Chris Poole , Chelmsford
Having listened avidly in the 60's, I have again relived my teens for the second time in the zero's. It has been great to hear all my old favorite DJ's again and I have just got home after being in Harwich 13th, to listen to JW's 9-12 slot, whom I have listened to since the Pirate days. Thanks to everyone for a fantastic 6 days of wonderful memories, music and fun. You guys are the best. Please do it again.
Dave Fox
So good to hear Johnny Walker back on the 9 to 12 slot on AM...Thanks to everyone involved. LA from Dave Fox @ Radio Seagull in Holland.
Kevin Willson
Thank you to all my Hero's, J.Walker,E Rosko,R.Day and K Skues.Please don't let this be the last time..Also would like to thank everyone involved, who have made it all possible.
Terry Simmonds
Fantastic effort over the past week. Everyone I have spoken to loved the music and you brought back happy memories of an ill-spent youth.Let's have a permanent Pirate station on LV18.
David Cheeseman
Wonderful, Swingin'.I like the atmosphere, and wish it could be done every year.I missed the 60's and only caught the 70's to 80's but have lots of commercially available recordings.Pity JW did not do my request!!
Merf Jones, West Bergholt
This has been great fun for us the listeners and obviously for all the presenters too. Memories have come flooding back and I'd like to see similar programming scheduled, at the very least , on an annual basis. How about it BBC Essex?
Bob Tavener
this is the best iv'e heard since you were last on the air a couple of years ago,wish it could go on for ever,it takes me back to my teens
Dave in Kelvedon Essex
Make this style of radio permenant as a web station for the whole world to hear how it should be done!
Richard Wilson-Smith from Southampton
Its been great listening to Pirate Radio Essex I always wanted to be a Radio Presenter after listening to Radio Caroline when I was about 16 but I got as far as Hospital Radio I love Radio it has always been my great love keep up the good work Johhnie and all the rest of the gang.
m.lester
thank you boyfor all you have done for a siily bugger like me!!
nigel h
johnnie walker & cobrilliant radio with theCliff Richard singalongHave had lots of good laughstonight with you all....I guess there must be quite a few records that went overboard apart from Ester & Abi....its going to hard after tomorrow following 6 days of excellent programmes.Nigel H
Paul English, Dublin, Ireland.
I thought it was all in my rose-tinted memory but this weekend has reminded me of what we all lost. What great fun, what great music. Thanks for it all, it has been truely wonderful.
Ray Tyler
wonderful to hear all of you guys the music is by far the best I have listened to for ages it is a musical fiesta one that has had me listening on my p/c every spare momement I can muster. I wish you could keep this going for you will surely be missed from tomorrow thanks for the memories
colin wilkins
Commercial Radio hasn't learnt a thing in the last 40 years, Hope one of the stations has been listening to Pirate BBC Essex, a master class in how radio should be! Just brilliant This is how radio should be.great music, fun to listen to,and not the same songs we have all heard a thousand times before.Pity it hasto close down, it should up anchor and stay on air.Why should we have to wait another 3 years for this to happen.Bosses take note.
Graham
Thanks to everyone for bringing the true spirit of radio alive again. Please don't let it be the last time.
Bronwyn Reeves, West Malling
If this weekend has achieved nothing else, (and what a wonderful weekend it has been), it has certainly showed how woefully under-used Johnnie Walker has been since 'Drive Time' became'Drivel Time'. Johnnie, you are a National Treasure and it's about time that knighthood was made official!
Phil Read
to good to lose,there must be a way of getting something going in the future.Thanks to you all
Mike Marwick
Absolutely brilliant - should be 365 days a year! Just like the old days..........
Rick Taylor - Again! (Manchester UK)
This CANNOT end! This week I won £10 on the lottery - I was hoping for the jackpot so I could buy the LV18 and make sure this never ends - EVER. Let's make a deal - if we don't hear "All you need is Love" as the last piece, then we know it's not all over. How's that?
Darran Pettican
Great to hear the songs of the sixties in this style of broadcasting, its a pity its only on the aniversaries!Lets have it 24/7 - 365. Pirates - Keep it up and please keep going!!
