Pub-based radio station BOOGALOO RADIO is holding a special launch-party this month!
Based at The Boogaloo on Archway Road in North London, it's the world’s first and only 24/7 online radio station broadcasting inside a pub.
The storied boozer has been making a name for itself in rock'n'roll circles for the best part of two decades. Various Libertines worked behind the bar, Shane MacGowan lived upstairs and the likes of Nick Cave, Joe Strummer, The Streets, Sinead O’Connor, Primal Scream, Ken Kesey, Howard Marks and many more have been regulars over the years.
Boogaloo Radio was founded by DJ Jenn Crothers and Gerry O’Boyle, the landlord of The Boogaloo, and former owner of the infamous Filthy Mac Nasty’s pub.
Gerry says “Boogaloo Radio is the most exciting thing we have ever done. We are able to share the pub, its musical heritage, its amazing presenting talent and the chaos of operating an online radio station broadcasting to 227 countries from an old bin shed in the pub beer garden in true punk rock guerrilla style. If we were a book, we’d be Please Kill Me...”
Jenn adds, “Using the original 1960s American FM radio format where the presenter is also the curator, alongside modern technology we’ve built a direct bridge between host and listener, creating that feeling of listening to one of your good friends. It’s an old formula, brought to you by modern technology, and we’re doing it from the back of a pub. The aim is for listeners to feel like they are in on the excitement. The pub has become the station and vice versa. Our plan is to live stream everything that happens - gigs, debates, comedy, pub quizzes and DJ sets."
Boogaloo Radio DJs include the likes of pub rock supremo and Stiff Records founder Dave Robinson (pictured), The Libertines, Bernard Butler, Jack White’s Third Man Books, Ace Records, The Magic Numbers, Shane MacGowan and David Morrissey, while so far guests have included Holly Johnson, Clem Burke, Blood Red Shoes, Bez from Happy Mondays, Irvine Welsh, Madness and Johnny Marr.
The launch night takes place at The Boogaloo - where else?! - on Thursday 25 January. You can listen live at booglaooradio.com.
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