DJs are lining up for a celebration of pirate radio and offshore broadcasting in Harwich this weekend.

Radio Mi Amigo will be joining up with Carillon Wellbeing Radio to return to the airwaves tomorrow and Sunday.

The two-day pirate radio event will take place on Harwich Quay and has attracted a host of DJs to transmit from the restored lightvessel LV18 as a tribute to the 60s offshore radio stations.

This year’s on-air team, headed by the programme director Garry Lee, will bring back the popular sound of the pirate stations which broadcast from just off the coast and were served from the Ha’penny Pier, which is now the permanent berth of LV18.

Joining the crew will be two DJs from America and music connoisseurs, ex-pirate BBC Essex presenter Tim Gillett and ex-BBC Suffolk presenter Stephen Foster.

The broadcast will run 24 hours a day, from midnight on the Saturday morning till midnight on the Sunday night.

Tony O’Neil, curator and trustee of the LV18, said: “This tribute to the offshore pirate radio stations will celebrate the likes of Radio Caroline, Radio London and several others that appeared off the coast of Harwich in the 1960s, bringing about a revolution in radio broadcasting.

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“Following the previous pirate radio broadcasts from LV18, which attracted thousands of visitors to the area, Radio Mi Amigo will celebrate the watery wireless days from the studio, located on the bridge of the lightvessel.

“Further to previous years’ events, LV18 will broadcast from her permanent berth by the Ha’penny Pier, Harwich, enabling members of the public to not only visit the classic vessel on the Sunday, but to meet the DJs.”

The classic heritage vessel LV18 featured in the film The Boat that Rocked and now hosts a pirate radio exhibition.

The broadcast will be available on the Carillon radio website at carillonradio.comand may also be heard on 1476AM.