Terry Ten Records Folkestone
This is what radio should be about, fun, good music, all round entertainment,Johnny Walker rules go Johhny go
Dallas Willcox
First class broadcasting! Congratulations, and many thanks, to all involved. Within these messages, and those sent to the LV18, many listeners from all over the world have expressed the need for this NOT to be the last time. It should be repeated at least annually, in my opinion, but a local radio station cannot be expected to cover the cost. I, therefore, repeat my plea of 2004: tell 'the powers that be' what you think - the name of the Director General of BBC is Mark Thompson. Let people power win with this one!
Walter Deutschle (Fellbach, Germany)
Very good music, fine stories and memories to a long time ago I listening to the pirate Stations in the Northsea.Thank's for this nice ProgrammeGood luck for the next 40 Years
sophie twyford
my dad is so right this type of radio isthe BEST,BBC TAKE NOTE if you dont someone else will......
Gerald of Colchester
As a young lad I listened to Radio Caroline in Southend, as I was in the services during this time I travelled to North Wales and on my little pocket radio I lisened to Caroline North, do you know I only wanted to listen to the music then, but what you all have done in the last 5 days is return some memories to me just through the music you have played.It has been a privalage and a pleasure listening to all of you. Thank you all so much in what you have done for radio today and in the sixties.GOOD LUCK TO THE PIRATES OF ESSEX AND THEIR FRIENDS.Please Come Back.
DJ Dave
Enjoying JW soul classics.Well done to all the Radio Essex staff for putting on a wonderful event...please make it again next year.This is how radio should be.....thank you to all the jocks as well........
Bob Reynolds
Wonderful programmes. Particular thanks to Roger Day, John Kerr, Norman St John, Gord Cruze, Mark Wesley, Mike Aherne and Ian Damon. Rosko was eloquent.Pete Drummond, in the last hour of Radio London, said: 'Freedom of speech and music has not been denied to the disc jockey or the listener. I doubt you will ever see its like again.'And we haven't. But this is a magnificent recreation of the great days, particularly of Caroline. I hope it will happen again before too long. Thank you to the BBC Essex people for a joyful six days. Free radio lives
Darren Vidler
These Broadcasts have beenFantastic.Best Radio in aLong Time. I hope thisisn't the last TimeDarren little HadhamHertfordshire
Allan Horne
Loved it in the sixties - great now. Can't wait another 40 years. Shows how bad current radio is !!!
Terry Ten Records Folkestone
This is what radio should be about, fun, good music, all round entertainment,Johnny Walker rules go Johhny go
colin in bradford
are you going to play "dales diary" again? Great show and book Johnnie. Was listening to you 40 years ago. thank you!
Euan Walker
Back to the 60's with Johnnie Walker, I live in Scotland could only pick up Caroline North in the 60's so never got too hear you then, can now thru Internet. Remember pirates with great fondness, wish these days were back (sigh) Good luck and best wishes from Bonnie Scotland. Ring the Caroline bell one more time Johnnie!
Alan Cook .Hants
To the Managing Director, please do this again; and soon. Its been Radio at its best. There is not another Radio Station in the UK that can compete!Another 40 years will be too late, we wont be here. And nor will the greatest DJs of all time be here; from the Offshore Era..So please!
albrecht de Groeve
wunderful to hear again the sounds of the sixties on 196 m, 411 m and 392 m. here in Belgium on the Belgian coast Oostende good reception on AM and on internet
Dave Field (Brighton)
Fantastic, real radio as it should be. Compared to the music stations we now have, Pirate Radio Essex is in a different class.....PREMIERSHIP. Please come back next year & the year after etc.
Dave from Hull
Brilliant. Time to bring out my old tape recorder and listen to the recordings from the pirate days. Would love to know what the listening figures are. Welldone!
Lynda from Hadleigh
Great start to the show Johnnie, I loved Rule Britannia, All my friends have now become hooked on Pirate radio.Keep on rocking ! !
