{"id":1808,"date":"2020-06-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2023-07-02T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T15:46:58","slug":"wls-music-radio-galway-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wls-music-radio-galway-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Allan on WLS Music Radio (Galway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6330\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1808-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3\">http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=1808-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19861009-1132-1232-TonyAllan_WLS.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"490\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tony-Allan-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Allan on WLS Music Radio (Galway)\" class=\"wp-image-1817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tony-Allan-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Tony-Allan-1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption>Tony Allan (right) on the day of the Radio Nova closedown in Dublin in 1983 (photo courtesy of Joe King). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a recording of WLS Music Radio in the Pirate.ie feature on the Galway pirates of the 1980s. Made on the 9th of October 1986 from 1132-1232, it features one of the best-known pirate radio voices of the era, Tony Allan. Tony worked on many British offshore pirates including Radio Caroline in the 1960s and the Voice of Peace anchored off the Israeli coast in the 1970s. He came to Ireland in 1979 and his voice was heard on pirate station idents throughout the country throughout the 1980s including WLS and Coast 103 in Galway. He also presented on various stations including Radio Nova, voicing the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/nova-close-down-19-05-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">closedown promo of 1983<\/a>. Shortly after the vast majority of the pirates left the airwaves at the end of 1988 due to new broadcasting legislation, Tony and Steve Marshall of Coast 103 set up Quincentennial Radio in Galway. Tony passed away in 2004 at the age of 54 following a cancer diagnosis. There is a tribute to him <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreradio.co.uk\/tony.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Allan on WLS Music Radio (Galway)\" class=\"wp-image-1786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/24-Prospect-Hill-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A current view of 24 Prospect Hill, to where WLS moved in December 1986 (photo by John Walsh). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 1986, WLS moved to spacious new offices on Prospect Hill off Eyre Square in Galway. Anoraks UK commented that the facilities were at the standard of any British ILR station of the time. Many thanks to Ian Biggar of DX Archive for sharing this recording. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recording of WLS Music Radio in the Pirate.ie feature on the Galway pirates of the 1980s. Made on the 9th of October 1986 from 1132-1232, it features one of the best-known pirate radio voices of the era, Tony Allan. 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