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May 1, 2004 at 2:38 pm

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General Lighting

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I will at least congratulate Louise for having the decency to ask us first = many journos would have just taken the lazy option and got stock footage from the Police of a rave being stopped or evidence gathering footage 🙁
May 1, 2004 at 4:27 pm

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BioTech

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Thats true. Thanks for that courtesy Louise.

Sorry we can’t help but you must understand why.
May 9, 2004 at 12:36 pm

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General Lighting

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If Louise is still reading here and wants to know further why she had such a “hostile” response (or others want to know why we are wary of the media) – well it looks that another producer from her own employers has already spoilt things. The following came from Squatjuice

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right, i was watching sum program about the crack problem in this country, well, London in particular on my m8s satelite tv. was on BBC 3 or 4.

they went to a squat party with a camera and filmed it all, the kids, the dealers and, of course, the crack smokers.

whilst the reporter was distancing middle england from the ‘horrors’ of illegal goings on, i distinctly remember himsaying something like, this is just 1 party, on a saturday night, and there are loads of these, every weekend.

not good!

worse still this journo has now thoroughly fucked things up for any positive minded person wanting to make a video in London; they will be viewed, unsurprisingly, with suspicion….
May 15, 2004 at 2:50 am

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BBC 3 doing a thing on the Underground scene, no chance!

Anyone that agrees to this is a fucking sell out!
May 15, 2004 at 10:03 am

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General Lighting

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the BBC have been taking underground ideas and regulating them / watering them down and bringing them within the system since before I was born!

Radio 1 (the BBC’s first “yoof” channel) was only formed after they had got the Government to shut down the pirate radio stations of the 1960s counterculture (the ones on boats)
May 21, 2004 at 8:31 am

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BioTech

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Funny you should mention that. There is one parked about 20 yards in front of me, I could hit it with a stone.

….a pirate radio boat that is.
May 21, 2004 at 8:48 am

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General Lighting

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Originally posted by BioTech
Funny you should mention that. There is one parked about 20 yards in front of me, I could hit it with a stone.

….a pirate radio boat that is.

Probably Radio Caroline which has been downsized into a 1 month RSL [1] on AM (1 watt ERP TX which will probably only transmit to East Anglia if that unless you wish to monitor the station with the sort of 50m long wire antenna used when wireless sets had valves…

parked? Can only assume then that this vessel is on a trailer as well rather than afloat 🙁

Although it could even be the BBC doing a “legal pirate” show with people from Caroline?

Just shows what can happen to the underground as the Establishment strikes back.

Ask some older people (40/50+) and many will tell you that Caroline was part of a counterculture movement very similar to the underground party scene.. It was good for a bit but (and I know the former TX engineer who lives in REading) the businessmen from Essex all wanted a piece, there was violence between stations including use of firearms (sounds familiar like UK garage crew?) and the Govt got heavy…

Fair play to them for keeping the original spirit going at least I suppose…

[1] A short term legal radio licence given out by the British Office of Communications (OfCom); after stations shell out loads of money and fill in reams of paperwork. They are supposed to be streamlining this process, and not before time…
May 21, 2004 at 11:29 am

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BioTech

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Well. Its moored then. I knew I was technically incorrect but parked sounded nicer. 🙂

I’m not sure what it is. Hang on one second and i shall go look at the code…..

1224 Am.

Don’t think its broadcasting though.
May 26, 2004 at 8:50 pm

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General Lighting

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Originally posted by BioTech
Well. Its moored then. I knew I was technically incorrect but parked sounded nicer. 🙂

And there was I thinking – well he’s from East Anglia and would definitely be wise to matters nautical 😀

Had visions of this boat being on a trailer and being driven along the A14. Glad to see whoevers doing it hasn’t sunk that low.

Must be a station for the oldies though, AM would be crap for modern dance music.
May 26, 2004 at 9:59 pm

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BioTech

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You cheeky so and so.

I’ll have you know I took my lilo to the seas by the time I was 4.
June 1, 2004 at 4:48 pm

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Blaze

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we had some experience with the writing press (I live in Holland, near Amsterdam)
there was a party two weeks ago
http://goa.trance.fotopic.net/c182668.html
and the local press was there as well(it was the opening of the cultural season of a park)
all the press could write about was about the mushrooms that people took (most of the article)
only a little bit about the music, deco and friendly people there

(sorry for my bad english, it is not my native language)
June 2, 2004 at 10:46 am

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BioTech

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Your English is outstanding, no need to apologise. (better than some english peoples command of the language in fact!)

Most UK born citizens don’t even make the effort to talk other languages (me included) but we expect others to be able to talk ours, which is rather selfish.

Touching on what you have said though: Its a shame it works that way but the drugs issue will sell more papers to the majority of readers who consider themselves ‘disgusted’ by such behaviour. Where as an article about positive efforts to bring people together and enjoy themselves sadly don’t.
June 5, 2004 at 3:42 pm

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globalloon

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Originally posted by General Lighting

Had visions of this boat being on a trailer and being driven along the A14. Glad to see whoevers doing it hasn’t sunk that low.

Now then, I’ve never set up a broadcast, but i do remember some good ol’ boys who used to drive around on a hill/ridge above exeter/torbay etc on sunday evenings in their van, complete with decks and power source broadcasting v good come-down sounds.

I think they had a fixed broadcast (?) antenna and sent a signal to that using some kind of CB or similar devie, so if the OB found the source they wouldn’t loose the whole rig.

Bit of a laff
June 5, 2004 at 8:16 pm

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Originally posted by BioTech
Your English is outstanding, no need to apologise. (better than some english peoples command of the language in fact!)

Most UK born citizens don’t even make the effort to talk other languages (me included) but we expect others to be able to talk ours, which is rather selfish.

Too true, nice that people on here actually use english, rather than yoof slang, and I’m currently trying to learn German, flying the flag for Britain in Europe!
Ich hoffe, dass Sie ein gutes (?!) Wochenende haben.
Peace
June 7, 2004 at 11:44 am

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BioTech

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Originally posted by MKP

Ich hoffe, dass Sie ein gutes (?!) Wochenende haben.
Peace

My weekend was crap actually. Spent it in bed. Ill. 🙁

Or should I say….

Mein Wochenende war crap wirklich. Verbraucht es im Bett. Krank
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