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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Brassic FM review – pirate radio shoutouts form a fierce sense of community

Punky … Zainab Hasan in Brassic FM.
Punky … Zainab Hasan in Brassic FM. Photograph: Craig Sugden

Brassic FM is the kind of pirate station you might tune into while twiddling the controls of an old radio – a subculture as much as a station existing within the static. It is represented by keyboards strapped to a shopping trolley in this inventive, music-filled production, which takes us back to the makeshift, below-the-radar mobility of such stations.

Co-created by director Stef O’Driscoll and writer Zia Ahmed, the production embodies the fierce sense of community in such subterranean set-ups. As the DJ tells his listeners: “This is our time, our city.”

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