I'm very old fashioned and nostalgic about the golden years of LBP's. For me the best Land Based Pirate Era was the early/mid 1970's on MW AM and SW AM.
Setting up portable installations in scrub lands and woods around south London and in Kent was so much fun and back then stations played bright fun pop music of the day. Back then the charts had a variety of music styles from Bubblegum, Glam, Soul, Ballads and early the form of disco (The Hughes Corp. "Rock The Boat" etc). Also, instrumental pop was popular back then and often used as stations theme music.
There was a certain charm and warmth of the stations, the music and the personnel DJ's, engineers and lookouts.
Here's a video from my favourite era, Radio Jackie 1970's
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