Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’
I haven’t worked for twenty-seven years. That’s because I’ve had a job in radio. I’ve been a presenter and programmer. Neither of those things can be compared to actual work. Before that, I had proper jobs. I was a pipe fitter on an oil refinery construction site in New Zealand and an air-conditioning engineer in […]
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Tags: Australia, Blog, Coronavirus, COVID 19, feedback, fired, Fix Radio, Google, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, life, Media, medical, New Zealand, News, Radio, Sacked, Studio, Sydney, Unemployed
We should never have gone!
Timing is everything and we picked the wrong time to visit Julie’s parents in New Zealand. We haven’t been back there together for seven years. We made a big mistake, we should never have traveled all of that way and I’m truly sorry for the stress and anger we caused with certain members of Julie’s […]
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Tags: Air New Zealand, Auckland Airport, Australia, Boris Johnson, Captain Scarlet, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Disaster Movie, Graham Mack, Heathrow, Hitchin, Jacinda Arden, LAX, LHR, London, Los Angeles, Mysterons, National Express, New Zealand, Premiership, Self-Isolation, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, Trump
When I caught up with my old mate Steve Shaw in Whangarei New Zealand this week, we talked about the band we were in together in the 80s, an Oscar winner’s brief stint as frontman and why the rhythm guitarist wasn’t on stage for the last set at my final gig. Here’s one of our […]
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Tags: Blog, Forum North, Google, Inspiration, Internet, Les Neal, life, Mecca, Media, Move It, Movies, Music, New Zealand, Oscar, Pips Whangarei, Radio, Russ Le Roq, Russell Crowe, Steve Shaw, the Misfits, Travel, video, Whangarei
Night Terror!
When you have a traumatic experience, your senses heighten. That super-awareness burns a memory of the event into your brain forever. That’s why you hear people say they know exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard news that shocked them. Years later, people are able to describe otherwise forgettable details […]
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Tags: Blog, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, JV2, life, McKenzie Bay, Media, MRC, New Zealand, Northland, Pipefitter, Radio, Whangarei, Whangarei Heads
Julie and I have been back to the church where we got married in 1987, St Paul’s in Paihia in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand. I met Julie in Whangarei while I was working as a pipe-fitter on the Marsden Point Oil Refinery expansion construction job. When we met, my parents had moved […]
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Tags: Bay of Islands, Blog, church, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, Julie Mack, life, Marry, Marsden Point, Media, New Zealand, News, Northland, Paihia, Radio, religion, St Paul's, Tapper Crescent, Tikipunga, Travel, Whangarei, Widnes
New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is a weak leader and one of the worst people in the world to be in charge of this special country right now. I used to like Jacinda Ardern. I thought she was different to the power hungry megalomaniacs running other countries in the world. It turns out, I […]
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Tags: Auckland, Blog, Computer, Coronavirus, COVID 19, feedback, Google, Inspiration, Internet, Jacinda Ardern, journalism, Leadership, London, Media, medical, New Zealand, News, Pandemic, Politics, Prime Minister, Radio, Self-Isolation, Travel, Whangarei
We went to a special place in New Zealand this week. It was a nice respite from working around the travel restrictions brought in by the Governments of the United States, Australia and New Zealand. Craic on! If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and tweet a link. Check out, www.grahammack.com
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Tags: Air New Zealand, Blog, Google, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, Liverpool, New Zealand, Northland, Paihia, Radio, St Paul's, Travel, Warrington
Unclean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are being told to self-isolate in New Zealand. Although we got into the country just before the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, brought in compulsory 14 day isolation for visitors, she’s now suggesting we should self-isolate anyway. The reason we made this trip to Julie’s home town for the first time in seven years […]
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Tags: 14 days, Air New Zealand, Coronavirus, COVID 19, Jacinda Ardern, lepers, London, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Self-Isolation, Singapore, Singapore Airlines, United States, Vancouver
Home Sickness
