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monster
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 1838
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, January 8, 2006 - 7:50 pm: |     |
just in case you may want to give it a listen, if you didn't already know about it....
http://radiocaroline.servemp3.com/
just click the stream that works for you....
Radio Caroline history, http://66.132.250.193/history.asp |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 109
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 9, 2006 - 6:29 pm: | |
Cool. I used to listen to Caroline as a kid. It occasionally went off the air when they were being chased by Royal Navy gunships. Apparently they had a lot of issues maintaing their anchor just outside British waters and would drift into waters where they were illegal. |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 693
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 9:13 pm: | |
Me, too. I just got the John Peel tribute cd from my parents...of course, he was already at Radio One by the time I started listening to him. I was probably too young for the glory days of Radio Caroline where he got his start. |
Miss L Toe
Citizen
Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 430
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 9:43 pm: | |
I can't remember listening to Radio Caroline but I did listen to Radio Luxembourg. I'd just turned 16 and the DJ on Radio Luxembourg was crying his eyes out on air as he announced that Elvis was dead.
Does anyone remember the DJ Stuart Henry? I think he was on Luxembourg and possibly on non-prime time slots on Radio 1...he talked in a slow drawl and it was eventually revealed that he had Mutliple Sclerosis, which he succumbed to.
Bookgal: What is the John Peel tribute CD like? Who is on it? (I bet Joy Division is).
I wonder how many Brits live in this area....never really seem to meet any yet I know there is a decent-sized expat population in the NY metro area. |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 110
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 5:54 pm: | |
Radio Lux tended to be a hip version of Radio One primarily playing "pop" music and whatever happened to be in the charts. The really good music, only album tracks, was Radio North Sea International. |
Miss L Toe
Citizen
Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 432
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 6:07 pm: | |
Never heard of that radio station. Where did it transmit from....Hull?
As I grew up in Coventry I couldn't have been any further from the sea! The nearest seaside towns were either Skegness in Linconshire or Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset.
I don't know if any Brits here have heard of Belle and Sebastian (John Peel liked them a lot) but they're doing a US tour in late Feb/March and are appearing in New York:
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/home.php
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/band.php
http://www.belleandsebastian.com/tour.php
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LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 111
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 6:21 pm: | |
North Sea Int'l were a pirate station, like Caroline, and broadcast from a boat, I believe, off the Holland coast. They've been off the air for many years. I think their boat sank in a storm....I'll look it up.
PS, I've never heard of Belle and Sebastion |
LazyDog
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Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 112
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 6:26 pm: | |
Just listened to a few snippets of Belle..on iTunes music store. Not bad. They remind me of another band from years ago ....can't remember !!! |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 113
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 6:34 pm: | |
http://www.davesden.fsnet.co.uk/rni.html |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 694
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 8:52 pm: | |
I love Belle & Sebastian, have done ever since Tiger Milk. I am not sure how I feel about seeing them without Isobel, hmmm.....
Miss L Toe, yes, Lazy Line Painter Jane is on the Peel CD. (Belle & Sebastian)
The cd is pretty eclectic ..shocker, huh? 2 Cds from Lonnie Donegan, Bowie, Tim Buckley, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, The Clash , The Ramones,Tyrannosaurus Rex, Joy Division and New Order and more on the first CD. Second CD starts with The Undertones (of course, Peel always loved Teenage Kicks), Altered Images, The Cocteau Twins, Jesus and Mary Chain, Pulp, The Fall, Super Furry Animals, The Delgados, Belle & Sebastian and many more.
I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg when I was a kid. |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 695
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 9:01 pm: | |
Well, they have a great band supporting them so..very, very tempting. Yup, might have to go and bring the sprog.
Thanks for the heads up Miss L Toe. |
Miss L Toe
Citizen
Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 433
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 7:44 am: | |
I had an e-mail from another British expat yesterday to say that one of his favourite British band, 'The Wedding Present' will be performing in March at Maxwells in Hoboken.
I also noticed that Chris Difford (ex-'Squeeze') is also on at Maxwells in April (see link and look to the right for upcoming events):
http://www.maxwellsnj.com/
bummer....I'm getting old - I don't recognise the other bands listed there! I used to like a band called 'The Higsons' back in the early 80s and had a shock to see Charlie Higson as a dodgy car dealer on a comedy show with Paul Whitehouse...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/profiles/charlie_higson.shtml
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Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 45
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 9:32 pm: | |
Just to add another 'me too'... although the Radio Caroline I used to listen to was the in the 1980s, when I was growing up in Essex County (little did I realize that I would end up in another Essex County three thousand miles away 20 years later!).
... now, did anyone ever use to listen to Laser558? |
LazyDog
Citizen
Username: Lazydog
Post Number: 117
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:55 pm: | |
Laser558 was just starting when I left the UK. Was it similar to Caroline ? |
Miss L Toe
Citizen
Username: Miss_l_toe
Post Number: 440
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 11:19 pm: | |
Jason....although I didn't grow up in Essex (neither did my husband) we moved from London out to a village in the Epping Forest area to raise our family. We still have our house there which we rent out...so have homes in Essex UK and Essex county, NJ!
By a srange coincidence when I was at Newark airport yesterday a guy bumped into me....he recognised me immediately and it turned out it was the former teenage lad from our village who used to wash our car for some pocket money...he's now 30 with kids of his own!
I can't remember Laser 558 but do remember car stickers with the logo....used to mainly listen to Capital Radio (Chris Tarrant on the morning show) and Greater London Radio - GLR (now Radio London.)
I must be getting old...I like listening to Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 online..!!! |
Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 46
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 9:31 am: | |
LazyDog - Laser558 was what I could only describe as a 'Top 40' station with a very US-style presentation. Completely different to anything else around at the time!
You can read more about the station at http://www.laser558.org/
Miss L Toe - nice to meet a fellow Essex person! I grew up on Canvey Island, to a bit further east from Epping Forest. As far as listening to Steve Wright goes - that's not a problem! Actually some of my friends back in the UK (in their early thirties) have made the switch from listening to Radio 1, to listening to Radio 2 (they especially enjoy listening to Jonathan Ross).
Jason |
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