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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Duncan Campbell started the Campus Radio Sound System -- Auckland's first-ever reggae radio show -- in 1979. In these dark days, reggae was hard to come by in NZ: and to mailorder the volume necessary to run a show, it was necessary to get an importer's license from the Custom's Service. Duncan recounts the evolution of the show. (Episode 6, Parts 1-4 of 4)
Andrew Boak first appeared at Radio b with a demo of his mod band The Regulators in 1980, and soon after became one of the "Gang of Andrews", the team who transformed the station into basically what we know today. He went on to NZ's first commershull FM station while still spinning discs on b's Resurrection Punk Show and playing guitar in the legendary No Tag. (Episode 25 Parts 1 and 2 of 2)
In this episode, Dubhead turns the mic on himself & relates tales of his 24 year involvement in 95bFM - 19 of those as the host of The Rhythm Selection. From rocksteady to roots reggae, experimental avant-garde to singing a commercial for car stereos, Dubhead asks himself the hard questions and explains why the magic of radio has never ceased to amaze him. (Episode 24 Parts 1-2 of 2)
When you think of an archetypal bFM DJ in the late 80s and early 90s, you think of a character very much like Owen 'The Jackal' Harris; a dedicated musical omnivore who would go hungry rather than pass up on buying records. Buying LOTS of records. Owen also was partly responsible for the world's first-ever documentary series on Split Enz, as well as frequently hosting The "surprise" and "special" parts of 95bFM programming, focusing on one artist, label, or era. He has been a resident of the USA this century, where he works for the space program (we think). (Episode 23 Parts 1-2 of 2)
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