Offshore 50 - The Overview

This video is an overview of the Offshore 50 event that took place on August 14, 2017 in London.

The video starts with the arrival of the attendees, followed by :

- Meeting each other

- Looking through the photobooks of offshore photographer Martin Stevens

- Catching up, chatting, sharing memories

- Taking lots of photos and

- Remembering Augst 14, 1967 at 3pm, followed by a number of speeches

The video ends with a videoclip of "We don't belong" by Sylvan and a list of the attendees and the organisers.

Mary Payne describes this event as follows:

It was The Biggest Offshore Reunion, Ever! On 14th August 2017, over 100 offshore radio personnel gathered on a ship on the Thames to mark 50 years since the Marine Offences Act decided that even though they were entertaining a third of the UK population with music, what they were doing had to be made illegal...

This 40 minutes video provides you with an overview of the event.

If you would like to put names to the faces, please see the name tags or look at my photo collection of the event:

Please refer to the website of Mary and Chris Payne for more information on Offshore 50 :

The videoclip of "We don't belong" by Sylvan was especially made for the Offshore 50 event by Gary Quinn of Oldies Videos :

This video is titled "Offshore 50 - The Overview", but there's more! Look out for something special this August.