"The Boat That Rocked" is a comedy film which was released in the UK in April of this year and will be in U.S. movie theaters August 28. ("The Boat That Rocked" film poster. Photo Credit: © Universal Pictures)
"On Air. Off Shore. Out of Control" says the film's website. It's a comedy set in 1966 about a fictitious offshore Pirate Radio station broadcasting from a ship back to the United Kingdom.
"The Boat That Rocked" stars Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost and others and tells the story of a station called Radio Rock which upsets the established broadcasting standards of the day by spewing rock music 24-hours-a-day.
Although not based on a particular Pirate Radio station of the era, if the trailer is any indication it successfully presents the wild feeling and flair that offshore Pirate Radio brought to the times.
See It: View The Boat That Rocked Trailer on YouTube
More Online: Visit "The Boat That Rocked" official website. It's really a lot of fun.
The Real Pirates: Find out more about Pirate Radio
Comments
Having lived, breathed & listened to the UK
offshore pirate radio stations in the 60’s,
this film certainly lived up to all my expectations.
It certainly captured a great moment in British music history. I would highly recommend you go and see it. Great soundtrack and a laugh a minute. I’m looking forward to owning it on DVD so I can watch it over and over again. For the record the film was based
around the ledgandary Radio Caroline.
My family lived in Brussels, Belguim in the early 60’s and I LOVED, as a teenager, listening to Radio Caroline. Indeed the one time I remember is New Year Eve, 1963, lying in bed that night listening to Caroline as their two DJ’s were broadcasting, totally drunk, telling jokes, with any bad word possible!
From what I read the movie is not about any one pirate radio ship, but truthfully Radio Caroline was the most famously wild radio station of them all. I remember hearing about the ship being boarded by the Royal Navy and shut down even
Did you also know that this occurred in New Zealand in 1966, with the radio station Radio Hauraki broadcasting from a ship near Auckland?