I was lucky to be part of that history-making period, working as DJ on Radio 270; the Yorkshire station based in Scarborough and broadcasting from the Oceaan 7, a converted Dutch fishing vessel, usually at anchor off Flamborough Head or Bridlington Bay.
Just Arrived!
Sent to me by the ever kind Guy Hamilton. Ah memories.

Here are some
memory-lane photo's.
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Me in the studio in Aden (1964). (The hair!)
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Doing my last Aden show, outside with Kit. (1965)
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Dennis The Menace Straney.
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Rusty Allen
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Paul Burnett
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Mikey Mo
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Mike, Guy, Hal and Rusty
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Rusty, Mike, Guy and Hal
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Me in the studio
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Oceaan 7's bridge
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The Guv. Wilf Proudfoot
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Guy and Mike - 2006.
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Paul and Mike - 2010.
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With BeeGee Maurice Gibb and Gary Brooker,
of Procul Harum, Eden Playboy Club, Berlin 1968 -
With Maurice and the two non-Gibb
members of the early Bee Gees,
Eden Playboy Club, Berlin 1968 -
With Neil Christian and an AFN DJ
Eden Playboy Club, Berlin 1968 -
Me posing, Big Eden Club, Berlin 1968
signature-tune with which they started and
ended their shows. I loved mine. It was
Ted Heath, a well known band-leader, and his
Orchestra and the tune made famous by Al Jolson,
There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder!!
And some more memories. Here's a silly-song,
influenced by the one and only Goon Show,
I recorded to announce the one and only ME!
Mike Hayes Is In Town Again!!
A surprise from Guy Hamilton was this 'lost' recording of the last 3 minutes of one of my breakfast shows.
It's a bit scratchy and almost 50 years old!!!
Go! Go! Go! With Mikey Mo!
Here's a wonderful insight into the world of pounds, shillings
and pence and supermarket prices in the 60's.
The Proudfoot Supermarket commercial!!
A lovely memory for 270 fans is this 5 minute recording from the 1966 Christmas Rave presented by me and ably interrupted by the Hamilton. 270 Christmas Rave!!
In 2009 I was contacted by BBC Tees to do an interview about Radio 270. Click here to hear the interview with Ken Snowdon.