It was a time of magic. When, for a single glorious decade, imagination triumphed over commercial reality. Pirate radio station DJs compiled playlists based purely on their love for the music; broadcast studios were in old caravans; stars adapted exotic-sounding names to woo listeners; outside broadcast units were invariably the back seats of old Ford Cortinas or Opel Asconas and every DJ lived in mortal terror that the Gardai might arrive to shut their station down or, worse still, confiscate their precious private record collections.
This is the story of pirate radio in Cork, as told by the main players involved. Amongst the many familiar voices are John Creedon, Neil Prendeville, Trevor Welch, Mark Cagney, Paul Byrne, Derry O’Callaghan to this book admitted they had never before, or since, experienced the sheer joy of working in the Cork pirate stations of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
