Transmitting from Pirate Satellite! London's first and only Pirate TV station

Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey...but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986...and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community access to TV, and even got city funding...remember this is a time where Kiss was a successful pirate, it could have been possible.

Genesis P even pops up at some point in Program 3, here it's "this vid has sound after 2 minutes Big Love by john maybury - The Fridge party-diamanda galas london concert - Margaret Thatcher talks about facelift - City Limits events listing - heatwave video jimmi fox & paul le chien - Rusty Eagan's pump it up video - einstürzende neubauten - punk body map rock fashion show - miles davis Decoy video-marguerite duras on lack" - make sense of that as you will, or just tune in and trip out to the mad cuts and visuals...and freak out by Diamandas.

TV COULD have been like this, instead we get the shit that is X-Factor and Big Brother. Sigh.

Sadly it got raided on it's first birthday.

Oh yeah and the pirate bit might be a hint, but it's slightly NSFW, although not terrible so - it's art darling!

(I would usually say thank you to Boing Boing for this, but weirdly their post about Mr Gysin doesn't even mention the amazing and very interesting source of the video, which I tracked down after a short hunt. Like hello? Maybe Pirate TV grows on trees in Cory's world? ;-) Or he can't receive it up in his balloon :-P)

Transmitting from Pirate Satellite! London's first and only Pirate TV station

Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey...but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986...and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community access to TV, and even got city funding...remember this is a time where Kiss was a successful pirate, it could have been possible.

Genesis P even pops up at some point in Program 3, here it's "this vid has sound after 2 minutes Big Love by john maybury - The Fridge party-diamanda galas london concert - Margaret Thatcher talks about facelift - City Limits events listing - heatwave video jimmi fox & paul le chien - Rusty Eagan's pump it up video - einstürzende neubauten - punk body map rock fashion show - miles davis Decoy video-marguerite duras on lack" - make sense of that as you will, or just tune in and trip out to the mad cuts and visuals...and freak out by Diamandas.

TV COULD have been like this, instead we get the shit that is X-Factor and Big Brother. Sigh.

Sadly it got raided on it's first birthday.

Oh yeah and the pirate bit might be a hint, but it's slightly NSFW, although not terrible so - it's art darling!

(I would usually say thank you to Boing Boing for this, but weirdly their post about Mr Gysin doesn't even mention the amazing and very interesting source of the video, which I tracked down after a short hunt. Like hello? Maybe Pirate TV grows on trees in Cory's world? ;-) Or he can't receive it up in his balloon :-P)

Transmitting from Pirate Satellite! London's first and only Pirate TV station

Something I missed probably because I was either in deepest Shropshire or deepest Surrey...but the only ever London pirate tv station Network21 transmitted in 1986 just under ITV for a year in 1986...and the program was arts based and they lobbied (unsuccessfully, although nighttime TV and cable/satellite probably answered some of those needs) for community access to TV, and even got city funding...remember this is a time where Kiss was a successful pirate, it could have been possible.

Genesis P even pops up at some point in Program 3, here it's "this vid has sound after 2 minutes Big Love by john maybury - The Fridge party-diamanda galas london concert - Margaret Thatcher talks about facelift - City Limits events listing - heatwave video jimmi fox & paul le chien - Rusty Eagan's pump it up video - einstürzende neubauten - punk body map rock fashion show - miles davis Decoy video-marguerite duras on lack" - make sense of that as you will, or just tune in and trip out to the mad cuts and visuals...and freak out by Diamandas.

TV COULD have been like this, instead we get the shit that is X-Factor and Big Brother. Sigh.

Sadly it got raided on it's first birthday.

Oh yeah and the pirate bit might be a hint, but it's slightly NSFW, although not terrible so - it's art darling!

(I would usually say thank you to Boing Boing for this, but weirdly their post about Mr Gysin doesn't even mention the amazing and very interesting source of the video, which I tracked down after a short hunt. Like hello? Maybe Pirate TV grows on trees in Cory's world? ;-) Or he can't receive it up in his balloon :-P)

This is so fucked up

Fucked up on Fox? WTF?

And he did Gender Studies? *candle for Damian just burns that little brighter*

Sometimes recently I think I've just fallen through some dimension warp and am in some Bizarroworld.

This is so fucked up

Fucked up on Fox? WTF?

And he did Gender Studies? *candle for Damian just burns that little brighter*

Sometimes recently I think I've just fallen through some dimension warp and am in some Bizarroworld.

This is so fucked up

Fucked up on Fox? WTF?

And he did Gender Studies? *candle for Damian just burns that little brighter*

Sometimes recently I think I've just fallen through some dimension warp and am in some Bizarroworld.