The launch of Kiss 105

[pirateaddict]

In around 2000-2001 Jake jay did some broadcast's from firth park in Sheffield on 107 with Paul G ( the Astrix and space and eazy d recordings on YouTube come from me via Paul G) and ive still got the tape of them saying they will up the power. So they went off then come back on..I was texting them reception reports . The joy FM geezer you remember i think was MC Buckethead,he was a postman from stocksbridge..Joy had their studio on the pink block linked up to the blue block..Yeah i had SCR on my floor, Dance fm on the 15th floor linked up to the green block and 105fm station on the 10th floor in big Paul's flat who also had dance FM's link aerial in his room pointing at the green block! Them were 't days!

[radionortheast]

Dance fm and SCR were close by remember them saying on Dance fm they could hear SCR in their speakers. I never went to Sheffield with a radio, except on a school field trip, I always wondered were they came from, thanks for that, they came from much further away than Leeds, they didn’t seem to have the same stations in Leeds, there was dream, don’t remember any others playing dance/rave, I could pick up. I liked they would often be on 24/7, the characters involved, aswell as the music been good, had edge to them, huddersfield stations started playing some trance around 1999, it was a bit too late. I suppose I do struggle with pirates from else were like Birmingham and London, never heard those stations, seems grimey, a reality i'm not that keen on it, seems far away from what I would hear coming through the radio, not been part of the rave scene, pirate radio scene, I do struggle to connect with it, don’t see how I could have any kudos, a listener with low power transmitters. I do miss hearing these stations coming through from Sheffield, wish they were still there or something like I could listen too, I found an old recording of Fantasy fm lately, one I remember hearing, the music is all bass treble, they really knew how to take you away.

[radionortheast]

This is brilliant too, so pro never heard anything like it, someone should bring back Dance fm so we can listen to it again.

[manvers massive]

There was fun kids on dab, it had no adverts or news, i’m pretty sure a while ago they were trying to make it so all stations had to have news, I hate the idea of. It had to come off some of the networks, don’t know how it was run, the operator came on another forum surprised about, obviously he’d been squeezed off some of them, I guess they must upped the rates, I can still hear on the lincs dab has good enough reception, how its been paid for I don’t know, its great that it keeps on going without adverts and news.
With ssdab I think the rates do vary as to which their on, if their run by a community station their usually lower, I think if their out sourced to another company or the place has bigger coverage area I suppose their put up, would likely cost 1,000’s a year, some of the figures i've seen quoted around. I suppose bam bam could stream through a 3rd party website

Bam Bam is back on Kisstory! I don't think anyone predicted this in 2025

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2025/01/bam-ba ... -kisstory/

[radionortheast]

Bam Bam is back on Kisstory! I don't think anyone predicted this in 2025

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2025/01/bam-ba ... -kisstory/

I suppose that maybe explains why he took his station off air. I left on it on playing when it was tv my parents didn't like it

[pirateaddict]

I like it when theres talk of Sheffield pirates coz I've got some input instead of just reading At the time that dance FM was on,the studio was on the 15th floor and scr studio on the 5th,my floor, and the dance link aerial was on the same roof area as scr's link aerial and maybe that was the cause..I know scr and fantasy shared studios a lot (same owner) and ive got a tape where fantasy's link goes off and i can hear scr coming through very low over the crackle. Things like that just fascinated me adding to the mystery and drama of it all!

[radionortheast]

Years ago I had small article about dream fm, someone exchanged coded knocks on a door, I always assumed they were baricaded in, it was interesting to find out they were linked.
I don’t remember the links ever been off fantasy dance I was trying to think of this other day, there was odd station in goole used to do it, thinking of posting about it the other day, other pirates too were white noise would come through louder than the backround noise, didn’t know what it was about then.
I remember sometimes dance fm not been there, I could weakly hear fresh fm Leicester, don’t think it was as good as dance, heard colour of my skin, hard to get into stuff from else were. The audio was always really good on fantasy dance scr, I did think it was really nice later on with fantasy the audio on the low side, get crackles over the top of it. There was a song on fantasy that went ‘ulitimate fuss’ would be funny to hear this now. I do wonder if the transmitter got passed to Joy fm, I read in the comments of that video ‘we all know what happened to fantasy’ it has me confused, I kind assumed it had run its course, dj dream went over to dance fm, you had that thing it having martin l, doing the voice overs on the tape, dj dream been a dj, also heard the early rummages of dream house music, early song from lost witness, nylon moon skyplus, robert miles, mark snow or dj dado, a version of champagne supernova, oasis probably hated, wish more of those things had survived, to hear it again would be something.
The happy hardcore on dj dreams show I would turn up loud not such a good thing now, i’ve gone off happy hardcore bit since, the only thing I wasn’t kean on energy 106 when they did this i’d already heard it before. I do like his earlier stuff on fantasy, think it was more gabba, techno, breakbeat, i’m no good with styles don’t know if i’ve got them right….they knew how weave a landscape put escapism across the airwaves, it was hard to get into stuff else were, some urban music is good, it was more reality based, I really struggled to get into it.

