| BACK TO THE BASE! What's a man to do. The country's State broadcaster
threw the book at me and I
took the hint, returning to my home base, Cape Town, to pursue a less
regimented career path and spent the next two years (1996 and 1997)
setting up new radio stations, including one of the country's most
successful ones, UCRFM in the Eastern Cape hometown of Nelson Mandela
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I was also lucky enough to partner up with a
similarly-minded radio person, Arn Allingham, who joined me in
inaugurating a still-successful radio broadcast course at technical
college level. The course runs at the Cape Technikon, the biggest
college in Cape Town proper, in conjunction with the province's biggest
adult radio station, and has been been the source of other courses now
running throughout the country. We helped in feeding the radio bug of dozens of potential radio people, many of whom have gone into the
industry full-time. I was also part of the team that successfully applied
for a licence to become the first independent, national Afrikaans radio
service, PUNT.
After a break of some years in Asia, I moved to the UK where I got
back into radio and joined the presenter team for a national satellite
network as well as helped run the official radio station for the
Glastonbury Festival and became a Director for a new FM service for the
city of Bristol. Phew.
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Not Just A Radio Guy...
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| BEFORE I FORGET. I wasn't just a radio presenter. I liked doing live
gigs too. While working for BRFM and RADIO ALGOA in East London, I'd also
spend a few
nights a week indulging my other passion: club deejaying. NUMBERS
ON THE BEACH is one of South Africa's top dance clubs, and I worked
crowds there from 1991 until 1996. It really is the business and it
still packs them in a couple of times a week. Trouble is - not enough
House music, though. |
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So What Do I Listen To?
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| Musicwise, my bags are deep House, Drum & Bass,
2-step, Garage and Hip-Hop, so burn your guitars NOW! Oh -
and my fave classical composer is Johan Sibelius, so there. I suppose
that I really should have some kind of music links page,
shouldn't I? |
