Pirate radio
Posted: Saturday, 25 August 2007 |
7 comments |
Well long time no write, sorry. Well I have had my statutary few days south at Cropredy Festival, ( a popular gathering that is centred on the music of Fairport Convention) but that is of little consequence. No what i want to chat about is pirate radio. At the festival amongst the stalls selling all the gegaws that one expects to find catering for a lost generation that is attracted to anything with a rainbow on it was a stall for Radio Caroline. Yes that Radio Caroline! Seems they are still going strong with broadcasting on the net now, but they still have their ship, the Ross Revenge, (the Mia Amigo sunk if you remember). Anyway having been an avid listener to Caroline south in my formative years I had a few happy memories chatting about old times. One does that sort of thing at my time of life, now less of your cheek. Anyway the old Communucator came up for discussion (that is the one that was/is at St Margerets Hope) and what a shame it was that it is to be broken up. For younger readers the pirate ships were radio stations that set up broadcasting off shore before the days of Radio1,2,3,4 etc when the only pop music to be heard in these sceptered isles came waffting over from Radio Luxemberg, and I do mean waffting, or for half an hour or so on a saturday morning with Jack Jackson. Naturaly that old tory Sir Anthony Wedgewood Benn, later to become plane old Tony Benn, as post master general put a stop to it and Radio 1 et al were born. Now as I sat in the festival field listening to Fairport and The Strawbs, and in past years The String Band etc I fell to thinking that but for dear old John Peel bobbing about on the waves with The Perfumed Garden (his show) on his pirate ship the M,V, Galaxy I would never have heard of these bands. So cheers John and thanks pirates.
T.V. programs to come, :-
Celebraty Car swop, Clarkson gets Hawkings wheel chair for a week and Stephen gets a GT 40
Celebrety Blender swop, top chefs use other peoples food mixers
other suggestions welcome.
thats your lot.
p.s. anyone know where you can get a valve amp checked over in Orkney?
Posted on From under me bonnet at 21:16
Comments
Pirate radio: good heavens, that's a blast from the past. Also Radio Luxembourg. You had to work hard at listening to music in those days, as all you got on the 91热爆 was Saturday Club and Pick of the Pops, and Juke Box Jury on TV. <bangs zimmer frame in time to music> :-)
Jill from EK
Who was Jack Jackson???? Celebrity Nose Swap might be fun...Charlie Watts X Michael Jackson...at least I know who he is.
Flying Cat from in awe and shock
jill : you forgot about the 6 5 special--i remember the begininng of it a bloody great locomotive semed to come out of the tv screen -then there was ready steady go-- HELP!!--i am getting old-find me the box of keenex--oops used them up! where's my zimmer:
carol from over here
Ready Steady Go - the weekend starts here! And indeed it did ...
Jill from EK
Fpu thinks they didn't have wekends in swinging uptown Ruglen...poor thing...
Flying Cat from be-bop-a-lulu
and, Jill and Carol, was the t.v. a dull white and grey colour? Ah happy days. Now here we are talking to each other in colour with a hundred type faces to choose from.
Paul from Hoy
paul yes it was and i remember it had a row of ridges round the bottem of it and if russ conway i us to let my fingers go over them and used to me grandparents i'm playing the piano too,then watch with mother,andy pandy,and bill and ben ,sniff sniff
carol from over here
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