I will likely be preparing a list of songs heard on fantasy, maybe do it with dance dream too, I have a usb stick, it happened the dj had alot of oldskool, some of the songs I reconized, it will be interesting to try and do this. I’m pretty sure dance fm had gone by the end of 1996, don’t think I heard it after we moved, Joy fm was still around, Fantasy, Pitch were long gone, Foul mouth wasn’t heard either. Scr was on air, I would listen to it more, 1997? I think Martin l did some tests on sweet fm 107.7, playing ibiza music that was all that was heard. It would of been about the time when kiss 105 came on, I think maybe scr had changed their name abit with 107, it seemed to be afew stations with 1 0 numbers in then.

[pirateaddict]

RadioNortheast..Yeah fantasy went off early to mid 95 from 105.9 and joy came on after on 105.8 and used the old fantasy phone number and rig and was run by EW.. I think Martin leverton was just a DJ on dance, it was Kenny g/mister b of diamond 102 and mighty FM 100.7 who ran dance.. I've seen that comment about fantasy and i don't really know what happened, all i do know is that the fantasy management ran the "rave america"ads which turned out to be a con which conned people out of money for a rave holiday in America which was never going to happen! Hey picking up fresh from Leicester was a good catch mate I've only really caught west Yorkshire pirates before but i did catch radio cymru here in Sheffield once on 104 point something.. I've got a tape of scr from 91 and they're getting calls from Nottingham and i heard shouts to Grimsby and hull on fantasy a few times in later years.. Them wer't days weren't they

[pirateaddict]

I wrote further up about dance link being on the roof,nah it was on the tenth floor in a window with scr's link 5 floors above to the right about 5feet so that may have caused dance to hear scr through their speakers...

[radionortheast]

I was able to hear scr on my pocket radio going up the hill to high hunsley, you could problalby pick up the other stations there too, used to go all over with my parents. You can pick sheffield stations up at sutton bank too, could walk around the edge have the same as back at home. I once heard Pitch fm I suspect it was that on top of the bridestones dalby forest, to the north you could see some cranes northumberland, to the south this patchwork quilt, not something i’ve ever forgotten. There were meant to be stations in york, I never heard them, heard the relay for dream fm, transmitting silence, made it more interesting.

I didn’t mean to be annoying, I didn’t know how the sheffield stations opearated, until you posted your earlier comment I didn’t know they were linked, there were reliable, rarely heard them off air, I liked. There was peoples fm, dream fm if we were going near Leeds, but dream wasn’t there at lot of time, would switching on and off, come on durring hoildays durring the day sometimes. There was 104.9 from Leeds too, I could get back at home, always though it was peoples fm but may of been something else.
I could only pick up stations poorly when I first started listening, equipment was poor, fantasy came in distorted, my hifi had a much better radio by 1995, mostly because of a woman at argos, allowed us to exchange the one that wasn’t working, also got my dad to put a dipole in the loft…I got by having wires strung all round the room, perhaps by this time other people had better equipment too, maybe they could pick up dance fm in Hull. Jason Taylor said he had picked up his station going over the humber bridge, frequency fm, think it was one of them vertical aerials people always get on about, I didn’t listen to it much excpet when it was playing a tape of songs, I prefered my own downloaded music by this time.
The hifi would get fantasy, dance, scr noise free, I would have to mess around with wires, to get stereo it had a stereo blend feature, i'd like to hear the stereo.
I do remember someone ringing up dance fm, they said they had a call from someone listening just outside of London, i’m not sure they believed it, they said they had a big aerial, i’m guessing it was some early dxer with a big triax aerial, listening under tropo. When you put the distance in from Sheffield from were I heard pitch it is getting on to the same distance, i’m guessing there can’t of been anything on air closer to them at the time, there was a lot of pirate activity then. I heard shoutouts to Manchester when first started hearing fantasy, I took a look round Sheffield the other day on google, you can't tell the line of sight, make out any landmarks further away, theres not enough resolution, seems really hilly.

