Radio Caroline is 50

BBC report today on the anniversary of Radio Caroline and some of the celebrations to the mark the occasion.

StartupBootcamp Partying the Night Away

Work hard, then play hard. StartupBoatcamp (sic) on board the good ship Lizboa, anchored in Amsterdam harbour just East of Central Station.

I see SBCBootcamp Cofounder and tonight's DJ Ruud Hendriks (ex newcaster/DJ Radio Caroline, Radio Mi Amigo in the late 1970's), is using some rather sophisticated DJ mixing software from a Berlin based company called Native Instruments.

Looks a lot better than some of the Windows based software I reviewed a few years back. Wonder what offshore radio would have sounded like if there has been Macs on board the pirate stations? Now that's a weird mashup of ideas...

Radio Caroline Remembered - Again

After a mini season on Forces Radio and Germany, August seems to be the month when we looked at off-shore radio. I've found an episode on Radio New York International, which is coming up. But this edition was crafted together with a big contribution from Nic Newman, at that time working for Radio Netherlands before going on to do great things at the BBC's Interactive Departments. He went out to the ship on one of the boats - pretty brave since we had some pretty dreadful storms in the summer of 1985. The show also looked at communications with the Space Shuttle and there are tuning tips from Arthur Cushen, Victor Goonetilleke and Sarath Weerakoon. I know that off-shore radio editions seem to score as some of the highest in the download figures, so let's see what this one does. Enjoy.

Direct download: MN.01.08.1985CarolineShuttle.mp3