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Simon Evans, a London DJ from Bromley has launched a controversial new online radio station which he has titled Neighbours Radio. The station is being part run by the DJ and is going out live from his home every night from midnight. It is broadcast both on an illegally modified itrip transmitter conencted to a car battery and streamed on the web.
The station has a policy of playing nothing but a combination of dance music and metal and this DJ doesn't use headphones, instead he uses his bass reflex Denon Hi-Fi.
His immediate neighbours of course weren't happy about it at all, after threatening to come round to put an end to the Denon kit and sabotage his phone line, they tried to use a court injunction to revoke Evans' internet connection and to put a stop to the mysterious vibrations around their houses at 3AM.
The DJ, Simon Evans claims he started Neighbours Radio because he suffers from acute insomnia and that in response his neighbours grew a conifer so high that it brushed against his bedroom window. He had a large CD collection and several thousands of MP3's downloaded from various sources including Rapidshare and Limewire, so he decided to put them to good use. In its time on air the station has developed a considerable listenership on the web and around the Bromley area due to it's specialised hardcore dance blended with heavy metal. "it is particularly popular with late night taxi drivers" he says.
Meanwhile the decision is pending as to whether the PRS should rip up his internet broadcast license and whether the ISP should cut off his internet connection.
The DJ's Neighbours, Mr & Mrs Pendlesbury also were keen to point out that he hoovered at 5AM and was caught training his dog to bark at 4AM.
And on one New Year's Eve, he allegedly did a Neighbours Radio broadcast from the roof, placing speakers on the tiles, one neighbour who lives across the street said "Neighbours Radio is deafening, nevermind the ridiculously illegal broadcasts on FM I can hear it clearly without even turning on the radio but when I do turn the stereo on and tune it to Neighbours Radio it's so loud that it's distorted"
Outside of court Evans' declined to comment except to say "catch the mix in the house every night from 2AM!, it's massif innit!".
Simon Evans, a London DJ from Bromley has launched a controversial new online radio station which he has titled Neighbours Radio. The station is being part run by the DJ and is going out live from his home every night from midnight. It is broadcast both on an illegally modified itrip transmitter conencted to a car battery and streamed on the web.
The station has a policy of playing nothing but a combination of dance music and metal and this DJ doesn't use headphones, instead he uses his bass reflex Denon Hi-Fi.
His immediate neighbours of course weren't happy about it at all, after threatening to come round to put an end to the Denon kit and sabotage his phone line, they tried to use a court injunction to revoke Evans' internet connection and to put a stop to the mysterious vibrations around their houses at 3AM.
The DJ, Simon Evans claims he started Neighbours Radio because he suffers from acute insomnia and that in response his neighbours grew a conifer so high that it brushed against his bedroom window. He had a large CD collection and several thousands of MP3's downloaded from various sources including Rapidshare and Limewire, so he decided to put them to good use. In its time on air the station has developed a considerable listenership on the web and around the Bromley area due to it's specialised hardcore dance blended with heavy metal. "it is particularly popular with late night taxi drivers" he says.
Meanwhile the decision is pending as to whether the PRS should rip up his internet broadcast license and whether the ISP should cut off his internet connection.
The DJ's Neighbours, Mr & Mrs Pendlesbury also were keen to point out that he hoovered at 5AM and was caught training his dog to bark at 4AM.
And on one New Year's Eve, he allegedly did a Neighbours Radio broadcast from the roof, placing speakers on the tiles, one neighbour who lives across the street said "Neighbours Radio is deafening, nevermind the ridiculously illegal broadcasts on FM I can hear it clearly without even turning on the radio but when I do turn the stereo on and tune it to Neighbours Radio it's so loud that it's distorted"
Outside of court Evans' declined to comment except to say "catch the mix in the house every night from 2AM!, it's massif innit!".
Outraged letters to the editor of a local newspaper from where the show originates..
Dear Bromley Echo
“I am writing in order to convey the outrage of a small residential street of Bromley where I live. We are a group of semi-detatched houses with moderately sized gardens, there are a few trees and the property value of the area is actually quite considerable. However all this recently started to change when a certain neighbour named Simon Evans moved in. Now every night from after Midnight comes an earsplitting row from his house. I am just settling into sleep when Dizzee Rascal echoes across the street.
We the residents are usually subjected to hours of dance mixed with thrash metal from the wee hours into the morning light, little bits of voice which sound like a fairground announcer come over, and I for one believe banging my head against my bedpost would be a better night's sleep”.