[pirateaddict]

No mate you've not annoyed me at all.. I have a lot to say about radio in Sheffield back then and i think im trying to get the information out before i forget what I'm on about lol...I don't think any pirates from here got to Manchester but you never know.. Sheffield is very hilly and the flats where the stations came from were the only place where you could cover most of Sheffield..A mate of mine played on fantasy but couldn't pick it up at his house in handsworth. I lived in a dip and wasn't in line of sight of the aerials at the other side of the hill with the manor at the top and Norfolk park just over the other side going down the hill in to town, but i did ok with wires all over, like you. Got NRG from leeds and dream a few times and later on listened to move FM which wasn't listenable when Kenny fired up on 99.9 on a Sunday

[reverend]

I remember a number of Sheffield-area pirates from the mid 1980s. There was Ocean Sound on 106.3 which was from Swinton, near Rotherham. 'DJ Robert' had a 5 Watt Veronica transmitter which got out very well as he had a decent antenna and was on a relatively high point. He inherited one of my stereo-coders. 'Scooter Jones' ran Rebel Radio on 105.4, another Veronica transmitter from, I seem to remember, Wickersley. I never met Scooter but did speak to him on the phone once or twice. Both Ocean Sound and Rebel Radio used VCO rigs but they were surprisingly stable. As most FM radios were also VCO back then, it didn't matter if you were a few 10s of kHz off frequency. Ocean Sound, Rebel Radion and another station ZFM took it in turns during the week to broadcast (usually Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings). Broadcasts tended to start around 8pm and run until close to midnight.

There was also Radio Nemesis on 106.0 and later 107.0 from near Chesterfield run by 'Tony Page' who, I think, made his own transmitter. Nemesis was mostly on-air on Sunday afternoons.

I also remember a station called East End radio which I think was on either 95.4 of 96.6 from Attercliffe but only heard them once or twice.

Most of the tower block stations such as SCR came along a little later, after I had left the city.

[pirateaddict]

Yes mate i missed all those mid eighties stations even the one at attercliffe which wasn't far from me at the time lol.. I didn't hear any piratical behaviour until April 89 when my mum's mate told me about scr and that was me hooked! I heard Rebel radio a few times on 105.2 i think in about 1990... The ocean sound station, I'm sure he went on to do mainline 102 then 105 ..I say that because sometimes he'd be talking over a tape of sounds from the seaside like waves crashing and seagulls making a racket, could be wrong though! I was taken aback when i discovered century 100 coz I'd never heard pop music on a pirate, apart from Caroline 558 ..loved it mate.

[Frequent Lee]

Got NRG from leeds and dream a few times and later on listened to move FM which wasn't listenable when Kenny fired up on 99.9 on a Sunday

What was the signal like for NRG 100.5 where you were located then?

We sacked Move FM 99.9 off after only a few months as we were getting absolutely smashed by the DTI every single weekend, we once waited for them at the block one Friday evening and our mate Obi grabbed our transmitter from the bloke as he came out of the building, that move was the nail in the coffin, we'd switch things on around 7pm Friday nights and the rigs were gone by 7:30pm guaranteed. We used a microwave link made by Nick from what is now Enigma so thankfully the studio never got a visit from them the short time we existed, although they were most likely tracing it I reckon. The studio was literally a stones throw from the block in an industrial unit on Water Lane in Leeds. The block and the studio units got demolished in around 2008.

The same block was used for the first 6 months of Frequency 88.1 in 2006.

