It has improved certainly Ger - Catherine and I went out to the ship for a visit during our honeymoon in 2015 (clearly the ideal romantic getaway location!!) and I was very impressed with how clean and liveable it was compared to when I had last been on board on that visit with you.
It's nice, also, that you have to get to it by boat, adds back some of the authenticity.
Steve
Not tempted yourself, Steve, to do a stint on the Ross Revenge, if you were given the opportunity? I would definitely make a point of listening if you did, as I missed all your previous times with Caroline!
I was about to post the same thing... it would be great to hear you on the air and sea/river waves again. I could easily imagine you doing a night time prog on vinyl from The Overdrive Studio and throwing in a few memories of life on board in the 80's - Just what the 'North' weekends need. Have a word with Mr Foster.
Glad to hear you were back on board too .... and a woman who would take time out of her honeymoon to visit a pirate radio ship, is a rare find ... congratulations 😁
The next North schedule -- 16th/ 17th July.
Saturday 16th July
00:00 Continuous Caroline Music
06:00 John Ellery
08:30 Chris Williams - Carnaby Street
10:30 Dave Foster
13:30 Steve Bishop
16:30 Josh Holmes-Bright
19:00 Andrew Austin
21:00 Dave Foster
Sunday 17th July
00:00 Kevin Peters
03:00 Bill Rollins
06:00 Steve Jenner
09:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
13:00 Steve Bishop
16:00 Andrew Austin
19:00 Dave Foster
21:00 Close
Enjoy the week end .
Fund raising 3 days on Radio Caroline North.
Schedule :
Radio Caroline North: 12th 13th 14th August 2022
Friday 12th August
09:00 – 11:30 Chris Pearson
11:30 – 13:30 Josh Homes-Bright
13:30 - 15:30 Johnny Lewis
15:30 – 18:00 Nigel Harris
18:00 – 21:00 Dave Foster
21:00 – 00:00 Andrew Austin
Saturday 13th August
00:00 – 03:00 Josh Homes-Bright
03:00 – 06:00 Steve Jenner
06:00 – 08:30 Paul Brown
08:30 - 10:30 (Chris Williams Carnaby Street from Manx Radio)
10:30 – 13:00 Johnny Lewis
13:00 – 15:00 Nigel Harris
15:00 – 17:00 Josh Homes-Bright
17:00 – 19:00 Chris Pearson
19:00 - 21:00 Andrew Austin
21:00 - 00:00 Rob Ashard
Sunday 14th August
00:00 - 03:00 Dave Foster
03:00 - 06:00 Bill Rollins
06:00 - 09:00 Paul Brown
09:00 - 12:00 Johnny Lewis
12:00 – 15:00 Ray Clark
15:00 – 17:00 Rob Ashard
17:00 - 19:00 Andrew Austin
19:00 - 21:00 Chris Pearson
Taking a couple of minutes off from the service on TV .
The weekend schedule.
Saturday 24th September
13:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
16:00 Steve Jenner
19:00 Paul Brown
21:00 Andrew Austin
Sunday 25th September
06:00 Ray Clark
12:00 Paul Brown
15:00 Steve Jenner
17:00 Andrew Austin
Live stream --- http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1
Schedule for this weekend --
Saturday 15th October
12:30 Nigel Harris
14:30 Paul McKenna
17:00 Dave Sherwood
19:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
Sunday 16th October
00:00 Steve Jenner
03:00 Kevin Peters
06:00 Bill Rollins
09:00 Nigel Harris
12:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
15:00 Andrew Austin
18:00 Dave Foster
November link up with Manx Radio 19th / 20th November -- enjoy .
Schedule -
Saturday 19th November
10:30 Johnny Lewis
13:00 Steve Jenner
18:30 Steve Bishop
Sunday 20th November
09:00 Johnny Lewis
12:00 Steve Bishop
17:30 Steve Jenner
Nice to see Johnny Lewis and Ray Clark back on board for this one. :)
10th / 11th December on 1368khz ,samrt speakers,mobile phones and 648khz -- enjoy the weekend .
Schedule .
Saturday 10th December
13:00 Nigel Harris
16:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
Sunday 11th December
11:00 Nigel Harris
13:00 Andrew Austin
15:00 Ray Clark
21:00 Close.
Radio Caroline has announced that Emperor Rosko will be presenting breakfast programmes on each weekend of the Caroline North broadcasts scheduled for 2023.
Looks like they will be pre-records going out from 6am, presumably until Chris Williams takes over at 08:30, with his 'Carnaby Street' programme live from Manx Radio. Rosko's first programme will air on the first weekend of broadcasting from the ship in 2023, Saturday January 14th.
in the 1960's, Rosko presented for Caroline on the Mi Amigo, before becoming one of the launch line up on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. He also was heard in Dublin in the 1980's when he presented pre-recorded evening progs on Radio Nova, from his home in Los Angeles.
Great alakazm, the main man, is back! .... with music and rhymes to blow your mind! (or something like that :)
I remember Emperor Rosko on Friday evenings on Virgin 1215.
