{"id":194,"date":"2010-03-19T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T05:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/?p=194"},"modified":"2022-04-27T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T10:59:34","slug":"london-radio-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wwwhatsup.com\/streamola\/wp\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"London Radio 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact my beloved DBC Rebel Radio had been shut down, and Lepke the station manager arrested, was definitely a contributory factor to my decision to move to the USA in 1983. The door having been opened, however, a flood of new stations, mostly based in South London, sprang up. Someone gave me this tape, a wander around the dial from 1987, which includes KISS and Traffic Jam. You’ll observe parts of the latter are massively sped up, the likely explanation for this is that they, like DBC before them, employed the “plant the cassette player and transmitter on the tower block and retire to a safe distance” method, and those cheap cassette players were notoriously erratic.<\/p>\n