I didn't let a few angry comments from two IP addresses through last week, I get it you don't like Mervyn, he is a bigger fraud than Ronan as you see it, although having seen the late grate Ronan's tactics of money extraction in person I think you haven't got a clue. Never the less keep those rose tinted glasses going and perish the thought, don't start living in the here and now.

So Radio Caroline (the licensed version which by it's very nature has nothing to do with the late Irishman, or even the real founders and owners) has just incinerated oops I mean celebrated it's sixtieth anniversary.  For me the most poignant words to describe it all come from Ian Anderson & I quote: Several times a day at SIBC I phone various local agencies as news sources and sometimes they ask what is happening elsewhere locally. This morning a contact in the maritime sector, who is in his 30s, asked me if there was anything else of interest and I said, oh, Radio Caroline is 60. He replied what is Radio Caroline? I said a radio station that was on several ships over the years and he replied that he had never heard of radio stations on ships. And to think that 6 people from Shetland/who lived in Shetland/are buried in Shetland served on board the Mi Amigo and at least 11 had direct connections with offshore radio. Well we made our mark!

Meanwhile back to 2024 where the sleepwalk into your grand children's dystopian future continues. Better keep looking backwards folks, after all offshore radio changed the world!

As the generation that celebrated the arrival of offshore radio to parts of the UK slowly but steadily dwindle in number, we can look forward to the 60th anniversary being celebrated by Anoraks and possibly even the mainstream media if it's a slow news day.

Perhaps this will be the last hurrah for the aging, grumbling and never satisfied anoraks who sleepily continue to hope for the glory days to return (they did some years ago) or at least they can hold some sort of rose tinted memory festival as the sun sets forever over offshore radio.

Whatever, as time goes by it all becomes less and less relevant as does offshore radio and the presenters of that era. If that period of time deserves anything regarding the offshore stations, then it's an accurate and credible historical record of what really happened and why and when.

The last thing needed is another home made, print on demand, non researched rehash of a fictional story told over and over (Goebbels style), that represents little fact and a whole load of sentimental clap trap.

Maybe we will get the real facts, or some of them, so those interested in real history can feel comfortable that future generations can get the whole sixties offshore radio chapter in context, including why the government of that time went against massive public opinion and took action to stop them.

It's taken me a long long time to finally understand the whys and why not's and although I still disagree with the governments action, at least I have the context. So lets see what unfolds and whether the truth will out! Or do you wish to remain on your own personal fantasy island. Final clue: It wasn't the young Irishman who made it all happen.