Angry Percy Whitehall.
“I am writing in order to convey the outrage of a small residential street of Bromley where I live. We are a group of semi-detatched houses with moderately sized gardens, there are a few trees and the property value of the area is actually quite considerable. However all this recently started to change when a certain neighbour named Simon Evans moved in. Now every night from after Midnight comes an earsplitting row from his house. I am just settling into sleep when Dizzee Rascal echoes across the street.
We the residents are usually subjected to hours of dance mixed with thrash metal from the wee hours into the morning light, little bits of voice which sound like a fairground announcer come over, and I for one believe banging my head against my bedpost would be a better night's sleep”.
Angry Percy Whitehall.
“I am writing in regard to DJ Simon Evans who as you know broadcasts live from his home to an audience of several hundred thousand. His home radio station isn't exactly discrete though, he broadcasts using a state of the art Denon system which has speakers bolstered into it which are half the size of a wall of a house. Though usually based in his bedroom, Evans' has been known to take his show external broadcasting deafening audio garbage from a speaker resting on the chimneypot.
Not a thought is given to those that are illfated enough to surround him, and those whose property values have taken a skydive after a local newspaper publicised the station (Neighbours Radio)We have tried to put a stop to his activities in court. But he has continually ignored police, a county court judge and even a fire crew in his absurd resolve to go on with his unbelievable radio station of ignorance and contempt.
Now as an insult to injury, he has taken his regular TV Aerial down and replaced it with a pole resembling a cellular phone mast which he has glued to his external brickwork in an effort so it's believed that his show can still be received in as far as Ipswich.
I am writing in the hope that a campaign can be started in this newspaper, to end Infernal Racket Radio , or as some neighbours have put it(Rather Listen To A Cat In Agony Radio).
Not a thought is given to those that are illfated enough to surround him, and those whose property values have taken a skydive after a local newspaper publicised the station (Neighbours Radio)We have tried to put a stop to his activities in court. But he has continually ignored police, a county court judge and even a fire crew in his absurd resolve to go on with his unbelievable radio station of ignorance and contempt.
Now as an insult to injury, he has taken his regular TV Aerial down and replaced it with a pole resembling a cellular phone mast which he has glued to his external brickwork in an effort so it's believed that his show can still be received in as far as Ipswich.
I am writing in the hope that a campaign can be started in this newspaper, to end Infernal Racket Radio , or as some neighbours have put it(Rather Listen To A Cat In Agony Radio).
I actually live next door to this guy, Mercifully not the adjoining wall, but the other side. Nevertheless the living room still feels like a broken funfair ride whenever this radio station starts. I have given up trying to sleep normally at night, I have now taken up nights in a factory, it is a lot superior to being at home I tell you. It was that is, until last Monday when I got back from work at 10AM and settled down in bed to get my days' sleep before the next shift. Just as I pulled the covers over the walls started to rumble then the next thing I heard was "the Bank Holiday special, Neighbours Radio goes 24/7", I fistgrindedly wished guns were legal in Britain, but I resolved to get one anyway. I am afraid that at this point I went outside and found a pile of bricks and then did the obvious with it”
But One resident did more
News Story from The Bromley Echo:
A London DJ Simon Evans, the owner and broadcaster of Neighbours Radio which goes out live nightly from his home, has allegedly received death threats and bomb threats from his vigilante counterparts in the local area. The threatening phone calls allegedly received have caused alarm with the area's public servants.
Mr Simon Evans was quoted as saying "I have a different postman every week, when they learn it's my house on their rounds they refuse to do the round in case they're carrying a Kabul no more or a diseaseolope."
Neighbours Radio whose broadcasting hours were 2am-6am, has recently gone 24/7 to the delight of fans, but to the disgust of virtually the whole of the Bromley area.
One neighbour said "he must be buying more and more powerful amplifiers, because it's getting louder every week"
Another local resident said "The vibrations from the speakers have put a crack in my house".
Neighbours Radio's extended hours have already caused the situation to start to come to a head in the area, yesterday morning a Ford Sierra with no numberplates drove into the side of Mr Evans house, the masked driver then exited the car, brought a compact ladder out of the boot and ascended to Mr Evans' roof and then went on to severely vandalise the transmitter. The Ford Sierra caught fire and was gutted, police have not been able to identify its owner or the driver.
DJ Simon Evans declined to comment except to say "that as long as it's a free country, I'll continue to provide free music"
The neighbours are trying to get yet another injunction and some who have joined militaristic vigilante groups have gone on try much more, the story continues...
we will endeavour to bring you the latest.
