freak fm york

[radionortheast]

been listening to this, the first recording, lot of the music is from 10 years earlier, sounds like they were on the internet…I hear m people playing.
https://www.piratearchive.co.uk/yorkshi ... r-2004.mp3
I can’t remember hearing it over fm,I guess there would of been real radio blocking the frequency. The other recording had joy division, then the streets, then went into dance mix afterwards.

[shuffy]

A great find, Northeast. You're right the music does sound earlier than 2004. I'm sure it's none of the same people but it reminds me of the pirates in York in the early 90s which appeared just after acid house started and into the rave era. I used to visit regularly in the early 90s (had an ex who lived near there) and for a small town almost middle of nowhere, it had a surprisingly good pirate scene! I'm surprised there isn't more audio around from that era. At least one of the stations on at that time, KLFM, was huge - so where's the audio?

I see the pirate archive site asking for info on Freak FM and just had a thought - it sounds like the guy in the first recording was running it but he obviously isn't a local. They're talking about "The Fulford Massive" though, so I wonder if he's a student. The local student station, University Radio York (URY) had been chasing an FM license for years and had got nowhere by 2004. Prior to that though, they had form for running pirate stations "on the side". So, I'm wondering if this had something to do with URY.