Brian Samuels
Johnnie. What a start to a show Bring back the Pirates!!!Brilliant
Helen May, Cheshire
This last week has been fantastic, almost like listening to the soundtrack of my teenage years! Thanks and well done to everyone for making it happen!
Mike Walmsley
Only one word for it! "Excellent!"Must be the best radio for a long long time! Crystal clear on-line but very authentic on the car radio! I live in West Sussex and daytime signal very good!Well done BBC Essex! Makes a mockery of that new "Gold" station! ( Classic Gold / Capital Gold merger ). Be good if this could be done full time or at least annually! Must be a market for it!
Paul Smith - Welwyn Garden City
Me again!For some reason (maybe I was out of the country) I missed 2004.This is the best radio I've heard for 40 years FantasticHow am I going to listen tomorrow when I'm back at work (sob)Have a great day. As much of this 6 day extravaganza MUST be made available for posterity.You've all recreated history and I love you all (no alcohol either)
Tezza24uk
Only just remember listening to the Pirates, however do remember the last days. Glad I have been able to listen online while at work. Only dissapointment is not being able to listen to and from work. It's good to hear "raw" radio, who needs expensive studios!
Mike Lamb
Dug out the army surplus radio I used to tune in to Caroline in the 60s (its all I could afford back then) and Bingo, it still works! Sunday afternoon and you referred to radio 390. I looked the dial and guess what, it read exactly 390 metres! I wonder if you Knew that. What about the original Caroline closedown theme, 'round Midnight By Jimmy McGriff, after Carl Conway? PLEASE play it and I'll add the whistles!! BIG thanks, only the BBC could do it!!
John - from Luton, Bedfordshire
Hi, having read the BBC Essex Message Board, I can find no reference to the man that made Radio London so great all those years ago, and yet was seemingly shunned by the Industry the moment the pirates went Off-Air in August 1967 - namely the late great Tony Windsor (T.W. as he was known on London). Also, there has been very little mention of this genius of a DJ on the current round of broadcasting since Thursday 09-08-2007. Surely his name deserves something better for the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the passing of Pirate Radio as we all knew it? So, lets have some respect and a tribute for that wonderful DJ to whom so many in the industry owe an indebitness and so many listeners still have good memories. It would be good if somebody on Pirate BBC Essex could give him a serious mention before close-down at 15:00 on Tuesday 14-08-2007.Many Thanks,John.
John Holding
I was a fan in 1964/1967 of the pirates. Pirate BBC Essex format is FAB from Roger Day to Johnnie Walker not forgetting Steve Scruton. All the jocks have been great! Please BBC local radio keep your medium wave frequencies all over the UK for a national station like this and keep the FM for what they are doing now - everybody wins!
Barry Howard
Great DJs, great music and you've captured all the fun - even better than I remembered. Not enough jingles though! This is how radio was meant to be. Well done to the Radio Essex team for having the vision and tenacity to make it happen. I just got 40 years younger!
Barry coombes
I've been listening for over 25 hours and not heard 1 Cliff richard record, even though Steve Scrutton read out a request for one. Please dont forget Cliff many thanks Barry
pauline cadwllader
this is real radio and not clone fm thanks shame this time tomorrow it will be no more come back soon
John
Originaly listing to pirate radio at school and on holiday. it then crackeld,fuzed and faded. Now I am listing via the internet. Technology changes but it is still the Presenters that made it so special. Fantastic to hear so many friends from the past and Happy memories of those who are long with us.
peter twyford
just so FANTASTIC the nearest we will ever get towhat we had in the SWINGING SIXTIES.V.V.V.V.V. well done essex, so so sad it cannot be an annual or even better every day thing.but then we live in hope
Eunice Moore
HAVING A GREAT TIME LISTENING LETS HAVE SOME MORE TIMES LIKE THIS ITS FANTASTIC
Willy Walker - Radio London 66/67
Keefers!Dedicating your show to Tommy Vance - Now That's a Class Act!I'm having as much fun listening to ya as you are doing it...Nice to hear Freddy Ryder has his ears on.Catch you back this side of the pond.Cheers WW
Pete S
BULOVA!!Wanted one since I first heard the time jingle back in the 60s. Finally got one when I won a bit of money in Vegas a couple of years ago and went shopping in one of the Malls. It is my pride and joy.listening to you online in sleepy shropshire. Bringing back almost too many memories to handle.Best wishesPete
Paul, from Norwich
Brings back many happy memories from the 60's.Great music, great DJ's from the days when the music was more important than the chat.Congratulations and well done to all concerned.many Thanks.Paul
Dale R. Patterson
Enjoying Keefer here in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. Takes me back to the days when he was on CKFH Toronto.
