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Margate Radio is an independent online community radio station based in Margate, UK. A home for exp

15/08/2024

✨ Margate Radio is super excited to be represented at We Out Here Festival as part of their highlights of community radios.

For this occasion, Rob and Raven (Speakers Corner Quartet) have created a wonderful collaborative hour of sonic dream channelling, that you will able to listen to on .fm from 7 am until 8 am tomorrow morning. ✨

Robert Stillman* is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast United States, currently based in Margate, UK. His music juxtaposes the archaic with the futuristic, incorporating influences of Jazz, Minimalism, American Folk music, and experimental electronic music to create a sound.

Robert has a monthly Sunday morning show on Margate Radio. He approaches and creates each show as a presentation of live improvised experimentation. Every show is original material with no two shows being the same.

*Robert has performed his music at venues and festivals throughout the North America and Europe, both as a solo act, and ensembles of various instrumentations, supporting artists such as The Smile (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner), Deerhoof, Hauschka, Yo La Tengo, Dirty Projectors, and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Advance Base.

In addition to his own music, he currently plays with Tom Skinner (Voices of Bishara), and Dave Okumu. He has also collaborated with acts such as Grizzly Bear, Ghost Poet, Luke Temple (Here We Go Magic), Hiss Golden Messenger, Kit Downes, and Adem Ilhan. He is also part of the collaborative band Bog Bodies with drummer Sean Carprio and guitarist Anders Holst.

14/08/2024

🚨 It’s a Margate Radio Block Party! 🌞🍹🕺 We’re joining forces with our friends from The Centre for one last summer shindig under the September sun.

Margate Radio DJs will be broadcasting live from the Where Else? studio, with speakers out in the square to sound track the finest culinary offerings, tasty tipples, special offers and family friendly activities from...

+ special collab with (!)

& UpMarket Traders

🗓️ Saturday September 7th
⏰ Midday - 5pm
🫰 Free Entry
🔊 100% positive frequencies all day long.

Get it in your diaries and spread the word ~ not one to be missed!

09/08/2024

✨ Tune in tomorrow morning at 9am for a special Margate Pride mix by Nova Dando

Nova is a Margate resident who thinks Margate Pride is the best Pride. They have played at fashion parties, private views and East London q***r parties since 2004. Their show will be a high-NRG q***r anthem warm-up to Prite this weekend. By day, Nova is Global Creative Director at TikTok so expect some viral hits.

Get ready for an energetic morning ✨

25/07/2024

🚨Update: Inky will now play from 5 till 7pm

Note the new time slot ✨

25/07/2024

Coming up on Saturday 3rd August for Margate Radio at the Margate Soul Festival

✨5 - 6pm
Danell Anthony a House enthusiast and co-host of the Vertical Rhythm show on Margate Radio, shares his deep-rooted love for the genre through his crafted DJ sets with selections drawn from the vibrant 90s house scenes of NYC and Chicago, offering a nostalgic journey back to the golden era.

✨7 - 8pm
Paul Camo is the Creative Director of Studio Camo, a Margate based design and branding studio, and also the founder of Margate Radio, which he set up during the first lockdown.
Once a regular DJ at the legendary Plastic People, Paul has hosted show on NTS Radio since 2012. He has also curated the music for the Turner Prize opening event at Turner Contemporary, NTS X Tate Late, Somerset House, and djed for Thom Yorke’s new band The Smile and performed in the Tom Skinner band at Church of Sound. Paul has curated selections for clothes designer Nicholas Daley and Goodhood.

Absolutely legendary ✨

25/07/2024

⭐️ On Saturday 3rd August, Margate Radio will have radio hosts playing at and at

✨3-4pm
Ben Driftwood describes himself as an Imposter Syndrome lifetime member.
Moocher and outgoing introvert.
Collector of images, music and higher vibrations.
Photographer who likes to play records.
DJ who likes to take photos....
Long time listener, first time caller...

✨4-5pm
Inky brings her unique blend of sounds and she is a champion for all types of music. A passionate photographer, keen to record local people and events, as a member of People Dem Collective one of her photo was used on the front cover of the New York Times.

23/07/2024

⭐️ Margate Radio at Margate Soul Featival

Friday 2nd August
6 - 7 pm
Jonathan is one half of Margate Radio’s Synth System Systers. From his early days running clubs and putting on parties, music has always been his driving force. Expect a genre-hopping journey that could veer anywhere from the pulsating rhythms of Afrobeat to the warped sounds of acid house, with disco classics inevitably thrown into the mix.

