{"id":6883,"date":"2022-08-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2022-08-07T08:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:33:16","slug":"solid-gold-sunday-on-wls-music-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/solid-gold-sunday-on-wls-music-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9647\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6883-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-A-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-A-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-A-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\/2022\/08\/8060AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=6883-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-A-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8060AI-A-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00-00-83-Steve-Marshall-ERI-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio\" class=\"wp-image-7008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00-00-83-Steve-Marshall-ERI-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00-00-83-Steve-Marshall-ERI-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00-00-83-Steve-Marshall-ERI-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/00-00-83-Steve-Marshall-ERI-rotated.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Steve Marshall at ERI in Cork c. 1983 (courtesy Lillian O&#8217;Donoghue). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of commercial Galway pirate WLS Music Radio (1985-1987) features the Solid Gold Sunday programme presented by one of the station founders, former offshore DJ Steve Marshall. Steve worked in Cork pirates such as South Coast Radio, ERI and WKLR before coming to Galway. Today&#8217;s tape was recorded on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> September 1985 from 102.7 FM and includes a promo for the station at the top of the hour. Audio quality is fair to poor in places and it is not clear if this is due to a degraded cassette or a problem with the receiver or recorder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-1024x655.jpg\" alt=\"Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio\" class=\"wp-image-6884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-rotated.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Cassette label from Anoraks Ireland Collection. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 1 above runs from 1458-1544 and part 2 below from 1544-1630. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8060AI-B-192.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Part 2 from 1544<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The recording is from the Anoraks Ireland Tapes Collection, donated to us by Paul Davidson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of commercial Galway pirate WLS Music Radio (1985-1987) features the Solid Gold Sunday programme presented by one of the station founders, former offshore DJ Steve Marshall. 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Today&#8217;s tape was recorded on 22nd September 1985 from 102.7 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/solid-gold-sunday-on-wls-music-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio&#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":[488,564,322,325,323],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-488","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-galway","tag-steve-marshall","tag-wls"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio - 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\/solid-gold-sunday-on-wls-music-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Solid Gold Sunday on WLS Music Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of commercial Galway pirate WLS Music Radio (1985-1987) features the Solid Gold Sunday programme presented by one of the station founders, former offshore DJ Steve Marshall. 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