Gavin St Albans England
Take a pile of records, a load of memories and a radio ship.The result,a unique sound that produces unrivalled listener loyalty. Bundle this up and take it to the Dragon's Den. Then it won't be the last time !
Lynda Smith
I was 14 when the pirates were sunk, and they had been a big part of my life. I would spend all day channel hopping betweeen the different pirates, but predominantly 270, Caroline and London. When radio 1 appeared I loved it despite its definite problems and establishment controls. I had got my music back and that was all that mattered. At that time I wasn't aware of the differences. But listening to you lot has brought back the total freedoms and joy that pirate radio brought me. The present system just doesn't compare. And this is not just about looking back on a younger me with longing for that time. You have captured the total joie de vivre of the pirates, when radio used to be FUN. You are clearly having a whale of a party. Please do not this be the last time. Allow a younger generation to experience all this too.
Stuart Aldridge
A really great idea, the music is fab but to hear the old DJ's once again brings all the memories back to me.Is there any chance of putting Tuesdays programmes on listen again, as us old ones have to work during the day 9 to 5 etc and would love to hear the last 3 hours of LV18.
PETER CHAMBERLAIN
CANNOT BELIEVE YOU WILL NOT BE AROUND ON WEDNESDAY HOW WILL WE SURVIVE HAS BEEN BRILLIANT WILL BE WITH YOU TILL THE END
Val Durston
What a great time for BBC ESSEX I hope you will do it again very soon. We spent the weekend at Walton-on-the-Naze and had wall to wall Pirate Radio
Janet Kirby
Wonderful to hear the music and DJ's. Brought back lots of memories. Well done BBC Essex.
Tom Teuber
I'm listening online in Madison, Wisconsin in the US.....I used to get tapes of the pirate radios from pen pals in the UK and return the favor with tapes of US Radio. I'm originally from Chicago, so it was particularly great to hear Jerry Butler!Thanks for bringing back great memories!
dave from lawford
a big thankyou to every one involved with PRE...lots of memories ... flashing lights from holland on sea, great programs to finally listening to the shows dispite government jamming...
Laury & Michael Barrow(Radwinter)
This is the best of the best!!! We have soooooooo enjoyed the last few days(as we did, last time) Please don't let this be the last time.........Better than any tonic!!!!!So amazing to hear all the "oldies" (they shape up pretty well to whatever is going on now)!!We have listened to BBC. Essex since its inception, how lovely to wake up to "The Pirates" rather than the "purile duo" that we are subjected to at the moment!!!!!!Please, please, don't let this be the last time??!!!!! (well done Steve, we know this was your "Baby")!!!Much love Laury & Michael xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
pamela evans
Brilliant. So many good memories. I'm 16 again too. And the d.j,s still sound like they're all in their early twenties. I'm listening online in South Wales. Pam.
Nick at Wisbech
Great to hear some real radio again. Brings back so many memmories of my teenage years.You must find a way to make it happen 24/7 - good luck for the future
sam mayes
i got married,first time, on the day radio caroline started, easter 1964. great listening to all the d,j,s and super music. please try to bring pirate bbc back again some time. regards sam
Brian Young
I agree with Phil Waters I feel 16 again this is FUN radio which sadley is missing today. A big pat on the back to BBC. Radio Essex for using great insight and increasing listerner figures, you deserve it
Tim Mills
Hi All - listening via t'internet.from sunny Scunthorpe. Of course all this was before my time (shut it Tom Edwards) but sounding great. Enjoy - hope the memories are as good for you guys as they are for us. Now - where's my tandy mini transistor radio? - Anyone got a 9V Battery? Gonna hide under my sheets and listen in :)
Ken from Barking
What great music this is the stuff us over 50,s want to here.Before Pirates it was trannie under the pillows listening to one min.of top twenty on Luxemburg turning radio to keep signal.WELL DONE ALL THE JOCKS.