✨7 - 8 pm
Sophie Sterling selection veers from Amapiano and Afrohouse with some old school RnB, Dancehall, Hip-hop and Reggaeton to get you on your feet dancing.

✨8 - 9 pm
Katie is one half of the Dance Dance Dance night and she will select from her records collection some funk, disco, soul, house and more.

Exciting times are coming so make sure to pop by ✨

23/07/2024

⭐️ Introducing our radio hosts that will be part of Margate Radio at Margate Soul Festival

Friday 2nd August
✨3 - 4pm
Shirley is a French born music and explorer of the invisible. She will curate an intuitive musical collage with Soul.

⭐️4 - 5pm
Hollow Gold is an American-born, UK-naturalized maker based in Margate. Their show, Groove Talkin’ with Hollow Gold, features minority-forward tunes across eras and genres. Hollow Gold DJ sets feature groovin’ A-sides and B-sides by the seaside

Get ready to vibe and dance ✨✨✨

05/07/2024

✨✨ We are celebrating Margate Black Pride tomorrow morning with a special show by Margate Black Pride creator, Gaëtan, from 9 am until 10 am.
If you miss it, you will be able to listen to it again at 5pm.

Margate Black Pride was created to uplift and celebrate Black and Brown LGBTQIA+ community. Together they are amplifying voices and creating spaces where everyone belongs.

Don’t miss this one and tune in from 9 am ✨

Also head to from 3pm to listen to amazing djs and to from 10 am for the after party and share the good vibes.

Let’s party 🌈🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🖤🖤🖤

21/06/2024

🚨 New Show on Sunday at 6pm: Liquid Swords 🚨

Jonny is a Multidisciplinary Creative with a colourful background and a strong passion for The Arts, Music and Culture. His show will be around poetry and spoken word.

Not to be missed!

20/06/2024

Tune in on Saturday 2pm for a guest show ✨

Sam returns to Margate Radio with best friend and DJ buddy Joes for an hour of fun dance music during their weekend away by the sea!

12/06/2024

✨ The new Sounds Of Our Lives show is now live on the website and on Mixcloud.

It is not another show about sound, but a regular series of sonic encounters mixing into the vibrational currents of activism and social justice.
The show is not only about listening to, but listening through, each episode takes a discursive approach where the hosts and special guests explore issues such as environmental justice, migration, disability justice, gentrification and housing rights.

Sounds Of Our Lives is hosted by artist, curator and activist Cecilia Wee and Matt Lewis, musician and activist.

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10/06/2024

✨✨✨ It’s time to celebrate!

On Friday, June 14th, we’re having a Social at WhereElse?

SAVE THE DATE and join us for a laid-back social gathering.

Its an open invite so feel free to spread the word and bring your friends.

We will be celebrating Margate Radio and our CommUnity with great music at the home of the station, Whereelse.

It’ll be an open deck night, so you’ll get to hear lots of amazing music from some of your favorite Margate Radio hosts.

Friday 14th June (next Friday)
7pm- 1am
Free entry ✨✨✨

26/04/2024

Sophie Stirling will be making her Margate Radio debut with her new show ‘Sophie Stirling Presents: The Pre-Game Mix’.
She will be getting you ready for your Saturday night with her beautiful mix of Amapiano and Afrohouse before bringing it back with some old school RnB, Dancehall, Hip-hop and Reggaeton to get you on your feet dancing.

24/04/2024

Turner Lates comes back Friday 26th of April, from 5pm till 9pm, with music by Margate Radio’s Shirley Ottou aka from 5 till 7pm, and Rhiannon Edwards from 7 till 9pm.

Pop by for a sunset at the museum with a drink and melodies 💥💥💥

11/04/2024

We have reached 1.000.000 minutes of Margate Radio archive shows being listened to 🥳🥳🥳

Thank you for supporting and for listening to our amazing shows and hosts that represent our values of diversity, community and more.

To 1.000.000 more 🥂🍾

05/04/2024

Ahead of their concert on the 18th of April , will be live from the booth tomorrow at 2pm and will answer questions as well as play some music.

