The trustees of the Pharos Trust along with the management of Radio Mi Amigo are saddened to hear of the passing of Johnnie Walker who has been the Patron of The Trust for two decades.
Johnnie’s illustrious career intersected with the LV18 during his many Pirate BBC Essex broadcasts. Those broadcasts were a part of our own foundation and paved the way for the success of our own projects.
It was our privilege to receive a phone call for Johnnie on the 11th of August 2024 where he spoke live on Radio Mi Amigo with his former Radio Caroline and BBC colleague Keith ‘Cardboard Shoes’ Skues.
Our thoughts are with his wife, Tiggy and his family at this sad time. He will be missed by all aboard the LV18.
We broadcast the following obituary at 2200 & 2300 on New Years Eve.
Part way through Norman Barrington’s “Radio, Radio” show (Boxing Day) he played a montage of guitar rifts. A copy of that montage is available on the above link if you would like to hear it again.
The answers ….
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01 All Right Now – Free
02 Band On The Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
03 Black Magic Woman – Santana
04 Black Night – Deep Purple
05 Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel
06 Brown Sugar – Rolling Stones
07 Chicago – 25 Or 6 To 4!! [Alphanumeric trick]
08 Cocaine – J J Cale
09 Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley
10 Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful
11 Everybody’s Talkin’ – Nilsson
12 Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller
13 For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield
14 Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) – George Harrison
15 Heart of Gold – Neil Young
16 Hocus Pocus – Focus
17 I Can See For Miles – The Who
18 I Can’t Explain – The Who
19 I Can’t Tell You Why – The Eagles
20 I Saw The Light – Todd Rundgren
21 If You Could Read my Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
22 I’m A Man – Spencer Davis
23 In my Life – Beatles
24 It’s Only Rock ‘N Roll – Rolling Stones
25 Jet – Paul McCartney
26 Keep On Running – Spencer Davis
27 Lady D’Arbanville – Cat Stevens
28 Layla – Derek & The Dominos
29 Life In The Fast Lane -Eagles
30 Life’s Been Good – Joe Walsh
31 Light My Fire – José Feliciano
32 Long Train Running – Doobie Brothers
33 Looking For Clues – Robert Palmer
34 Man Of The World – Fleetwood Mac
35 Marrakesh Express – CSNY
36 Maybe Tomorrow Maybe Tonight – Earth & Fire
37 Need Your Love So Bad – Fleetwood Mac
38 Oh Well-Part 1 – Fleetwood Mac
39 On The Road Again – Canned Heat
40 Oye Como Va – Santana
41 Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone – The Temptations
42 Pick Up The Pieces – AWB
43 Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan
44 Reeling In The Years Steely Dan
45 Rock ‘N’ Roll – Lou Reed Live
46 Sail On, Sailor – Beach Boys
47 Seagull – Incredible String Band
48 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
49 She’s Not There – Zombies
50 Si Tu Dois Partir – Fairport Conventiom
51 Sound and Vision – David Bowie
52 Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
53 Strange Brew – Cream
54 Suite Judy Blue Eyes – CSNY
55 Summer In The City – The Lovin’ Spoonful
56 Sunny Afternoon – Kinks
57 Take a Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed
58 Teach Your Children – CSNY
59 Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield
60 Ventura Highway – America
61 Whiskey In The Jar – Thin Lizzy
62 Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin
63 Woman From Tokyo – Deep Purple
64 Woodstock – Matthews’ Southern Comfort;
65 You Really Got Me – Kinks
66 You Wear It Well – Rod Stewart
67 Yours Is No Disgrace – Yes
Another year ends – have you read our review of 2024 on Radio Mi Amigo?
We’ll be on the ship and in the studio at Midnight when the quayside fireworks and our lantern light up the Harwich Harbour sky. Maybe the ship’s bell will be rung as well? Yep, that is the ship’s bell!
We have music for you:
1800 US Artists Playlist
2000 Fluff On The Radio – with John Cavanagh. First broadcast on Radio Mi Amigo in 2016. John takes on the persona of Fluff Freeman for two hours.
2200 Steve Jenner takes you through to midnight.
0000 Duke Anthony’s New Year Party
0200 12″ Singles Playlist
0300 Fluff On The Radio (rpt)
0500 Mi Amigo Rock Playlist
0700 Radio Mi Amigo Daytime
Retreating back into 2023 briefly: We had been able to refit our studio in mid to late 2023 and this persuaded the team that a 24/7 online radio station was viable. That launched with a live event at Christmas 2023.
Just two months later an arson attack on the LV18 caused havoc and our fledgling station was off the air. We were then faced with writing off the entire studio equipment having only just managed to configure it how we wanted it.
Almost two weeks later we established a temporary studio off the ship and put Radio Mi Amigo back on the air.
Somehow we managed to clean the ship so that a planned Radio Caroline 60th Anniversary event at Easter went ahead.
The studio equipment that had been running from a temporary location was rebuilt on the ship just a day before the studio was broadcasting live shows.
We were joined in the studio by Roger ‘Twiggy’ Day (top, left) and Keith Skues, both veterans of Radio Caroline in the 1960s
Steve Scruton did a live BBC Essex broadcast from the LV18 on Easter Saturday.