Rob Hofland
Great listening to all the offshore heroes of the sixties. Looking forward to the next 24 hours, but it will be sad when it's over tomorrow. Hope Pirate BBC Essex will return in the near future. All the Best from Rob in Holland
Martin Rosen
The last few days have really been great. I really cannot add more to what has already been said. It is a memory that I will not forget in a hurry.
George and Lucy Edmonston
A friend in the UK e-mailed us last Saturday with the history of pirate radio, plus a link to the broadcasts, and we've been listening ever since. Coming in loud and clear in Newberg, Oregon, USA. Thanks everyone. G&L
Larry
I have just recovered from Rosko show yesterday WOW!!!Ace-Tastin' Motorvatin' Good Buzzing, Smooth Talkin', Fast Walkin' Ever Givin', Cool Fizzin'..
Les Pritchett
Fantastic!!!! This is the best radio i've heard since the pirates in the 1960's - Even better than the 2004 outing and that was great.Well done BBC, this few days of entertainment alone is worth the licence fee.
Steve Edge, Newtown, Powys
This is soooo good. I've been listening on and off in between my own airshifts. Shame it's not a permanent fixture. Good luck to all on board, I'm extremely jealous!
Anne Berry, Clacton
STEVE SCRUTON FOR PRIME MINISTER!!Thanks to Steve and the other presenters for a great few days. Just like the old days, but with the addition of Steve and Ray from BBC Essex. Now the world knows how lucky listeners in Essex are to be able to such great friendly guys. Hope they don't get headhunted. Well done to everyone, especially Steve, whose idea this music extravanga was.xxxxxxxxxxx to you all
Vaughan Griggs
Pirate Radio Essex is great. This is how radio should be; knowledgable, likeable presenters, lots of music, no interruptions from news readers, traffic reporters or sports presenters who think they are personalities. Please do it again. How about making it an annual event? Thanks to everyone who has made it possible.
Mike G
Sky News now - go go go....Johnnie just pull that anchor up at 3 tomorrow, remember 4 miles out...
TONY CANT
This is fantastic. just so wonderful. I am so gobbsmacked. It was 40 years ago and I was an 11 year old listening to freedom on the radio. Now 40 yrs later I am again....Johnnie, my hero.. Emperior Rosko.. Keith Skues.. Graham Webb...Mike Ahern.. Keith Hampshire....its been so great to hear the fun in radio again. Where is DLT???? Thanks BBC thanks DJs Thanks everyone my licence fee well spent ......Cheers Tony Cant Birmingham ...
Patrick Chapman
As everyone says, this takes us all back - even the swell making the records jump! You all seem to be enjoying a special reunion - as are we, your listeners reliving our early 'teens in the '60s. Oh to be young again!
John Warrington
Brilliant! A lovely treat for my ears. So many memories of REAL radio come flooding back. All the DJ's sound exactly the same as they did back in the sixties. Please don't let this end! Why not do it every year throughout August and fund the whole thing with advertising, perhaps the BBC would make an exception for this worthy cause.THANK YOU.
John From Norfolk
What fantastic Radio. This is what we want - offshore radio playing music from the pirate days and DJ's with personalities again. I wish so much that you were here to stay. My radio has been glued to me even when I was shopping over the weekend.Thank you all so much.
zoran from zagreb, croatia
what? 40 years went just like that? we are young again, and everything is the same as before... except some 30 kilos and some grey in the beard...
Grannie Jean
Love it! My family thought I had flipped when I danced around singing along. I feel like a teenager again, and that was a very, very long time ago!!! Keep going, I hope.
