1999?...You best tek a rewind back 10 years prior...1989 was when pirate radio was hi jackin' the airwaves proper. I was a pirate radio dj on three of the main players back then. 1989 Medina Fm and Centerforce Fm and 1991 Pulse Fm..From House to Hardcore all across London. It was an absolute privelege to hang over a tower block at 2:00am in the morning with my backside freezing up to rahtid whilst trying to put an aerial up because the day before the DTI mash it up. It really was a lifestyle back then...Nuff shakers and movers but yeah, we got the job done. Pirate radio is the heartbeat that keeps the ridims pumping to the dance public because commercial radio ain't playing what we playing you understand. We are the first stop to all underground music released everywhere. i tell u now, i had the time of my life choppin n runnin from feds trying to link up with my tunes after a raid. gimme a fine but under no circumstance confiscate my tune...thats world war 3 right there u get me lol. Big up to all Pirates out n around now and way back then...Gimme some signal!
@Tambian - Big up bruva!! You should document what you did through a series of chronicles like this lot have done!! You can't let those stories or history get lost. I know there's some stuff out there but there's never enough and we can't let the commercial lot whitewash our history and rewrite it to suit their own gains.
Love to my son Ashley, so very proud of you and what you have achieved over the years with your music. Congrats for a brilliant documentary, well done 😘.
Big up the freeze fm ....fond memories of my adolescence...watching from ibiza now ...back in the day in my bedroom in west London ... well done Ashley j for this 👌
Literally grew up in South harrow/Rayner's lane, remember the old under-18 raves at cine bar it late 90's. Miss these days man, stations like ice and freeze got me into dj'ing and still doing it today, vinyl of course ❤️ Good old days for real 🔥
@paulrydzinski9995 TOTALLY agree with you with those names. Also Flight FM, not as well known but it was sick, mainly sick dnb MCs and DJs but also garage MCs like Stevie A and the MC from Flowers
Was a pleasure to be apart of, I was on the station for a few years Mc sez & Jpr show, loved it! Meant so much to us 👍 remember the phone crashed on us where it was so busy! 💪
Finally got round to checking this out.. a very good, well constructed, in-depth tale of Freeze FM. Could never pick em up on my radio but heard a few sets here and there. Big up AJ and all involved - pirate radio was a religion.
Massively nostalgic watching that. Iv always had decks and a studio from a young kid to now. Was involved with radio in north london what a time. Id be at work on site with the boys banging out the airwaves all day shouting me out from my own house mad times 🔊
This was a lot of fun to watch. Not living in London back then was stress. Had to grab downloads from Napster and Kazaa for my fix 🤣. Thanks for creating this 🙌🏾
People from previous, flex, juice, rinse too omgooooooowsh ahhh maaaaaad the history 😍🔥🔥 Freeze carried the underground to the main and brought us the best! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Well done for putting this together 👏 I was involved in pirate radio as well back in them days and have great memories and stories but we didn’t have videos or camera phones then (feel old 😂) so great to watch this and remember the great times. Would be good if you could show the day to day running a pirate radio station it’s not easy from lead’s letting you down someone always on call to sort things out. Dti would take down areal down I would say once a month the black op putting it back up.
Bruv not gonna lie, I been waiting for this documentary since you first put the word out way back when, I gotta send mad love to all the production team cos you all done an amazing job. Fucking brilliant watch
Ah so many great memories... i think freeze was also the first time i had ever seen scrolling rds signal!! Would love to see more of the studio , infrastructure etc
ASSSS part of this music industry I must say Ashley Jay this covered my area I grow up in and with a lot of names on this documentary, freeze fm was a big part to play in foundation of garage n grime. I fully enjoyed this Ashley well done 👏
Really well constructed documentary. So many fantastic memories of Freeze, it really is crazy how much of a movement Freeze was at the time and now a part of music history. Shouts to all involved. Ikon
Loved the documentary! Brings back serious memories! Nice to see some of my college man dem getting the recognition for being part of such a big movement! I’m going to bang out some tunes- I’m feeling nostalgic 👊🏽👊🏽😉
I was a delivery driver that worked around London in them days....blasting out rinse or freeze....even the public loved it....first time I heard pirate....was hooked for life...shame it didn't really last...main stream wasn't as good...vibe was totally different
An interesting documentary .. I never liked garage growing up, but I always wondered why West wasn't as involved with the grime scene as much, but now I have some idea from this doc. Back in high school, I remember a lot of people were still stuck trying to emcee garage-style, & one day when I was in 6th Form, someone in my class corrected a teacher by saying "Oh its not garage anymore, its Grime .. Grime's the new thing" .. that was in 2005, I think. Infact, I swear I used to see a lot of youths within Ealing/Greenford who looked like they were from out-of-town, spitting bars outside my local Chicken Cottage .. that could've been D Double or Kano or something.
@@ashleyj2960 Thanks man, yeh there were a lot things said on here that definitely reflected some thoughts I had e.g. West London being "underrated". Also laughed at some of it as well e.g. 1:11:35 "DTI would turn up, & they was taking a shit" LOL
purple gdouble e super k danger k even doneo when he use to spit with his split personality and melody from master steps was inspired by a busta rhymes tune fonti was the dan gorgan dj
Using the house phone too shout out your mandem from high school.. Then going in next morning and man saying I heard the shout out.... Good times these kids these days don't know boi
Same. I think this was after my time. In my day listening to UKG the big stations were Upfront, Taste FM, Delight, Deja Vu, Flex FM and Pure Magic. Upfront and Flex probably being the biggest.
Our first pirate station in the eighties was based on two Sony Walkman's and a mic plugged into an impromptu retired 200w police transceiver. Boy were they pissed when they finally caught up with us! 🤔😂
such a shame the sound is distorted on so many of the interviews and there us such a lack of old footage or audio. as for the gratuitous picture glitching...
fun times I. will never forget it - times now ???? they selling area nightclub, no wonder the youth of today getting ill. so true about every car, flat, van playing the best pirate staion at the time...
What I remember most about the Garage days was that NO ONE could MC. Like people can say what they want but Wiley was the first MAINSTREAM UK vocalist who could actually hold his own and yes he was around towards the end of UKG but if we're all being honest he pretty much birthed Grime on his own and like I said from him on-wards was the period in time when the spitting ability of MC's actually got good. The only person who did a half a good job of spraying like BACK BACK in the day was Mighty Moe. I'm not saying he's some top grade lyricist or anything but he was by far and away the best of a very bad bunch in my opinion anyway. Actually go back and listen to all the old Garage records and every MC was pretty much relying on reload bars knowing the DJ would jack up the mix and start again. Like soooo many people had this perception of being heavy and spitting back in the day but they all hid behind the fact that they only had like 2 or 3 bars and the fact DJ's were wheeling up the track if one of their chats was well known or sounded decent.
Love this doc! Im west all day (ealing) but its a MUAAD disrespect when you had EVERY person on the doc have their name stated on the screen who they was! Then DANGER'18'K comes on early without mans name on the screen!? Mad disrespect! Legend ina dis!