“The duo’s love of archival recordings and recovered manuscripts is clear across the variety of their song choices, from the beautifully tentative Feygele – Little Bird, adapted from a popular Russian song, to the twisted epic majesty of Flowers for Innocence, based on the Transylvanian Gyöngyvirágos. Ter-Berg and Curzon never smother the folk origins of their influences but explore them kaleidoscopically, exploding the potential of their colours and patterns through their instruments’ long bows, plucks and scrapes” Jude Rogers for the Guardian

Tune in tomorrow and get your tickets 🎟️

03/04/2024

90’s UK rave culture, captured by Ted Polhemus, 1993

20/03/2024

We’re looking for someone to join our pool of voluntary producers at the station. ✨

The responsibilities of a producer are:
Working closely with our hosts to create our live broadcasts at the weekend Looking after the audio quality and controlling the levels for speech and music Preparing files for our archive

The role would be a good opportunity to learn about radio broadcast, including DJ equipment, recording voice and music, and streaming live on the internet. You don’t need prior knowledge of this, just enthusiasm for volunteering at a community radio station. The booth has been set up with ease of use in mind so after a couple of training sessions you’ll be good to dive in.

Email [email protected] to apply ⭐️

08/03/2024

Spume is a Margate based, three-piece psych rock and formed in the summer of 2023.

Tomorrow’s one-off show will see the band discuss their Debut release, the 6-track EP demos and the launch in the evening.

The radio show will be a selection of pieces beloved of the band, taking in experimental electronica, Druid metal, Henry VIII’s 500 y.o. composition for crumhorn and voice, Japanese monastic flute work and post-colonial noise.

23/02/2024

We are back tomorrow for the second weekend of relaunch of the radio.
Tune in from 10am and come and grab some coffee and sit on the terrasse of while listening to good music ✨

Also subscribe to our newsletter for more info

14/02/2024

✨ We are back on air ✨
Tune in this weekend, 17th and 18th, and next, 24th and 25th of February as we will broadcast live from the booth and we will soft launch our new equipment 🙌
and will open the festivities from 11am.

⭐️ is the Creative Director of Studio Camo, a Margate based design and branding studio, and also the founder of Margate Radio, which he set up during the first lockdown.
Once a regular DJ at the legendary Plastic People, Paul has hosted show on NTS Radio since 2012. He has also curated the music for the Turner Prize opening event at Turner Contemporary, NTS X Tate Late, Somerset House, and djed for Thom Yorke’s new band The Smile and performed in the Tom Skinner band at Church of Sound. Paul has curated selections for clothes designer Nicholas Daley and
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⭐️ Hollow Gold (Al Shyy) is an American-born, Taiwanese-heritage, UK-naturalized maker and business strategist based in Margate. They hosted The Note Well’s Speed Listening series from 2010-2016, as featured in Time Out, the Financial Times online, and James Blunt’s Twitter feed.

Al enjoys drawing guinea pigs while listening to smooth and unsmooth jazz, and taking long walks on the beach with a species-fluid pugzu named Quiche.
Their Margate Radio show, Groove Talkin’ with Hollow Gold, features Western minority-forward tunes across eras and genres.

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… and many more hosts and music 🙂

Listen via the website or

10/02/2024

⭐ We are back ⭐

Thank you all for your support and we are getting ready to return.
With your help, we reached our target and raised £11,365 (£10,264 after taxes) during our community crowdfunding campaign and we were able to invest in new equipment and other running costs such as licensing, website, producing costs...
To remind you, Margate Radio CIC (Community Interest Company) is a volunteer-run, independent, licensed internet radio station founded in 2020. Margate Radio is a platform to create and distribute content that celebrates and connects our seaside town Margate in Kent, England.
We broadcast new content on weekends, with previous broadcasts by regular hosts available for free.
Our values come from our representative community survey in 2023, and are simply “Community,” “Diversity,” and “More.”

We will be back next weekend to soft launch the new equipment, so share the news and tune in.

You can also subscribe to our newsletter to know a bit more about the line-up and other info.

Thanks again!

04/10/2023

WE DID IT!

Thanks to all of you who donated, shared and campaigned alongside us, we have hit our target!

This money will allow us to replace the studio equipment and will pay for overheads for one year.

We’ll keep the campaign open for another week so anyone that wanted to donate still can. Whatever extra funds we receive will go toward overheads for year two.

We’re looking forward to getting back on the airwaves, stay tuned for updates.

Huge love to all of the Margate Radio family that have made this possible.

Margate Radio loves you and you have shown us so much love in return. Thank you.

