Dom Nola, former bFM Programme & Music Director, discusses her time at 95bFM from the mid-80s to early 90s. During her time at 95bFM Dom was also the manager of Flying Nun's NRA and later The Jean Paul Sartre Experience. She was the co-producer of the first syndicated New Zealand music radio programme called Crashhot, which aired on the B.Net, & on College Radio Stations throughout the U.S.A. Currently, Dom owns an indie label - & since 2013 became one of the Co-Hosts of the 95 BFM Jazz Show. Dom also enjoys DJing around town, & babysitting visiting rockstars. (Episode 1)
Another of "The Andrews" who stormed the hippie b-astion of Campus Radio at the dawn of the 1980s and got the radio station on the path to the future with consecutive broadcast licenses and ready for FM. Andrew was one of the crew who transplanted the station to Ohakune for a legendary 3 week stint, and was the station manager for two years - without his parents knowing until they saw him on TV. (Episode 27 Parts 1-2 of 2)
Renee Jones - longtime Saturday Afternoon host, cartoonist, and industrious music industry worker -- tells of arriving at 95bFM in 1989, after an obsessive love affair with the station which began in her first year of high school. Being fired from Freak The Sheep, being considered "old school" while in her mid 20s, and deciding to marry her husband after hearing him on the radio (but not meeting him until later). (Episode 26 Parts 1-2 of 2)
Hugh Hughes, the character formerly known as Hugh Sundae, was something of a broadcasting prodigy after he found his way into bFM at age 14. By age 17, he was standing in for breakfast host Graeme Hill for a 6 week period, ensuring that high school lost any appeal whatsoever; and before he was 20 he was co-hosting a TV show with Bic Runga. He's even been to Mongolia (tho he doesn't talk about that here). (Episode 28 Parts 1-2 of 2)
Host of the RnR Wire for more than 11 years longer than he expected to be and still there every Friday 12 - 2, Troy kind of lives in his own world where every piece of new music has the potential to deliver thrills and make life worthwhile. Often, people disagree. Like the "upper middle class clique" at 95bFM in the 90s who were like "the colonial aristocracy cricket team not allowing the natives and the women to join in". (Episode 29 Parts 1-2 of 2)
From his first show on bFM -- a one-off Wednesday night "chill out" mix he called "b By Candlelight" -- Mike Havoc has brought a unique sensibility to the airwaves. Engaging and polarising, his sharp opinionated wit and overflowing enthusiasm for his favourite high-adrenalin joyous music has sustained him through the highs and lows of the last 16 years. Yes, when Helen Clark became PM the second question she was asked was whether she would continue her Monday on-air discussions with Mike. (Episode 30 Parts 1-3 of 3)
Andrew Black 1984 to 2007 "No vacuum cleaners!". "I've been here for 15 years". "I have been known to tell callers to burn in hell". There's many quotes from Andrew Black, Wanker; but he once stated that a quotation from elsewhere summed him up best:: "I am ill, I am angry and I'm as ugly as sin..." No, not Dostoyevsky's Notes From Underground, but Magazine's Song From Under The Floorboards, a song he surprisingly overlooked in this episode. Plenty of growling, grumping and griping though. (Episode 31 Parts 1-3 of 3)
Jennifer Weather-Centre 1993 to 2000 Jennifer, oh Jenny... Drawn to 95bFM by a psychic flash, she became a breakfast show shining star across three + different hosts, utilising a saucer and a flagpole to report on Auckland's weather. Jennifer Weather-Centre was one of the most effervescent voices on 95bFM throughout the 1990s, and in this episode gives her perspective on the hosts she worked with and the music she associates with them. (Episode 32, Parts 1-3 of 3)
DJ Sir Vere 1991 to 97; 2002 Phil Bell found his way to b via punk rock, and from there to a lifelong record buying addiction. After producing a New Order fanzine in the early 1980s and learning the art of live DJing from his Dad, he became a renowned club DJ in the late 80s. Then, along with DLT, Slave & Base, he founded the "world famous" Trueschool Hip Hop Show, and branched out into careers in television and print media. "I don't want this episode to be all about punching people in the face, but..." (Episode 33, Parts 1-3 of 3)
Steve Simpson 1996 to 2006 Does anybody recall when he was Steve "The Jaguar" Simpson on Monday Drive? No? But you remember when he was "Natalie" on Breakfast. Anyhow, Steve was a Drive host, Wire host, Breakfast producer, Sales rep, Sales Manager, Brand Manager AND member of a bunch of bands formed for bFM events. Oh, and he was in Pash: they played the Nth Shore Events Centre with Garbage & Ash, on a bill which should have been listed "Ash, Pash, and Trash". (Episode 39, Parts 1-3 of 3)
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