Rinse FM: 'Radio, not the internet, gave me my break,' says Katy B

Urban music's chart power is thanks in no small part to ex-pirate station Rinse FM. On its 18th birthday, we learn how it climbed from tower blocks to the very topDJ Geeneus is remembering the first ever Rinse FM radio broadcast, as a pirate station, in September 1994. "One of my friends got their first flat, so we were like, Great, we'll stick the studio in the kitchen, 'cause you're not going to be using your kitchen that much… We was 18 floors up and we put the aerial out the balcony window...

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