Tape Crackers: An Oral History of Jungle Pirate Radio

http://boomkat.com/dvds/422179-rollo-jac...rate-radio

Has anyone seen this? Is it any good, certainly sounds interesting and maybe worth a look.

Wow. That does look good.

indeed.
shame it starts from 94 though.

keep us posted if anyone gets this.

That is a shame.Seems odd to say the history and to miss out on some of the key years.

looks interesting

88-94 were key years for pirate radio, literally 100's of stations were on air



maybe I could do a dvd myself!?, hmm.........................................

That is a shame. Seems odd to say the history and to miss out on some of the key years.

It's one man's retrospective though, not a full compendium. To do that anyhow you'd need more than one recordist - impossible to define and chat about all the years that so many people missed, including myself.

Although the period covered falls a little bit later than the golden era of 1990-1993 - the anecdotes and Finch's compelling delivery basically render that almost irrelevant(...)what you really get from Tape Crackers is a snapshot of a bygone era and one man's obsession with it. It just makes for utterly compelling viewing.

We're basically going on boomkat's staffers' opinion here too, but given their past ear for good things, I'm intrigued.

That is a shame. Seems odd to say the history and to miss out on some of the key years.

It's one man's retrospective though, not a full compendium. To do that anyhow you'd need more than one recordist - impossible to define and chat about all the years that so many people missed, including myself.

Ya - what looks good here, is exactly the subjective perspective of it...

Although admittedly, if you got onto a guy like that (and I'm sure there's a few out there of them) who'd been taping from that 1988 - 94 period, you'd be onto a proper winner.

Where it differs from me, for instance, is that in that mid-late 80's, I was taping hip hop, and I was essentially taping individual tunes rather than whole timelines.

Was watching this last night.
Very enjoyable so far.

The guy being interviewed (Mike Finch) is very likeable and genuinely enthusiastic about the whole thing, which turns what could have been a very dull spiel about pirate radio in the nineties into something much more entertaining. I guess as someone that used to tape different radio shows over the years and listen to alot of pirate tapes passed on by friends this is a nice nostalgic trip for someone like me. As it said in the Boomkat review, the years covered are irrelevant here, the DVD captures the vibe and the mystery of those early years very, very well - that's what pirate radio was about, whatever the year, VIBE.

As I say I haven't seen all of it yet, but I like what I've seen so far !

some articles on the DVD I found...


http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/se...rave-tapes


http://www.dummymag.com/reviews/tape-crackers-review

This DVD sounds interesting.

Thanks for the tip people.