A special live event was held on 23rd June, hosted in the Mi Amigo studio by Garry Lee. This was the first time anyone had openly discussed the arson attack on our station.
We reconvened in the studio for our August live event. This was held the weekend before the 14/08 anniversary, and ran 9th to the 11th.
On the 11th, however, Keith Skues received a call from Johnny Walker during his Sunday afternoon show. That call has been recorded and is available on this site.
There were a number of special radio shows during the late summer and autumn, including an August 14th special and a themed Halloween night which included a show from Stephen ‘Foz’ Foster.
One of the biggest events of the year was the Radio London 60th Anniversary in December. This took several months of planning in order to secure all the relevant permissions.
Radio Mi Amigo was one year old at Christmas 2024 but remains focussed on providing the best music content of the 60s and 70s whilst remembering the important role that the pirates played in UK media.Station personnel at December 2024:
Station Manager – Tony O’Neil
Programme Director – Heather O’Neil
Studio Engineer – Shiraz Turvey
Email studio@lv18radio.uk
Many thanks to all the presenters and the support team who made this event a success.
The Pharos Trust also wishes to thank Ray Anderson (radiofab.com) and Chris & Mary Payne (radiolondon.co.uk) for their kind assistance and support – without whom this radio event wouldn’t have been possible.
And, many many thanks to everyone who contacted the station during the weekend – we have never had so many emails or messages!
0700 Paul Ross
0800 Neon Nancy
0900 Gordon Bathgate
1000 Chris Morgan
1100 Jeff Martin
1200 Pete Nightingale
1300 Paul Windsor
1400 Gordon Bathgate
1500 Kevin Dinnigan – Australian Sounds of 70s
1600 Mi Amigo Dutch Playlist
1700 Olly Kinvig
1900 Paul Windsor – When Tamla Motown Came To The UK
2000 Mi Amigo Christmas Playlist
2100 Kevin Dinnigan – UK Number 1s of the 1970s
2200 Mi Amigo Rock Playlist
Christmas Day
0000 Mi Amigo Christmas overnight
0700 Chris Cooper
0800 Olly Kinvig
1000 Jeff Martin
1200 Paul Windsor
1300 Rick Marks
1400 Kevin Dinnigan – Burt Bacharach
1500 Jeff Martin’s Old Fashioned Christmas
1600 Radio East Boys
1700 Kevin Matthews
1800 Chris Morgan
1900 Robin Dee Offshore Special
2100 Mi Amigo Dutch Playlist
2200 Chris B & Friends
Boxing Day
0700 Mi Amigo Rock Playlist
0900 Norman Barrington – Radio, Radio, A Personal Perspective
1200 Mi Amigo Rock Playlist
1400 Paul Windsor – When Tamla Motwon Came to the UK
1500 Mi Amigo 12″ Playlist
1600 Mi Amigo Dutch Playlist
1700 Mi Amigo US artists Playlist
1900 Chris B At Christmas
2100 Norman Barrington – Radio, Radio, A Personal Perspective
December 27th
0000 Rick Marks
0100 Reverend Rabbit
0300 Robin Dee
0400 Chris Cooper
0500 Paul Windsor
0600 Garry Lee
Our usual weekend schedule takes over!Please note that the above Christmas schedule may need to change at short notice.
1200 Duke Anthony
1400 Olly Kinvig
1600 Chris Cooper
1800 Steve Jenner’s Big L Fab Forty Top 3 Hits
2000 Rick Marks
2200 Diamond Dave Kent
Midnight – Radio Mi Amigo overnight
Saturday 21st December
0700 Olly Kinvig
1000 Steve Jenner’s Big L Fab Forty Top 3 Hits
1200 Tim Wardley Sound of the 60s
1400 ** Keith Skues **
1600 Chris Cooper
1800 Robin Dee’s Perfumed Garden
2000 Rick Marks
2200 Duke Anthony
Midnight Keith Skues 23 July 1967 “The Radio London Story”
0200 Keith Skues last Radio London Show (25th July 1967)
0400 Chris Cooper
0500 Paul Windsor
0600 Chris Morgan
Sunday 22nd December
0700 Olly Kinvig
1000 Rick Marks
1200 Chris Cooper
1400 ** Keith Skues **
1600 Duke Anthony
1900 Paul Windsor – Radio London at Christmas
2200 Diamond Dave Kent
Midnight – Radio Mi Amigo overnight
Monday 23rd December
0600 Olly Kinvig
0900 Big L with Mandy Marton & Big Al
1000 Duke Anthony
1200 Ian Chambers December ’64
1300 Ray Anderson
1400 Big L with Mandy Marton & Big Al (rpt)
1500 Radio London Story with Keith Skues
1900 Ian Chambers December ’64 (rpt)
2100 Ray Anderson (rpt)
2200 Radio Mi Amigo
This is a live radio event. The above schedule may need to change at short notice. Last updated 1330 23rd December 2024.
The Ha’Penny Pier Christmas Tree will be lit this afternoon and we’ll be lighting our lantern to mark the event. Radio Mi Amigo is providing music alongside local groups, including Shanty singers performing carols! The visitor centre and LV18 will be open. 4pm onwards.We last lit our lantern on 6th June 2024 to mark the 80th anniversary of D Day.