{"id":10767,"date":"2025-06-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=10767"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:47:13","slug":"june-bank-holiday-1986-on-energy-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/june-bank-holiday-1986-on-energy-103\/","title":{"rendered":"June bank holiday 1986 on Energy 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2371\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10767-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AI1888-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AI1888-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AI1888-192.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\/2025\/05\/AI1888-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=10767-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/AI1888-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AI1888-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986-1024x670.jpg\" alt=\"June bank holiday 1986 on Energy 103\" class=\"wp-image-10100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986-1536x1005.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Andy-Carter-Energy-exterior-2-1986.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Energy 103 studios at 144 Upper Leeson Street (courtesy Andy Carter). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the summer of 1986, Energy 103 was established as one of the three big Dublin pirate stations, following the sudden closure of Radio Nova earlier that year. This recording was made on a sunny bank holiday Monday in Dublin and contains plenty of references to the fine weather and people listening to their radios in the garden. Up first is Richard Jackson until 1500 and he is followed by Dave Johnson (Andrew Hanlon) who is standing in for Tony McKenzie. There is no news due to the bank holiday but a promo urging young people to vote in the forthcoming divorce referendum airs every hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As was typical of Energy 103, the recording contains the usual mixture of chart hits, loads of requests (including one from Tipperary) and slick imaging although there are no adverts, possibly due to the bank holiday. A promo for the syndicated American Music Magazine show with Rick Dees is also heard. The tape is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection and was made from 103 FM from 1433-1521 and 1557-1645 on Monday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> June 1986. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the summer of 1986, Energy 103 was established as one of the three big Dublin pirate stations, following the sudden closure of Radio Nova earlier that year. This recording was made on a sunny bank holiday Monday in Dublin and contains plenty of references to the fine weather and people listening to their radios &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/june-bank-holiday-1986-on-energy-103\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;June bank holiday 1986 on Energy 103&#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":[152],"tags":[536,173,564,153,12,627],"class_list":["post-10767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-andrew-hanlon","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-dublin","tag-energy-103","tag-richard-jackson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>June bank holiday 1986 on Energy 103 - 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\/june-bank-holiday-1986-on-energy-103\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"June bank holiday 1986 on Energy 103 - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By the summer of 1986, Energy 103 was established as one of the three big Dublin pirate stations, following the sudden closure of Radio Nova earlier that year. 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