[pirateaddict]

.Or8 Lee... When i got NRG it wasn't all that strong with the wire aerial that i had.. Think i only found it coz mighty 100.7 had gone off here in Sheffield but if id have tried hard enough i would have got it a lot clearer..Move came in loud and clear when i picked it up..I also won a Koma and Bones cd from one of the djs for being the furthest listener

[pirateaddict]

Lee where i was at the time was in a dip in a place called darnall in Sheffield and sometimes couldnt get a pirate from Sheffield when it was further down the other side of Norfolk park so i did pretty well where i was recieving leeds stations.. Frequency absolutely boomed in at the southern edge of Sheffield at graves park and i was taken aback because i didn't think pirates had RDS text, which freq did..Graves park is pretty high up though..

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I don’t know if it was just the name of a group of people but he would say the manchester moss side crew. The first time I ever tuned to Fantasy, the generation game was on downstairs, I heard someone called the timebandit, never heard anything like it, the easy d or dizzy? was on air too. Don’t think I ever heard him again, he talked about rave, would sent shoutouts to the bedroom ravers people watching the tv with the sound turned down. They problaly had adverts too with martin leverton doing the voice over, would mention rockingham street sounded like a good place.
It would come over distorted with all noise over the top of it, i had long wire attached the end of tape roll, stations from leeds would come in at the same level, part way down hill facing south away from leeds, dream was the only station I could hear would sound the same distorted too.

It was always something if you hear these stations, it was quite far away, some kind of mystery, not beable to see where they would come from, inquisitive nature wanting to know I suppose there could be something more out there, we went to different places did wonder what you might hear. 105-108 was compleatly open then, anything could be put onto it, something new could come on or be just around the corner.
When I would first hear timebandit, he would announce it as fantasy radio, makes it seem really ancient now, really characterful voice, it ticked the box of what you wanted to hear, real characterful, everyone else would say fantasy fm, I guess they'd have to be happy with that.
When I got a pocket radio with digital tuning, I could hear these stations under the light in the bathroom, the only place I could hear them, get the stereo coming though on pitch fm. Having a pocket radio or walkman with digital tunning allowed me to listen other places other that at home, made things more interesting. I’ve listened to recordings of fantasy on the pirate archive, they do really do it justice, exactly how it would sound, constant beat, I do miss the intensity of these stations. I could get stations going through hull not something you could hear back home, I tried to hear them when we moved to the top of the hill, I thought I was hearing one, it turned out to bcb on an rsl from bradford.

I read that on the sheffield tribunal, https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/low- ... heyday-of/ was interesting, they all used norfolk park, rent a flat i’m guessing they would put the transmitter there and link to the studio else were, its not that clear, it said they would put a dummy link else were over the other side of the city, they had lots of blocks to choose from, dj’s were really scared everytime they went on air, the best they could hope for in a studio was swivel chairs, it made me lol though of dinning chairs. I think they got out to doncaster really well, I think its compleatly flat to the north east. Interesting people would drive to hills to hear them, I think it would a big ask to get a signal all the way into hull, you could hear them on the wolds. I did notice them coming back up by kirkstall valley I never heard anything from leeds or sheffield on my pocket radio when going towards hull down the m62, i’m guessing on a car radio you might of been able to hear them back then. There was ggv I would hear around goole, on 105.6, i’d often hear stations around hull i’d hear skirting round the edges of it, heard gabba music like that of a sheffield station. By the time I had access a car radio they’d long gone, bitten the bullet, no more timebandits or characters, just the likes of galaxy 105, real radio, local radio, when we went through hull we heard a schools broadcast on the frequency you'd hear the gabba, quite a lot different.

[reverend]

Bam Bam and Street Boy (classic combo) are back on Kisstory in the afternoons. Sounds voice-tracked to me though - just the two of them bantering for 30 seconds or so between each track - with little of the real 'spark' that made them such a great listen back in the day.

[radionortheast]

I had a quick listen to bam bam and streetboy, I don’t think theres anything wrong with the music, i’m not kean on the chit chat, I switched back to my in house transmitter. I think there is alot of annoying chit chat round, the top 40 would be quite good if it wasn't for it, I tuned to radio 2 or radio sheffield the other day the dj started talking about common things people dream of, I wondered why they were doing this, why transmitter wasn't among the things.

[radionortheast]

Graeme Park on Galaxy 105-106


anyone know the name of the dj who hung around at kiss 105, eventually managed to get onto it, I remember reading an article about it, i’ve not been able to find it.