John Peel on Pirate Cat Radio in California

[ken_garner]

shall we organise a shift / rota system so someone is online listening live and hijacking at any time, just in case? I am at home marking so could try and do a couple of hours...

ken

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, John Bravin <john.bravin@...> wrote:
>
> I am following up on this old story I posted in January 2009.
> 
> Having got in touch with Monkey (I'm not making this up), and he has 
> just emailed me to say Pirate Cat Radio will be playing some of the box 
> of reel-to-reel tapes of old BBC broadcasts by John Peel this Thursday.
> 
> No more details, just a one-line enigmatic reply.
> 
> The radio station is on www.piratecatradio.com and there is a DJ 
> Schedule and a playlist (via the blogspot.playlist.feeds) but I'm none 
> the wiser.
> 
> Will try to follow up with more info, and will be well annoyed if I've 
> been missing regular broadcasts of new (old) material.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> John Bravin wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody know what these reel-reel John Peel tapes might be? Are
> > they new or already ripped?
> >
> > "The station broadcasts 24 hours, although the cafe closes at 10 p.m.
> > (unless business is slow, and then Monkey closes early rather than spend
> > money on electricity). After cafe hours, he presents vintage radio
> > dramas and plans to air a box of reel-to-reel tapes of old BBC
> > broadcasts by disc jockey John Peel that he recently bought on eBay."
> >
> > See full details on
> >
> > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/04/DDOF14Q2EC.DTL 
> > <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/04/DDOF14Q2EC.DTL>
> >
> > John
> >
> >
>