Brighton’s Festival Radio turned the medium inside out and upside down for 23 days in May 1990 - exactly 30 years ago.

An extraordinary schedule of presenters, live sessions, DJ mixes, interviews, new writing and groundbreaking experiments in sound.

On a pop up basis over the next three years, the transmissions played a part in the early stages of many successful careers in music and broadcasting. Whether you were in the original crew that created the radio shows, if you remember tuning in… or coming to any of our events, we’d love to hear from you!

We’d like to invite you to contribute your hazy memories, bootleg recordings and photos to our blog.  These fragments will provide the material for an audio-visual installation to be created and exhibited later this year along with a reunion party.

Please get in touch with your Festival Radio memories (up to 400 words) and send them to us using this form.  Send photos and audio files via WeTransfer by email to hello(at)festivalradio.org.uk.  To jog memories, scroll down this page to watch 23 Days in May, the Story of Festival Radio, a TV doc from 1990. Some short compilations of clips from music shows and interviews are playable in the first Blog posts.

We’d love to hear from you and we look forward to seeing you again at the exhibition and reunion later this year.

Daniel Nathan & Eugene Perera