Great film for pirate radio fans

Rating: 8/10 (26 June 2012)

As a fan of pirate radio, I was looking forward to watching this movie with eager anticipation. I have some tapes sent to me by a friend in the UK of different pirate radio broadcasts from pirate ships in the 1960's-70's, and could only imagine what it would be like to be broadcasting from sea. This film brought that imagination to life, bringing you back to a time before automated, bland format radio stations with no personality became the norm, to a time when DJ's were celebrities.
I'm sure it's a fanciful interpretation, and probably nowhere near to reality, but it was definitely entertaining to watch the antics of DJ's and radio crew who just wanted to bring a genre of music to the British Isles that for some reason the BBC and British government didn't think it necessary at all. The movie is entertaining and gives quite a few funny moments, like when the nighttime DJ risks his life to save an album from the sinking ship, only to have another DJ call the album crap and toss it back into the water.
Even if you're not a fan of pirate radio, you should be entertained by this movie. It is kind of a David vs. Goliath story, even though Goliath doesn't fall down dead. This is a movie I'll want to watch again and again, but then again I'm a radio nerd.