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De nadagen van Radio Caroline, het was "uurtjes vullen".... Nigel Harris die in die tijd nog betrokken was bij Caroline had de DJ ploeg eind 1990 niet zo hoog. In zijn boek "Ships in troubled water" omschrijft hij het als volgt: "Caroline had a broadcastingteam, the majority of whom had never been in a radio studio before, whose propriety on the air was poor, to say the least". (pagina 209)

Toch wil ik opmerken dat ik Rico best wel leuk vond, maar voor de meeste was het plaatje op/plaatje af "Caroline on..XXnine" en meer van die one-liners opmerkingen.

En toch mis ik het.... radio vanaf zee... Je weet wel, als het stormde, je radio op Caroline. De fameuze Gates CB500 draaitafels met een aan/uit schakelaar waar een kwikdruppel in een glazen buisje zat. Als het schip dan flink schommelde schakelden die draaitafels zichzelf uit omdat de kwikdruppel dan het contact verbrak. Vooral in Januari/Februari 1990 met die zware stormen was het moeilijk om live programma's te maken. Vaak daarna dezelfde stormtape...

Sweet memories..... :)

Groet

Henk Kruize

11 hours ago, Henk-Anna Loog said:

De nadagen van Radio Caroline, het was "uurtjes vullen".... Nigel Harris die in die tijd nog betrokken was bij Caroline had de DJ ploeg eind 1990 niet zo hoog. In zijn boek "Ships in troubled water" omschrijft hij het als volgt: "Caroline had a broadcastingteam, the majority of whom had never been in a radio studio before, whose propriety on the air was poor, to say the least". (pagina 209)

Toch wil ik opmerken dat ik Rico best wel leuk vond, maar voor de meeste was het plaatje op/plaatje af "Caroline on..XXnine" en meer van die one-liners opmerkingen.

You'd have to ask Nigel Harris what he meant by "propriety", but I would expect he was talking about the standards of good taste. As I have listened to the recordings, I notice there were indeed quite a few off-colour jokes told and even once or twice a criticism of the Viewpoint programmes (i.e. their main paying advertiser).

Also sometimes the DJs said things that clearly made absolutely no sense at all. There was a competition promo (voiced by Rico, no less) played regularly where one of the prizes announced was "an LP from the Opportunity Knocks winner Brenda Russell".

Except it was Brenda Cochrane who won Opportunity Knocks in 1989. (Brenda Russell is the American famous for "Piano in the Dark" in 1988 and has been a singer since the 1960s).

So you might say there were some "quality control" issues (probably because there was no programme controller after Nigel left), but I'm not sure what is meant by the statement that most DJs "had never been in a radio studio before", though?

Rico, Chris Frisco, Jerry Wright, Andy Bradgate, Nick Jackson and Ricky Jones are all excellent DJs.

Jerry Wright started on Caroline in 1986, Andy Bradgate: Caroline from 1988 and Nick Jackson: Caroline from January 1989.

Rico had previously been a DJ on the Voice of Peace and Ricky Jones had a previous career at Radio Invicta (the legal station for Kent)!

Not sure about Chris Frisco's background before Caroline or where he is now. Possibly he had never been in a radio studio before, but he was a very good DJ indeed.

Johnny Blackburn wasn't too bad (had previously done hospital radio), but too many of his links relied on "dad jokes" that he clearly took from a Tony Blackburn joke book... he needed to give that up!

Chris Adams was also not so bad, although he was always having trouble with the studio equipment (records at wrong speeds, usually). He was also on the Voice of Peace previously.

Victor Hartman always seemed a little less "polished", sometimes criticised on-air much of what he was playing and apparently prone to using obscenities on air (one of the recordings features him shouting a profane insult, possibly picked up by the stylus!). He had been an engineer for the Voice of Peace in the late 1970s and a DJ on short-wave pirate radio stations around the same time. Which just proves that how long someone has had experience in a radio studio doesn't really mean all that much.

Very few were of the style you mention ("Caroline 558" and just the name of the songs/artists)... Louise Roberts? She was Nick Jackson's girlfriend... mainly serving as the Ross cook, but she did some shows in the middle of the night. Paul West? He wasn't on air very long and almost nothing is known about him. Tony Kirk? Rarely heard in 1990 except for the odd storm tape.

Maybe you could elaborate? Because it's not true that only Rico was the only good DJ at the time (although he was obviously one of the best).

Honestly, I think Radio Caroline sounded excellent in the spring of 1990... almost as good as before the mast collapse.

Het was de mining van NIgel Harris

6 uur geleden zei Lightkeeper:

Maybe you could elaborate?

Zeker, het was dan ook de mening van Nigel Harris en niet die van mij, ik heb er ook bijgeschreven dat ik Rico een van de betere (in 1990) vond. De andere DJ's waren dan ook niet echt slecht, verre van dat, ik luisterde er graag naar, zo hoorde ik Ricky Jones ook graag in 1990.

Maar, en dat is zeker, ze hadden niet de kwaliteiten van b.v. Peter Philips, Kevin Turner, Johnny Lewis, Simon Barrett etc. Ook de muziekkeuze was een stuk minder, in 1989 was de hele platencollectie van Caroline in beslag genomen en de platencollectie die later, in 1989 en 1990 aan boord was, miste dan ook heel veel van de Classics die in de periode Aug.83-Aug.89 te horen waren.

Al met al was het toch heel leuk om naar te luisteren, zeker als je kijkt met wat voor problemen Caroline te maken had in 1990.

Ik hoop, Lightkeeper (heb je ook een echte naam?) dat ik je vraag hiermee beantwoord heb.

Fijne dag

Henk Kruize

Tja, en als we het dan toch over Caroline 1990 hebben dan deel ik een opname met Andy Bradgate, die heeft een leuke DJ stem en mixt leuk hits met oldies. Uit mijn digitaal CD-R mp3 archief, afkomstig van "offshoreradio.org" in 2004.

Radio Caroline - 18-03-1990 - 1535-1635 - Andy Bradgate

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