Chris Gasper , Southend
Pirate BBC Essex is the best thing on radio since 2004 and the 60's. Thank you very much to all involved in organising it and all those who are taking part.I listen to Sunday's Journey that is great but only covers the hits and a few others. The Pirates are concentraiting on all the records of the era exposing many for the first time in many years. The instrumentalists are real and the vocalists can be heard (not always understood but the theme of the song is up front) that doesent happen nowdays. An annual Pirate week would be great even if it couldn't come from offshore.You have woken my taste buds for the best music of all time. Thank you very much.Chris
Hans Zaayer
Great songs! Brings back the memory of the old radio days. The signal is very clear in Utrecht, Holland. On my Sony AM transmitter.
Bob Harding
Special message for Graham "Spider" Webb.Sounding great back home here on the Sunshine Coast. Cheers
Phil Waters
How fantasic is Pirate Radio Essex. I feel 16 again. (no mean feat that) you have recreated the feel, and the sound, and it is so good to hear the voices again. Welcome back Cashman and Rosko. Please dont let this thing die. The audience figures must be huge.
Harald Hummel, Rüsselsheim, Germany
Thank you sooo much, you people from Radio Essex to make such a wonderful thing happen. Especially hearing Johnnie Walker again with his most famous kind of show and meeting all the other guys who I managed to listen to down here in the Frankfurt-area in Germany in the 60s.Will there be any chance to listen again?
Roy
brings back many memories of night time listening on fading MW. Dug out my old Tranny put some battries in it and took me right back.
David Gibson
I used to listen to Radio Caroline from about 76 the Lovin Awaremess days so missed the hayday but the fun and pure radio 'format' comes shining through. would be great if this could happen every but mybe being a one off is what makes it so special.
therese
great to hear the knee song by peter lee stirling on cash show would love to hear stirlings song sad lonely and blue! terry and george boughtthe single between them and it still travels back and forth to australia so many great memories of the pirates the real sound of the sixties
Paul Vos
I used to listen to Johnnie Walker each night on Caroline South all the way in Shannon Ireland (westcoast!) You wouldn't believe the excellent quality then without more than 3 fades a night.Now I'm much closer, living in the south of the Netherlands, but I can only listen on WWW.Please make this kind of radio 24/7, you'll compete with TV in no time.Regards to everyone involved.
Emma Cash
Hello there, just wanted to say it's been great! especialy listening to dad! But then I am bias. However you are all great.
Rick Taylor
Fabulous fresh (40 yrs on!) radio concept - I'm sure you realise you have a massive worldwide audience, which with marketing would grow even more. If the Beeb doesn't continue with this, we can be certain Commercial Radio will. Don't let the baddies in - Continue it! On the downside, Radio 2 have lost listeners - this week, I've only listened to Steve Wright!
Christine in Bannister Green Felsted
Fantastic, Great. It bought back so many good memories.It's given me a new lease of life. feel 19 aagain, until I look in the mirror that is. So I've stopped looking.Music is the best, please do it again.Thanks for the memoriesThanks to everyone involved, don't let it be the last time, keep it up.
Vince Neale
Although I haven't listened to every minute I haven't heard anybody address the oft asked question, Why could this be the last time? This begs the question what can we do to ensure it's not the last time? I, like most others of the 60s generation have been on cloud 9 for the past few days (much to the puzzlement of my American wife and children) but I am puzzled at the lack of any of the original jingles. Also I haven't heard Days of Pearly Spenser which I think was played every few hours during the last commemoration, just unlucky or was it not played? I'd also like to hear Soul Coaxing by Raymond Lefevre. Thanks to all for a great few days and I hope it is not the last time.
Willy Walker - Florida / Bermuda
Cardboard Shoes..having a blast listening to you on air..whats this about a sheep? as I finish a lamb chop!! Just like the old days on Galaxy.."Shags"promos,the jingles and now we await the "Duke of Wimbledon's"(Stewpot)turn at Mic tomorrow.Great music and ta for the name check!Catch you next UK visit.
Willy Walker - "Big L"
Cashman.... enjoying the show,the tunes of the 60's,the jingles and your stories of days on Big L...keep up the good work! Loud n clear in Florida
