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Personal Profile
Don't expect any startling revelations, just an idea of the sort
of bloke I am.
Born and
raised in Middleton on Sea.
Early
memories of Clymping School, which is tucked away just off the
A259 (and despite what the roadsigns say, it is spelt with a Y!)
in what seemed like a huge snow drift at the time, but in
retrospect I was just 5 at the time so it was probably about 1
foot deep!
From Clymping onto Felpham
Community College, which mistakenly awarded me with 12 GCSE’s
and 2 A Levels.
The Day Job
Onto real life, upon leaving education I
joined a High-Street Bank, working my way up from the boy who makes
the tea all the way to Cashier and Customer Service supremeo....
whilst working out of every branch in South West Sussex at one
time or another in my 7 years.
Now working for a multi-million dollar international company,
managing and developing their online customer service support
tool, supporting many blue-chip clients worldwide.
Radio
Career
Got a ‘Ronco’
radio with microphone one Christmas and was hooked on a career
in radio.
Joined
Chichester Hospital Radio at 16, and spent 8 years broadcasting,
fundraising, producing and ward visiting.
I was
involved in 2 charity broadcasts for Radio Cracker in Worthing
in 1992 and 1993. I helped arrange a trial broadcast for the
Chichester area in 1994 called CBR-fm.
Joined Spirit
FM at launch and am just as active behind the scenes as well as
in front of the microphone, as Spirit FM’s in-house producer. I put together some of the adverts you hear on
the station, most of the jingles, and sit at the controls when
the station goes on location on an outside broadcast. I can also
be heard on-air on Sundays, providing the soundtrack to the
West Sussex weekend
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Career
Highlights
Being
Chichester Hospital Radio’s "Member of the Year" 1994 (and I’ve
still got the certificate to prove it!), and interviewing Jeremy
Beadle and the Bognor Clowns Convention, asking him if he knew
that the clips on You’ve Been Framed that were staged weren’t
funny. He cut the interview short and walked off in a huff!
Mobile Discos
Got involved
with the fund-raising mobile discos when I was at Hospital
Radio. I hosted the Children's Ward Christmas party for 4 years
and thought to myself this could be a bit of a side-line. Was
asked to cover a New Years Eve function in 1995, using borrowed
equipment, and after borrowing it for a few other gigs, brought
it outright in 1997! Currently doing discos as the resident DJ
at a local sports club, but will consider most bookings
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Quotable
Quotes
“Well you’re
dammed if you do, and you’re dammed if you don’t” – Bart Simpson
Films/Food/TV
You can't
beat a good action movie like James Bond, best seen in the
Cinema with the sound effects rattling around you. A big fan of
the films of Quentin Tarentino (except Jackie Brown... that one
never really grabbed me). On the telly I'll never miss an
episode of Hollyoaks (how sad am I...?); and classic British
sit-coms.
Currently
into
Classic Comedy on DVD. The collection just
keeps growing... Complete Blackadder, Phoenix Nights, Fawlty
Towers, Brasseye, The Simpsons, Little Britain and loads of
stuff I taped off the telly!
The Death List... who's
next...?
Family Guy,
Heroes, House, Prison
Break (except the last series and finale!),
Lost,
The Daily Show, Fringe, CNN, Psychoville, FlashForward,
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