London fields radio

Enthusiasm and good musical taste are what count here, expressing a feel of freedom, fun and readiness to explore the musically unexpected.

If working with Radar appeals to you, then contact getinvolved radarradio. South London is an area of London whose fortunes have been mixed — to put it mildly.

Reprezent Radio is symbolic of this. The station teamed-up with brands such as Tate Britain and Converse and launched the careers of grime star Stormzy and DJ Jamz Supernova, among others. It also makes its contribution to society at large by mentoring over 2, 13 to 25 year-olds, helping to develop young talent for the future. It continues to go from strength to strength, moving last year to up-and-coming shopping and food hub, Pop Brixton.

But — arguably holding the balance between the old Soho and the new — is Soho Radio. Situated symbolically in Great Windmill Street, across the road from a boutique hotel but near to the Windmill club — one-time venue for nude tableaux vivants and now home to a table-dancing club — it has had guests ranging from Boy George and Stephen Fry to local workers such as piano-tuners. We use cookies to help make our site work properly and to analyze how our site is used.

Some are optional, but none contain your personal information. Internet radio's biggest success story is undoubtedly Dalston's NTS. Its founders were looking at creating an alternative to mainstream radio stations, where traditionally, you'd have to stay up till unsociable hours to get anything approaching the eclectic mix that NTS focuses on. NTS launched in , and now boasts over , regular listeners globally. Part of the station's appeal is that the schedule makes space for everyone from superstar DJs, to everyday locals who want to air out their record collection once a month.

These days it also creates excellent online video content and even collaborates with Tate Modern for their Friday night lates. One of the major differences between internet radio stations and their pirate predecessors is that they no longer need to hide in fear of the police. So the broadcasts have moved out from towering council estates to east London coffee shops. At least that's where London Fields Radio has pitched up.

Apparently the delectable blend of coffee is one of the things that inspires the station, alongside all those eclectic sounds from E8 and beyond. Community is at the heart of the station and they're at their best when they provide the soundtrack for Wilton Way's massive street parties. Radar Radio in Clerkenwell is all about training young people in radio, and focusing on the sounds of the underground. Lots of the stations on this list now have a global reach — something they're acutely aware of, often sticking to DJs with experience.

The aim is to create the next wave hosting the mainstream stations. Although, to do that they'll probably have to drop some of the swearing. The newcomer of the pack, Worldwide FM broadcasts out of north east London.

As their name suggests, they have a penchant for music sourced from every corner of the globe. Its two co-founders know what they're doing; Gilles Peterson got his start in pirate radio, before jumping over to the BBC's stations, finally making the transition to internet radio in Thris Tian was on the forefront of broadcasting music through the power of the internet, as he's also a co-founder of the incredibly popular Boiler Room.

Broadcasting out of Pop Brixton, Reprezent Radio is another station that focuses on youth; all their presenters are under Perhaps the station's biggest claim to fame is helping to launch the career of grime superstar Stormzy. They gave him his first ever radio interview, which led to them giving his own phone-in advice show along with grime crew Section Boyz. Station manager Adrian Newman said : "Their advice was terrible, but the show was really, really funny, and the phone lines would go off the charts".

Arguably it's more of a traditional radio station than an internet one, as it broadcasts on FM and DAB as well as internet. However, the station's ethos is much more in line with other community focused stations on this list, something the volunteers who work at the station are strongly committed to.

Soho Radio has a van that we imagine is the kind of thing that Scooby Doo and gang would design if they were to move out of the hoax ghost business and into the radio world. Just to clarify, that's a compliment.

And it's got the tunes to match their wicked van. Soho radio covers genres as niche as Japanese grime, alongside non-musical options like satirical comedy shows.

It's clearly working for Soho Radio; it was named the best internet radio station in the world in