{"id":3491,"date":"2021-01-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2021-08-06T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:56:46","slug":"jingles-for-twiggs-fm-in-galway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-for-twiggs-fm-in-galway\/","title":{"rendered":"Jingles for Twiggs FM in Galway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3371\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3491-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1987_Twiggs_jingles.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1987_Twiggs_jingles.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1987_Twiggs_jingles.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\/2021\/01\/1987_Twiggs_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3491-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1987_Twiggs_jingles.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"1987_Twiggs_jingles.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Jingles for Twiggs FM in Galway\" class=\"wp-image-1815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-1536x863.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Twiggs-flyer-1-2048x1151.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Twiggs FM flyer (courtesy of Ian Biggar). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Twiggs FM broadcast from Salthill in Galway for about six months at the end of 1987 and beginning of 1988. It was based at the Eglinton Hotel on Salthill promenade and was called after the hotel&#8217;s popular nightclub. Twiggs FM regularly broadcast gigs from the club and there was a student vibe from the station with promos for events at University College Galway (now NUI Galway) and the Regional Technical College (now GMIT). The station was set up by local man Shane Martin and Alan Russell from Dublin who had established another Galway pirate, Atlantic Sound, in 1984. Sound engineer Roland Burke from Dublin was also hired. Many DJs were enticed away by the bigger and more professional station Coast 103 and Twiggs FM closed in March 1988 due to financial difficulties.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a set of clever Twiggs FM jingles and liners from 1987, featuring the voices of the late Roland Burke and Gerry Moore. Gerry Moore did voice-overs for many pirates in Dublin during the 1980s. We thank Alan Russell for this donation.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twiggs FM broadcast from Salthill in Galway for about six months at the end of 1987 and beginning of 1988. It was based at the Eglinton Hotel on Salthill promenade and was called after the hotel&#8217;s popular nightclub. Twiggs FM regularly broadcast gigs from the club and there was a student vibe from the station &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/jingles-for-twiggs-fm-in-galway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jingles for Twiggs FM in Galway&#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":[16],"tags":[505,322,329],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jingles","tag-505","tag-galway","tag-twiggs-fm"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jingles for Twiggs FM in Galway - 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\/jingles-for-twiggs-fm-in-galway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jingles for Twiggs FM in Galway - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Twiggs FM broadcast from Salthill in Galway for about six months at the end of 1987 and beginning of 1988. 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