Schedule : An early one to catch Rosko and not sure if on 1368khz but 648khz on skywave should work at that time of day. This link normally becomes active on Friday evening so could be a place to listen. http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1
Saturday 14th January
06:00 Rosko
13:30 Paul Brown
16:30 Nigel Harris
Sunday 15th January
13:00 Paul Brown
15:00 Nigel Harris
Stream running
http://sc2.radiocaroline.net:8100/index.html?sid=1
Rosko's show .
Sadly 648khz had a transmitter failure -- but here is the show.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/rosko-north
Schedule for 11th / 12th February.
Saturday 11th February
12:30 Steve Jenner
14:30 Grant Benson
16:30 Steve Bishop
Sunday 12th February
06:00 Dave Foster
09:00 Grant Benson
12:00 Steve Jenner
15:00 Steve Bishop
648khz fault sorted and back on full power .
Have a great week end .
I see Dave Foster has three slots over those two days!
Schedule change -- now no Dave Foster at all ?
21:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
06:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
19:00 Johnny Lewis
Last update hopefully -- "programmes subject to change" !
15:00 Grant Benson
18:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
18:00 Johnny Lewis
Stream live -
Schedule for the weekend -- no Dave Foster .
Saturday 11th March
13:30 Ray Clark
15:30 Josh Holmes-Bright
18:00 Paul Brown
12:30 Ray Clark
15:30 Andrew Austin
17:30 Paul Brown
Great to see that Ray Clark will be on for both days - always worth a listen.
Sorry to see Dave Foster is still off, hope to hear him back on air soon. I met Dave on board The Ross when it was in Tilbury Dock back in 2004 and then later in Dublin at a tribute night for Tony Allan, he is a force of nature, a vital part of all activity on the ship when the broadcasts are on. I hope someone else is appointed to take over Beatles playing duties, until he returns :)
3 day Easter broadcast--
Schedule --
Friday 7th April
13:00 Roger Day
17:00 Josh Holmes-Bright
Saturday 8th April
00:00 Dave Foster
14:00 Roger Day
Sunday 9th April
03:00 Dave Foster
09:00 Roger Day
12:00 Ray Clark
15:00 Keith Rogers
Programmes subject to change.
Have a peaceful Easter
I have been listening in as much as I can, since Friday, Oscar .... one of the best line ups in a while.
Roger Day sounds like he has never been away. One of the highlights of my own radio activity was linking live to him from Phantom FM for an Anorak Hour interview when he was in Harwich Harbour aboard LV 18 for Pirate BBC Essex. He was a joy to chat to and is always enthusiastic about doing great radio. He also sounds exactly like he did in the 60's and 70's :)
Later today I am looking forward to hearing the great Ray Clark , followed by a Caroline debut from Keith Rogers of Radio North Sea International. If my memory still works, I think Keith was on board the RNI ship MeBo 2 when it was bombed in May 1971.
It is just a pity that Dave Foster is still off, he is missing a great weekend - I hope to hear him back on air soon.
A worthy mention to whoever runs Phone Fix Craft on The Crumlin Road in D 12. It was great to hear a Dublin business advert on Caroline North over the weekend. Fair play for providing some financial support.
The connection between Caroline and Ireland, isn't just related to its founder and the initial ship fit-out in Greenore Port. The Irish broadcast scene (radio and TV) owes a huge debt to the various Caroline people who started up and worked on some of the 70's and 80's Irish pirate radio stations. Even the very early pirate operators in the 1960's were influenced by listening to Caroline.
Caroline influenced Irish broadcasting in two waves, firstly in the 1960's when the likes of Ken Sheehan, Prince Terry, Davitt Kelly etc, set up low power early AM pirates to have a go at what they had heard on Caroline, and then the second wave hit in the early 1980's when Robbie Dale and Chris Cary arrived and set up the Superpirates Sunshine and Nova, with a crew of Caroline jocks that were at a loose end since the sinking of the Mi Amigo in 1980.
I always thought that it would be great to get The Ross in to Dublin for a temp licence run. Caroline left Ireland in 1964 and has never returned, it would be great to bring it home for a visit. I can imagine the ship tied up at North Wall Quay, just outside The Point.
Maybe if the restoration fund achieves it's aims and if the UK authorities allow it to leave UK waters again?
Ger Roe,
Thanks for the 2 great posts.
I wasn't able to listen as much as I'd liked over the week end due to stuff beyond my control but have caught the 2 Roger Day shows on https://www.woodleynet.co.uk/caroline/podcasts.htm#north.-- really enjoyable and hope he's on the Ross Revenge again in the future.
Manx Radio are going to trial DAB, with a view to making that the second service after FM, and replacing AM.
https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/manx-radio-granted-3-year-dab-licence/
Good for Manx Radio .... but bad for aging nostalgic anoraks. It would be sad to see 1368 go, but if I am being realistic, it is only a matter of time. We must enjoy the Caroline North AM broadcasts from Foxdale, while we can.
On the local news on Anglia TV 21 April, there was a feature about the Ross Revenge. Starts at around 12 minutes. As an aside there is an Irish woman, Aisling Creevey doing the weather, around 24 minutes.
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-05-04/catch-up-watch-the-most-recent-edition-of-itv-news-anglia?fbclid=IwAR1IHnAOzoFvG66oDMqiSd5N4lXgFhxZiI-mDO4kQhZsYYyuX961bs5Hodw
