Late January 2001 I started setting up my own Internet radio, which I called Trondheim Underground Radio (TUR). Mostly because I had an old computer which I wanted to use for something, and I wanted to combine playing with this computer and my interest in music. I had been listening to similar radios on the Internet (indiepopradio.com was my main inspiration at first), so setting up my own could be fun I thought.

This project was started without any thought about what it should be in the future. It was merely me fooling around, to see how my old computer would perform when streaming music, but after a while it ended up serving a small community of people. I quickly realized that I didn’t want to run an ordinary Internet radio, but instead wanted TUR to be some kind of portal to the living "forest" of small underground bands in the middle part of Norway. This shouldn’t be only my own project, but a joint effort by the artists and myself to promote music and activity in the region. In addition to the music being played day and night, the other aspect of TUR is information that is available. If someone listen to a band they like, they’re only a mouse click away from more information about the band.

In addition to streaming music TUR is trying to be some kind of entrance to the music community of this part of Norway. We have forums to discuss events and concerts, related problems, ways of getting support for your band, do promotion, sell stuff, etc. We try to give pointers to related information. To summarize: We try to be some kind of hub to the community in this part of Norway.

Several people have contributed to this project. I'm kind of responsible for running it, but remember: This is a spare time project of mine, so don't expect to much from TUR.

June 2007
On behalf of Foreningen Trondheim Underground Radio (Org.number: 983 805 523)
- Lon