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02/10/2023

Some more blue spotted around town💙

Huge love to all the businesses that have supported us. We're all so lucky to call the Margate community home

SAVE OUR STATION by donating or sharing through the link in our bio

02/10/2023

You may have seen the flyers around town already, we have such a wonderful community standing behind us. Pictured are just a few of the local legends with the SOS signal in their windows

Thank you to everyone that has donated, spread the word or shown us love in any other way so far. Let's keep it going and SAVE OUR STATION

Donate through the link in our bio or via our site www.margateradio.com

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22/09/2023

The SAVE MARGATE RADIO crowdfunding campaign is now live. Follow the link in our bio to donate to help us achieve our goal and keep the station running.

Achieving our funding goal will not only allow us to replace our studio equipment and secure our station's future but will also empower us to broaden our horizons.

This includes delivering broader content and fostering deeper community engagement and ensuring Margate Radio remains a symbol of unity and creativity.

SAVE OUR STATION. Donate now.

21/09/2023

Dan Carson () host of Broken Window on Margate Radio

"I’m amazingly grateful to Margate Radio for giving me an opportunity to challenge myself creatively and to push myself well out of my comfort zone (broadcasting live is something I’d never thought I’d be able to do). The station punches well above its weight and I’m delighted to contribute in my small way amongst dozens of other talented locals. Margate Radio is already a great community platform and its accessibility and reach gives it potential to amplify all the other incredible stuff happening in and by the town. An absolute treasure!

The radio station has grown steadily and solidly since its birth. The radio station is NOT just for the ‘In crowd’ or ‘cool kids’ of Margate-which is what some chose to believe. Paul and team have taken time to reach out and curate shows from people across the community. The beauty of a local radio station is the community associations and programs which can be implemented through collaborative associations with local people (colleges, community groups etc) whether creative, social, political or just for the sheer joy!"

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20/09/2023

Jah B host of Reggaes Authentic Soulful Sounds (RASS) on Margate Radio

"Margate Radio is platform for local Disc Jockeys, Presenters to deliver positive Messages and themselves MUZICALLY and engage withthe wider Thanet community to educate the younger generation about our Past, Present and Bright Future through MUZIK."

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19/09/2023

Message from Reggy Brown () pictured here with James Jordan Johnson ()

"Hey, this is Reggy Brown, host of the spin on Margate Radio. You might have heard my voice every second Saturday morning and I'm here to say Margate Radio needs your help. Currently, the future of Margate Radio is unstable and we don't have any gear to do live radio anymore.

For those of you that don't know, Margate Radio is a community station and it's volunteer run with amazing volunteers behind the scenes and it's listener funded; we really need your help to keep community stations alive. The reason why Margate Radio is so important to me is because at a time during lockdown where I felt disconnected from where I was living, as a listener I really felt connected listening to everyone's shows and the eclecticness of different communities. I was really excited to step in and live in a town where I felt like everyone could be heard. So then I became a DJ, and now I get to connect with people over music and it gives everyone a space in a world that feels kind of isolating sometimes.

So I'm here to say please, we need your help. You can help by heading on over to www.margateradio.co.uk and make sure to sign up to our newsletter. Keep an eye out with how you can help, or if you'd like to donate, please feel free to do so. This community station really brings me joy and I hope it's brought you a lot of joy listening in. So yeah, keep community stations alive."

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Margate Radio invites you to a special album launch event this Saturday (April 29th) at Where Else. Tune in live at 10am-12pm as Reggy chats with Hughie Gavin and Yuri Suzuki about the project and their collaboration. Then at 12pm we invite you to join us for a special performance by the Margate Social Singing Choir. The whole event will be broadcast live on margateradio.co.uk **************************************************************************************** The Welcome Chorus is an A.I. generated music album created by Yuri Suzuki and the Margate Social Singing Choir and was commissioned for the Turner Prize exhibition at Turner Contemporary in 2019. The record beautifully merges the real with the artificial into an anthem created by A.I. using the voices and words of over 3000 people. Five of the most significant pieces were selected for the album. The A side of the record presents the original A.I. sound files created by the algorithm, and the B side presents the choral arrangements by Hughie Gavin with the Margate Social Singing Choir. The two sides share the same MIDI data and lyrics but highlight a beautiful contrast between human and A.I. voices. **************************************************************************************** See you all on Saturday at WhereElse

Tonight's the night...Margate Radio's Christmas party Elsewhere is here Dj's from 7pm The mighty Pigeon on stage around 9.30pm Get there early. Purchase tickets http://link.dice.fm/R7MWvjUV7kb Few more tickets available on the door. FULL LINE UP Upstairs: Jack Goldstein James Jordan Johnson Reggy Robbie Redway Downstairs: Inky Pigeon (Live) Yuri Suzuki Jaw-G