Name Dave Collins | Role DJ | |
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Dave Collins is a British radio DJ who has broadcast across a number of radio stations in his career including Voice of Peace and Radio Caroline and a dozen radio stations in the UK.
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Career
Dave was born in Liverpool. His real name is David Young. After leaving school, worked as a carpenter/joiner for Liverpool City Council. He gained a City and Guilds qualification in his trade and lived at his parents home. In his spare time, he worked on various landbased pirate radio stations in Liverpool such as Radio Elenore(he was owner/programme manager after Peanut Kenny decided to quit radio). He also spent a short period of time working on ABC Radio in Dublin in the early 80's.
In 1984, he decided to go to Israel to join The Voice of Peace radio station for one year. He was known on the peace station run by Abie Nathan and broadcast from the East Mediterranean as Paul Rogers, the same name he used for Radio Elenore in Liverpool.
On the world famous station Radio Caroline, he was the first to be heard on the radio in the early hours of 7 August 1985 where he used the name Dave Collins for the first time as the station already had a DJ with a similar family name, Del Rogers. Caroline DJs on board the ship at this historic time included Susan Charles, Peter Philips, Johnny Lewis and David Andrews in addition to Dave Collins.
Following Radio Caroline, he enjoyed another spell In Ireland, on the breakfast show at Radio West in Mullingar and then more than a dozen radio stations in the UK. He has been presenter and at times head of music at many radio stations in the UK including Radio Top Shop in Newcastle and Liverpool, Marcher Sound in Wrexham, Radio City in Liverpool, Red Rose in Preston, CFM Carlisle and Wire FM and even had a stint in programme management at CFM as Head Of Presentation, The Bay in Lancaster and Alpha FM in Darlington. More recently, he has worked as Account Manager for Yorkshire Coast Radio and Minster FM and Sales Account Manager for Viking FM/Magic 1161.
Dave also broadcast again on Caroline, from a ship docked at Albert Dock in Liverpool from March 31, 2014. This was a RSL called Caroline North Liverpool on 87.7FM.
Following his days in offshore radio on Radio Caroline, VOP and Radio Seagull, Dave has also been included in The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame.
In February 2008, after leaving Wire FM, he went on a travelling around the world with his partner.
He currently lives in Brussels working for The Brussels Times and is responsible for sales at various European English speaking radio stations
He also presents a weekly show on Radio Seagull www.radioseagull.com on DAB+ and 1602AM.