radio here is tightly regulated and although in addition to the shows
already mentioned on BBC London you can also listen in London to Phil
Asher's R Solution and Patrick Forge's Cosmic Jam (or you could a couple of
years ago - I dont get up to the smoke much these days) on a mainstream
independent station like Kiss, there is little that could be classified as
legal underground radio in the UK.
what we do have are the pirate radio stations, basically guys broadcasting
total illegally from transmitters on the top of big blocks of flats, which
have been crucial to the explosion of UK Garage - I'll have to leave it to
someone to provide more info about this amazing scene as I know next to
nothing about it all.
I reckon the college radio stations in the US are terrific: certainly not
dumb in their approach to music programming, quite the opposite in fact. I
remember listening to shows on KALX in Berkeley about 15 years ago that were
really at the forefront of the musical eclecticism that we celebrate on this
site and certainly on my last trip to the States I would listen to Cosmo's
show on the NYU station whenever I got the chance.
-----Original Message-----
From: stephanie [mailto:nnine@yahoo.com]
Sent: 10 January 2001 17:11
To: Richard Hawkins
Cc: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu'; Kerr, Jim
Subject: RE: How does the BBC work? (was Jazz)
> also pays for the BBC's 5
> national radio stations and a
> number of local radio stations. I avidly listen to
> BBC LondonLive which
> includes shows from Ross Allen, Norman Jay, Bob
> Jones and Coldcut amongst
> others.
OH.... (light bulb) so that would start to explain why
over there, the Cinematic Orchestra actually gets a
crowd, and over here we're lucky to get some of these
acts to come through occasionally. and also why we're
generally dumber. =P so I guess the "underground" has
got to be constructed totally differently...
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