A question I always find hard to answer is, where is home? Julie and I have lived in many places and hold passports for three different countries. We live in Britain, Julie’s parents are in New Zealand. We haven’t seen them for a while and it looks like we picked the wrong time to visit […]
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Tags: Australia, Blog, Britain, Computer, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Graham Nack, Inspiration, Internet, Media, New Zealand, Pandemic, Radio, Self-Isolation, Sydney, Travel Ban, USA, Whangarei, WHO
Mack Nuggets
Here’s what I’ve been up to on Fix Radio lately, including: The Queen confesses to Donald Trump about her sordid past. The writing is on the wall for Mick. A selfie with Wayne Rooney. A special birthday song. The stripper. The sex festival. Steve’s worst Christmas present. Television New Zealand ripps of the USA but […]
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Tags: Birthday, Christmas, Donald Trump, Glastonbury, John Cleese, New Zealand, Piers Morgan, The Queen, Wayne Rooney
Mack Nuggets
This is what I got up to on Radio Merseyside from 2016 to 2018, including: The end of the world; What Charlie said; Ricky Tomlinson talks about Mickey Finn; Liverpool’s zoo; Andrew Neil gets taken down; Connections to celebrity; Roger McGough talks about the Blitz; a journey from hell; The real reason why Liverpool fans […]
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Tags: Andrew Neil, BBC Radio Merseyside, Chuck Berry, Donald Trump, Father's Day, Henry Ford, Keith Chegwin, Liverpool, Mickey Finn, New Zealand, Paul McCartney, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger McGough, The Twist, You'll Never Walk Alone
Howzat
I don’t know who to support in the Cricket World Cup. I was born in England and have lived in New Zealand and Australia, I have passports for each country. I’m leaning towards Australia because I didn’t get to pick where I was born and moved with my parents to New Zealand when they emigrated. […]
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Tags: 2GO, Australia, Blog, Central Coast, Google, Inspiration, Internet, Media, Music, New Zealand, Radio
Mack Nuggets
Here’s what I’ve been up to with Gaz Drinkwater on Fix Radio Manchester, including;Show Us Your Tips; Greater Manchester Police using GPS data from speeding drivers; Why democracy doesn’t work; Travis Perkins v the cat; Rednecks in New Zealand; The dispute with Steve Brookstein. Craic on! If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and […]
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Tags: Blog, Cats, Computer, feedback, Fix Radio, Gaz Drinkwater, GMP, Google, GPs, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Internet, journalism, life, Manchester, Media, New Zealand, News, Police, Politics, Radio, Rednecks, Steve Brookstein, Travel, Travis Perkins
Mack Nuggets
Here’s what I’ve been up to on BOBfm lately, including: Tom Cruise in trouble in London. Songs with your name in them. Is Elvis really dead? Electric cars ARE the future. What would you tax? Etiquette faux pas. The last Big Ben Bong. Why Britain is the greatest country on earth. The bathing suite insult. […]
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Tags: Birthday, Blog, Britain, Driverless Cars, Edinburgh Festival, Elvis, EV, Faith No More, feedback, Google, Hotels, Inspiration, Internet, Media, New Zealand, News, Politics, Radio, The Great British Back Off, Tom Cruise
Crude Oil
Revenge is a dish best served cold. From 1983 to 1986 I worked as a pipe-fitter on the expansion project at Marsden Point oil refinery in New Zealand. During the shutdown, I worked with a trades assistant who told me he enjoyed working with me, because I was nicer to him than the boilermaker he’d […]
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Tags: 80s, AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, Marsden Point, New Zealand, Pipefitter, Radio, Shutdown
Old Time Rock n Roll
Today I found an old cassette from 1989. It was a live recording of the band I used to be in when we lived in New Zealand. I thought you might like to hear it. The band was called The Misfits. They’d been together for years and were the top band in Northland. I joined […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Billy T James, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Chuck Berry, Comedy, Graham Mack, Misfits, Nadine, New Zealand, Radio, The Quindells
Knightmare
Sir Philip Green should not be stripped of his knighthood. If he did something wrong, he should go to jail. Green is under pressure after a parliamentary report into the collapse of the retail chain British Home Stores was released. MPS accused him of ‘systematically’ taking money out of the company, failing to address its […]
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Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Anthony Blunt, BHS, BOB fm, Broadcasting, Character, Fred Goodwin, Graham Mack, Jimmy Savile, knighthood, MPs, New Zealand, Paddy Power, Radio, Rolf Harris, Sir Philip Green, Stuart Hall, Tim Rarron