The outraged postbag to the paper has been filled with many letters..
The first letter is from a Mr Edward Stourhill who lives close to Evans.
"I have followed the court case with interest, however it is a verdict which has left me with little or no faith in our justice system. As we have no real noise legislation, the court had little to throw at Evans, even though the judge really wanted to.
However his erecting of a colossal satellite dish may prove to be his undoing, as it directly contravenes local planning laws, I have heard that the dish in addition to receiving TV Broadcasts from the Middle East, will be used as a transmitter for the station. I have heard on the grapevine that Evans is applying for an RSL off the Radio Authority in addition to the internet broadcasts after the positive outcome of his case, but upon tuning my Denon SQR747 FM tuner at 4AM when I had nothing better to do, I discovered Neighbours Radio broadcasting pirate. I decided to report this, because any further illegal activitiy will get the authorities' backs up. This situation of noise at night and a legal system powerless to do anything about could only exist in Britain. Down with capitalism"
Editor - "Your views are based on hearsay and are not much use to our readers. Your letter is mainly crap, also your political motivations are not welcome here, this has regretfully caused me to ban any further letters from you to the paper. The paper's auto letter shredder will now activate upon detection of your name".
The next letter is from a Samuel Underhill.
"I run a nursery class close to the location of Neighbours Radio, and children who come from that street come in each morning bleary eyed. When asked why they didn't get much sleep they just reply with the jingle from Neighbours Radio. One lives so close that the transmissions resonate in his watch. The magistrata at the local court did not consider the broader social aspect of Mr Simon Evans' activities. Though I normally listen to Radio 4 and watch Question Time every Thursday, I will be one of the local activitists ready to drive my car into Evans' wall".
"I run a nursery class close to the location of Neighbours Radio, and children who come from that street come in each morning bleary eyed. When asked why they didn't get much sleep they just reply with the jingle from Neighbours Radio. One lives so close that the transmissions resonate in his watch. The magistrata at the local court did not consider the broader social aspect of Mr Simon Evans' activities. Though I normally listen to Radio 4 and watch Question Time every Thursday, I will be one of the local activitists ready to drive my car into Evans' wall".
Another letter, it comes from the street's oldest resident Hilary Jacques (102)
"I am 102, and so as a consequence don't have any hearing, however my sense of touch has not declined in my winter years.
In my bed at 2AM on a night of broadcast my bed shakes like it's in Kobe, Japan at the time of an earthquake.
I have never wanted to live in an old folks home, as I took part in the London Marathon every year until I was 93, but I will now do anything to get away from that monster Evans".
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"I am 102, and so as a consequence don't have any hearing, however my sense of touch has not declined in my winter years.
In my bed at 2AM on a night of broadcast my bed shakes like it's in Kobe, Japan at the time of an earthquake.
I have never wanted to live in an old folks home, as I took part in the London Marathon every year until I was 93, but I will now do anything to get away from that monster Evans".
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The story has even made The Sun
LAST NIGHT A DJ WRECKED MY LIFE
Police in what was formerly the sleepy London suburb of Bromley are now being issued riot gear, and in their possession has also come CS Spray and Tear Gas, because the street of Simon Evans is beginning to resemble a crowd of the rowdiest England football supporters in front of vulnerable Euro supporters.
The local residents surrounding the broadcasts of Neighbours Radio have changed from quiet members of the rat race of suburbia to ubiquitous thugs sporting baseball bats and spikes in their shoes. Tonight (Saturday) a crowd is gathering outside Evans' home and he is in the process of barricading himself in to prepare himself for the broadcast. Evans has had personal threats of violence and his postman reports mail intended for 'Evans being ripped from his bag one morning by a crazed vigilante and strewn across the street. The anti-Evans crowd fed up to the back teeth of his nightly broadcasts of Neighbours Radio that can be heard clearly half a mile away, are holding a vigil involving a bonfire and an effigy of Evans and radios and Walkmans are being rituallistically smashed down on the street. But if this wasn't enough, hardcore fans of Neighbours Radio are also planning a demonstration to retain the radio station and have already had clashes with police. Neighbours Radio has built up a fanbase from all across the country, and the Pro-Evans and Pro-Neighbours Radio brigade have come down to London on coaches and buses, some of them have claimed to be armed. The use of the word uproar might not be enough to describe the clashes of this group and the local residents..
The story continues... stay tuned for more.
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