading a interview in a mag with them saying the only way they made money was to put on events, and that there was more demand for house events rather than Hardcore/DnB type nights.

But since were in reminicing mode. Who can remeber the FM number for DON FM? That was the 1st Pirate station I ever listened to!
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Old Oct 26, 2002 | 12:50 PM
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105.7? & redeye was 106.0

green apple anyone?
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Old Oct 26, 2002 | 01:17 PM
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could you post a link to astraboys site wouldn't mind having a look see (and a listen )


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Old Oct 26, 2002 | 01:37 PM
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DON FM I think 105.7 first ever pirate station I listened to as well.
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