memories of geeking? & freak radio piracy
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A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
one of these little bastards stabbed me in the guts... I think my brother's friends arranged it so that I would storm off all pissed and they could poke smot...
Nuxie is in Portland shopping with Gwen and another of their OML buddies.
Santina is positively rocking out to SCREAMING LORD SUTCH "Fallen in Love with a Monster Man!"
Radio Sutch
The first of the fort based offshore radio stations was set up by pop singer Screaming Lord Sutch. He briefly used a fishing boat, as he recalled when interviewed for the Offshore Echo’s documentary CD "The Radio Forts"
We rented that when it had finished his rounds of fishing so he was fishing and trawling in the mornings and then 12 o'clock onwards it was a radio station. The only trouble was it was covered with fish scales and it stunk to heaven and when all the reporters and press people come on they nearly all killed themselves skating about. But we used that for quite some time until the trawler had its insurance taken away because they said that they insured it as a fishing boat and not for a commercial radio station. The guy panicked and said "You've got to get another boat", or something, you know. We tried to get some other boats round the same harbour, but had no luck. So in the end on one of our last broadcasts out at sea we noticed these disused forts. We said "Well why can't we go on them ? " and he said "Well I don't know, I don't know who they belong to ". We made some enquiries and found out that they were ex. government forts, which hadn't been used for many years. It'd been abandoned out there as far as the government was concerned, so we just took them over and claimed squatters' rights. .
Screaming Lord Sutch had been using the fishing boat Cornucopia, until he discovered the Shivering Sands army fort. Radio Sutch, the first of the fort based offshore radio stations started on 27th May 1964 on 194 metres (1542khz). The first record – Jack the Ripper, sung of course by the Screaming Lord himself.
Before all this, Sutch had held a press conference. He recalled… I said "the time's about three o'clock" and we all switch on and "you'll hear it on this frequency". Little did they know but we switched on and it come blurting out. They said "God, that's loud! That's fantastic!". The press were really impressed, so was the TV, all the lot. But what they didn't know is just literally about 300 yards away was Reg. Calvert, just over the brow of a hill, under a tree with all the stuff... He was just doing it all on land! So no wonder that day we were louder than the BBC and Luxembourg and everybody. They never did suss out that. We got a tremendous write up "great output", "great power" we had and everything and the guy was just 300 yards away from them.
Three days later the government issued a statement saying that Sutch was trespassing on War Office property… We had threats with the Navy at one stage, the British government told them to get us off. Sutch remembered… We refused to get off and we had all the press behind us. In the middle of threatening us and telling us to get off, they just pulled up anchor, this huge battleship, and cleared off.
The headline next day was "Lord Sutch turns back the Navy" which was true in a way for some reason or other they changed their mind, they said "get off these forts, you're trespassing" We said "we're not, squatters' rights, and we're claiming this as our own island now". We’ll call it "Sutch Islands" or whatever. They must have radioed through to headquarters or whatever, and in the end, they decided it was too much of a hassle to get us off. So we stayed. We were getting a lot of respect for being there because we had the guts to take them over and run the radio station from it.
SLS is GOD
love live SLS
rest in Peace SLS
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
one of these little bastards stabbed me in the guts... I think my brother's friends arranged it so that I would storm off all pissed and they could poke smot...
Nuxie is in Portland shopping with Gwen and another of their OML buddies.
Santina is positively rocking out to SCREAMING LORD SUTCH "Fallen in Love with a Monster Man!"
Radio Sutch
The first of the fort based offshore radio stations was set up by pop singer Screaming Lord Sutch. He briefly used a fishing boat, as he recalled when interviewed for the Offshore Echo’s documentary CD "The Radio Forts"
We rented that when it had finished his rounds of fishing so he was fishing and trawling in the mornings and then 12 o'clock onwards it was a radio station. The only trouble was it was covered with fish scales and it stunk to heaven and when all the reporters and press people come on they nearly all killed themselves skating about. But we used that for quite some time until the trawler had its insurance taken away because they said that they insured it as a fishing boat and not for a commercial radio station. The guy panicked and said "You've got to get another boat", or something, you know. We tried to get some other boats round the same harbour, but had no luck. So in the end on one of our last broadcasts out at sea we noticed these disused forts. We said "Well why can't we go on them ? " and he said "Well I don't know, I don't know who they belong to ". We made some enquiries and found out that they were ex. government forts, which hadn't been used for many years. It'd been abandoned out there as far as the government was concerned, so we just took them over and claimed squatters' rights. .
Screaming Lord Sutch had been using the fishing boat Cornucopia, until he discovered the Shivering Sands army fort. Radio Sutch, the first of the fort based offshore radio stations started on 27th May 1964 on 194 metres (1542khz). The first record – Jack the Ripper, sung of course by the Screaming Lord himself.
Before all this, Sutch had held a press conference. He recalled… I said "the time's about three o'clock" and we all switch on and "you'll hear it on this frequency". Little did they know but we switched on and it come blurting out. They said "God, that's loud! That's fantastic!". The press were really impressed, so was the TV, all the lot. But what they didn't know is just literally about 300 yards away was Reg. Calvert, just over the brow of a hill, under a tree with all the stuff... He was just doing it all on land! So no wonder that day we were louder than the BBC and Luxembourg and everybody. They never did suss out that. We got a tremendous write up "great output", "great power" we had and everything and the guy was just 300 yards away from them.
Three days later the government issued a statement saying that Sutch was trespassing on War Office property… We had threats with the Navy at one stage, the British government told them to get us off. Sutch remembered… We refused to get off and we had all the press behind us. In the middle of threatening us and telling us to get off, they just pulled up anchor, this huge battleship, and cleared off.
The headline next day was "Lord Sutch turns back the Navy" which was true in a way for some reason or other they changed their mind, they said "get off these forts, you're trespassing" We said "we're not, squatters' rights, and we're claiming this as our own island now". We’ll call it "Sutch Islands" or whatever. They must have radioed through to headquarters or whatever, and in the end, they decided it was too much of a hassle to get us off. So we stayed. We were getting a lot of respect for being there because we had the guts to take them over and run the radio station from it.
SLS is GOD
love live SLS
rest in Peace SLS
