Hi peeps, interesting thread about Pawl Shanley and Liam Kelly, the two of them have surfaced in Spain and recently set-up a pirate radio station operating as Radio Caroline Spain.
It seems this has been as successful as their pervious businesses, as the plug was pulled last Friday, with the poor backer left out of pocket to the tune of 11,000 euros.
I'll re-produce the messages from the pirate radio forum below, as I expect they'll get deleted, and I think it could be of interest to anyone that has had dealings with these people.
Dear Peter
It is with regret that I inform you that after irreconcilable differences over programming and continuity, quality of presentation and finance that Radio Caroline Spain ceased to broadcast today October 9th 2009 at 1315hrs local. This decision was made following a heated discussion with Alexander Baker the third partner, who wanted to drop our AOR Rock format and play the top forty and other pop tunes. I have been fighting the Caroline corner for too long alone now and, what with your criticisms and those of Alexander Baker, I am unwilling to continue. I do not want to own nor work for a pop station when there are three other stations here all playing the same drivel and not making money either and the presentation will be worse than any of them put together.
No doubt my departure will allow my name to be used to blame all failures, but I shall not let it happen without recourse.
I will sign off by saying that the last six months have been costly in both monetary and emotional terms and I am not too sad to have it all at an end.
There were however a few high points of which one was the pleasure I took in meeting you and sharing a small amount of time with you just the once.
I am sure you are very happy to have this all end now, since you had already declared that RCS was perhaps "only temporary" I cannot tell you how unhappy I am to have proven you right and what a loss it is to the many people who listened and contacted us to tell us what a sterling job we were doing.
Sincerely
Paul Shanley
Radio Caroline Spain
I dont know if you guys out there actualy know paWl shanley, but not only is he a liar he is also a con man, He promissed me everything when I funded radio caroline 11000 euros to be exact to get the station up and running in spain. The so called argument was nothing to do with the format it was to do with finances, we were struggling to get sponsors to keep the station afloat and paWl shanley came to work one day on a moped saying that he got the bike from a company rather than money to fund the station.
It came to a head as paWl shanley put nothing financialy into the station, after putting my 11000 euros in i felt i could do no more, we even got cut from the telephone 20e bill and the internet 12e, paWl shanley thinks that he can come to work on a brand new moped rather than get funds to help run the station,,,
now i ask you do you think i would throw 11000e away about programming,,,,NO is the answer, i just could not take any more of his lies and deciept, i thought radio caroline spain was an exellent station,. the only thing that let the station down was paWl shanley, If it was not for him the station would still be running now,,,im not going to throw that amount of money away,,, i am sorry you guys but im telling you the truth, its up to you if you dont believe me.
yours sandy b the flying fier,,,alexander baker.
POSTED BY ME OVER THERE:
May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
Will the real Pawl Shanley please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Pawl Shanley please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here..
Pawl Shanley is listed on the Radio Caroline Spain website as someone with a passion for flying and a background in advertising sales and we know he had someone called Liam working for him as the techy guy.
A Pawl Shanley, also known as Pawl Couzens, is featured on the ‘Professional Pilots’ forum as a man with a background in advertising sales that was last known to be heading to Spain with his ‘business partner’ Liam Kelly. It’s an interesting thread about dodgy business dealings, people being ripped-off and county court action.
On that thread you’ll notice post 106 is Liam Kelly posting in the same style as techy Liam did on here – for example using ‘Im’ instead of ‘I’m’ amongst other things– denying that Pawl Shanley/Couzens was anything to do with the new business of ‘Cotswold Flying Club’, but another poster at post 111 points out that Pawl Shanley/Couzens was featured on the company’s website as a member of ‘The Team’.
This does somewhat support Alexander Baker’s claim that Pawl is not all what he seems to be.
THIS INFORMATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
May I have your attention please?
May I have your attention please?
Will the real Pawl Shanley please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Pawl Shanley please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here..