Radio Seagull is back!
Today is the 36th anniversary of the closure of most of the UK offshore radio stations. There have been rumours over the past few weeks of a possible new radio station to mark the occasion, and some radio anoraks have been getting more than a little excited over test tones that have been heard on 531 kHz. But so far today, nothing new has appeared.
However, a familiar offshore radio station is about to reappear in a new guise as an Internet radio station. Radio Seagull says it will start regular programmes on 16 August. This is how the station describes itself:
"Radio Seagull brings you the music you don't hear on other radio stations, neither 'on air', nor on the Internet. We play the best rock, the coolest album tracks and the finest alternative music.
"We broadcast from a small harbour-town in the northern part of the Netherlands where the sound of the sea and of seagulls is heard everyday. We also feel a strong relationship to the "Radio Seagull" broadcast from the MV Mi-Amigo in 1973 and 1974. During those days, the ship that also housed the radio station Radio Mi-amigo, was anchored 4 miles off the Dutch coast. Radio Seagull's format consisted of Album Tracks and Alternative music, the same format we broadcast nowadays.
- During daytime we play non-stop 'rock' music from artists like Tom Petty, Alanis Morisette, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker and The Smiths. But also from bands like Black Sabbath, Rare Earth, Grateful Dead, The Doors, The Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground etc.
- Between 07.00 and 16.00 CET, every hour will start with a track of 'the CD of the week'.
- In the evening we change to a more specific style, depending of the day of the week: blues, symphorock, album tracks, new releases etc.
"Like our colleagues in the 70's, we also promote the message of 'Love and Understanding', or 'Loving Awareness'!. You'll hear our message throughout our programmes!"
A look at the presenter lineup shows that Stevie Gordon and Harry Kuipers of the Dutch Radio Caroline are involved. If the programmes are half as professional as their Web site, I think they stand a very good chance of establishing themselves and filling a niche, just as the original Radio Seagull did.
http://www.radioseagull.nl/
7:22:09 PM 
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