{"id":10383,"date":"2024-12-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2024-12-30T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T19:48:37","slug":"closedown-of-capitol-radio-nitesky-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/closedown-of-capitol-radio-nitesky-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Closedown of Capitol Radio\/Nitesky 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1826\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10383-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2220-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2220-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2220-192.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2220-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10383-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2220-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI2220-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nitesky-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Closedown of Capitol Radio\/Nitesky 96\" class=\"wp-image-10388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nitesky-ad.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nitesky-ad-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/nitesky-ad-768x450.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ad for Capitol-Nitesky in the Sunday World in 1986 (Alan MacSiomoin Collection).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Capitol Radio was Dublin&#8217;s alternative music station, broadcasting for five-and-a-half years from mid-1983 until the end of 1988. It began by playing album tracks but focused more on alternative\/indie in its last two years on air, supporting the many new Irish bands on the growing Dublin music scene. In summer 1986, Capitol launched an evening service, Nitesky 96, which experimented with specialist shows and further promoted indie bands. It had a loyal following among listeners unserved by the &#8216;hot hits&#8217; format that was popular among the pirate stations and ran a weekly &#8216;Alternative Night&#8217; in the iconic McGonagle&#8217;s nightclub in South Anne Street, to where the station moved its premises in later years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording is of the final half-hour of Capitol\/Nitesky on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988 as it prepared to close down for good. On air is station manager Conor Brooks with Tony Lewis and Killian Forde in studio. There is a link-up to a closedown event at Side&#8217;s nightclub in Dame Street, from where DJs John Kiely and Matt Dempsey give updates via a scratchy phone line. Conor thanks listeners, advertisers and presenters for their support, singling out McGonagle&#8217;s which was so important to Capitol\/Nitesky in later years. He also underlines the relationship between the station and the emerging Irish indie scene, saying that one fed the other and distinguished Capitol\/Nitesky from mainstream radio stations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection and was made from 95.8 FM on 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1988 from 2333-0002. It is followed by the sound of the FM transmitter being switched off. A longer airchecked version of the final two hours on air is available below and includes other DJs Tony Gahan and Neil Hayes as well as a visit from Bryan Lambert of Class Radio, which had closed down a few hours earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AI2221-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Longer airchecked version of final 2 hours (Anoraks Ireland Collection).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Radio was Dublin&#8217;s alternative music station, broadcasting for five-and-a-half years from mid-1983 until the end of 1988. It began by playing album tracks but focused more on alternative\/indie in its last two years on air, supporting the many new Irish bands on the growing Dublin music scene. In summer 1986, Capitol launched an evening &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/closedown-of-capitol-radio-nitesky-96\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Closedown of Capitol Radio\/Nitesky 96&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,152],"tags":[487,302,564,432,78,252,153,304,739,744,743],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-487","tag-1988-closedowns","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-bryan-lambert","tag-capitol-nitesky-96","tag-conor-brooks","tag-dublin","tag-indie-music","tag-new-years-eve","tag-tony-gahan","tag-tony-lewis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Closedown of Capitol Radio\/Nitesky 96 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/closedown-of-capitol-radio-nitesky-96\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Closedown of Capitol Radio\/Nitesky 96 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Capitol Radio was Dublin&#8217;s alternative music station, broadcasting for five-and-a-half years from mid-1983 until the end of 1988. 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