Here’s a great article about Fip from the website slate.fr
http://m.slate.fr/story/151271/fip-radio-jack-dorsey-fipettes
Here’s a great article about Fip from the website slate.fr
http://m.slate.fr/story/151271/fip-radio-jack-dorsey-fipettes
FIP radio is really one of a kind. I don’t believe I haver ever come upon a radio station that has absolutely no publicity, zero. Its eclectic mix of music suits me perfectly. I personally have a diverse background, although I have lived 12 out of the last 15 years in Paris.
Yesterday, while at work, I heard this song: (it’s actually a poem written by Shel Sylverstein author of “A light in the Attic”, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, “The Giving tree”……books that marked my childhood and maybe yours too…..)
THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN – Marianne Faithful, 1979
The morning sun touched lightly on
The eyes of Lucy Jordan
In a white suburban bedroom
In a white suburban town
And she lay there ‘neath the covers
Dreaming of a thousand lovers
‘Til the world turned to orange
And the room went spinning round
At the age of 37
She…
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drinking it all in... bikes and beverages in Bordeaux
In my opinion FIP is as close to perfection as radio stations get, and I can’t recommend it highly enough.
You can listen to it here… just scroll to the bottom of the page and écouter direct.
The songs never seem to have much in common, except that they are all interesting and top quality. The presenters don’t say too much but just enough to let you know they are there at the helm. They’ve got you. Plus there are no adverts. Fantastic!
Warning: it may be a little bit too jazzy for some people’s tastes.
This sums up the love for Fip quite nicely 📻
Announcing special offer!
Two pounds off the face price of each ticket for this event if you mention LOVEFIP when purchasing!
IT’S THE SUMMER OF FIP….still!
SATURDAY 18TH JULY 9-2.
Bastille Day Vive La Fip Spectacular!
£12/10 CONC.
Upstairs at the Komedia.
Box office 01273 647101
It’s sad news I’m afraid (unless anybody knows any better).
You can’t get Fip anymore through the S60 Radio application, since they moved the location of their stream.
Everything we’ve tried seems to have failed 😦
So for the moment it’s au revoir Fip on your mobile.
We’re having a little play around with the website, so please don’t panic if things don’t look quite right. They’ll be fixed soon!
Rough Music, Brighton’s trouble makin’, dirt diggin’ monthly(ish) newsletter wrote their opinion of “Iain Smith” in a column they call, well actually it’s a bit rude so we won’t repeat it, but you can find it here.
Here’s what they said:
In a first for RM, this month we’re giving the crown to…er, we’re not sure who really. Basically this month’s wanker is whichever killjoy is responsible for shutting down Brighton’s only decent radio station. No, we don’t mean Radio 4a (never a byword for quality, just check out that Rough Music show at 1pm on the 2nd Sunday of the month and you’ll appreciate what we mean), although they’ve had transmitters busted / nicked lately too – but those Gallic tune-sters at FIP. Since one enthusiast community hero from Hanover began relaying the signal of the French-based station around town, Brightonians have enjoyed a decade of eclectic vibes, without the crass ads and inane egos of UK presenters.
Now those halcyon days are over- the station busted and the transmitter seized…But who is to blame? Jobsworths at Ofcom? They say acted on a complaint – but who from? Jealous Brighton stations like Southern, Juice or the newly-licensed Radio Reverb have been suggested by some conspiracy theorists (others are already blaming the lizards) or was it just one mean-spirited local who just couldn’t bear the thought of those poor commercial stations and their advertisers losing a few choice-starved listeners to an improperly regulated bunch of Frogs?
Sadly it might be the latter – step forward Hove resident Iain Smith, who announced on one pirate-radio internet forum (to an audience of tens, no doubt) that he did in fact grass the station up to Ofcom, “just make sure it wasn’t unfairly competing with properly licensed stations”. It sparked a torrent of abuse from other users, including one who asked, “do you spend all day taking pictures of people dropping litter? calling the benefit fraud hotline when you see a single mum having a bloke stay a few nights; ringing in to shop the neighbours during a hose pipe ban?” Mr Smith established his brain-dead credentials by coolly replying, “You think its OK for people to defraud the welfare system and deprive people genuinely in need of money?…and do you really want to see your streets covered with litter?” He also claimed to have “personal reasons” for disliking the French, although this wasn’t the only reason for his civic-minded action.
Whilst some on the forum have doubted his complain-to-fame as genuine, and merely the desperate move of an attention-seeker, we at RM have seen enough (his latest posts have been singing the praises of dead-at-last bloated bigoted comedy dinosaur Bernard Manning) – either way, Iain, you’re definitely…a WANKER!
P.S. you can still get F.I.P at http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/endirect
PPS. does anyone out there know Iain, or more specifically if he filed his tax return accurately and on time this year?