Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’
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. […]
Filed under: 1970s, 80s, AFTRS, blog, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Electric Cars, Google, Graham Mack, Inside look, Inspiration, Media, podcast, Radio, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube | Closed
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 […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Graham Mack, Media, podcast, Radio, Shock, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube | Closed
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 […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Media, New Zealand, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube | Closed
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 […]
Filed under: AFTRS, blog, Broadcasting, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Conspiracy, corruption, Graham Mack, Inspiration, Media, podcast, Politics, Radio, true story, Uncategorized, Youtube | Closed
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
Queen’s Birthday
The Queen’s birthday is confusing. This week, she turned 90 but although she was born on 21st April, her “official” birthday is in June. It’s a tradition that was started by George II in 1748 and it owes its origins to the ageless problem of the British weather. George was born in November and felt […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Australia, Britain, Broadcasting, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, countrerfeit, Graham Mack, London, Radio, Royal, Royalty, TV, Uncategorized, Youtube | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Britain, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, New Zealand, News, Queen, Queen's Brithday, Radio, Royal, Royal Family
In this one we talk about David Bowie. Let’s hope people start getting his name right! Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and tweet a link. If you’d like to talk to me about it, call me on +44 1438 422106 between 6 […]
Filed under: AFTRS, blog, Broadcasting, Comedy, Compliants, Inspiration, Live event, Media, Memories, New Zealand, News, Newspapers, Radio, Rock n Roll, TV, Uncategorized, Vlog, Youtube | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Auckland, Blog, BOB fm, Bournemouth, Bowie, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, David Bowie, Graham Mack, Name, New Zealand, News, Radio, western Springs
Top of The Lake
Compared to New Zealand, Britain is pretty uptight and it’s getting more uptight. You used to be able to walk along Downing Street. Now huge railings and gates stop you getting close. I have 8mm cine films my Dad shot of me as a kid standing outside the door of number 10. That same film […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Commercial Radio, Commercial Television, Engineering, Enviroment, Lifeboat, New Zealand, Radio, RNLI, Transport, Travel, Uncategorized | Closed
Tags: 1912, 2003, Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand, Queenstown, South Island, SS Earnslaw, Steamshop
Our Church.
There was one person I wish could have been at our wedding in New Zealand. This week, Julie and I celebrated our 28th wedding anniversary. Thinking back to that day in 1987, I can’t remember if it was a lack of money or her age that kept my Nana away. I know she definitely would […]
Filed under: AFTRS, blog, Broadcasting, Memories, New Zealand, Travel, Wedding Anniversary | Closed
Tags: 1987, AFTRS, Aircheck, Bay of Islands, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Liverpool, Nana, New Zealand, Northland, Tikipunga, Warrington, wedding Anniversary, Whangarei
On this day in 1987, a pipefitter from Great Sankey near Warrington and Julie Halford from Tikipunga in New Zealand were married at St Paul’s church, Paihia in the Bay of Islands. Happy 28th wedding anniversary Sweetie! Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” […]
Filed under: New Zealand, Travel, Wedding | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, Bay of Islands, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Broadcasting, New Zealand, Nothland, Paihia, St Paul's Paihia, Wedding, wedding aniversary, Whangarei
All Black To My Place.
New Zealand is a very special place and Kiwis are a unique group of people. We met some very important New Zealanders in London yesterday. The Rugby World Cup is only days away! As Julie & I met and got married in New Zealand (I even took out citizenship), we’re going to be supporting the […]
Filed under: Rugby, Rugby World Cup, Sport, Travel | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, All Blacks, London, New Zealand, Rugby World Cup
Hot and Steamy Down Under!
I almost asked my in-laws to watch soft porn. Julie’s parents live in New Zealand. When we speak to them on the phone they always mention British TV shows that they get on the telly over there. I know when they watch anything that’s filmed in England they try to imagine what it must be like […]
Filed under: BBC, Broadcasting, Drama, film making, Radio, screen, Sex, Television | Closed
Tags: AFTRS, Aircheck, BBC, BBC1, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Doctor Foster, film crew, Hertfordshire, Hitchin, in-laws, New Zealand, Radio, sex, sex scene
My Cover is Blown.
There’s a copyright claim against one of the videos I put on Youtube recently. Youtube uses software that automatically detects if copyrighted music is used in any of the videos you publish. In 1986, I lived in New Zealand and was in a 60s cover band called Liverpool Direct. A video of us doing a […]
Filed under: 1960s, Music, New Zealand | Closed
Tags: 1960s, 1980s, 1986, AFTRS, Aircheck, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Graham Mack, Liverpool Direct, Manfred Mann, New Zealand, Northland, Pinball Wizzard, Pretty Flamingo, The Who, Whangarei
Amy’s disastrous love life, freaks that make inappropriate suggestions online, memories of refinery construction work and appearing live on New Zealand television. That’s what we talk about in this one. Craic on! Listen to the latest Mack Nuggets at; http://www.mackmedia.co.uk/8th-mack-nuggets-audio-video If you enjoyed this Craic, please click “like” and tweet a link. If you’d like to talk […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Comedy, Construction, Music, Television, Vlog | Closed
Tags: 1990, AFTRS, Aircheck, Blog, BOBfm, Broadcasting, Construction, iMovie, Marsden Piont, New Zealand, Telethon, TVNZ, vlog
I got the feeling things had come full circle in 2008. Before I got into radio, in fact before I became an air-conditioning mechanic, I worked as a pipefitter on an oil refinery construction site in New Zealand. I was 18 when I first started on the site, it was 1983. I stayed there till […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Construction, Travel | Closed
Tags: Action Television, AFTRS, Aircheck, Broadcasting, Construction, Global Warming, Insulation, Lagging, Marsden Point, New Zealand, Oil Refinary, Ted Parker, TFM Radio
Land of The Long Night Loud!
New Zealand is a unique place and there’s something special about the country pubs there. In the 80s, The Misfits were a pub rock band in New Zealand. I joined them as lead singer in 1988. We played rock ‘n roll, three and four nights a week, in all sorts of venues and at all […]
Filed under: AFTRS, Broadcasting, Live, Music, Rock, Travel | Closed
Tags: Bream Bay, Live, Misfits, New Zealand, Northland, Pub Rock, Rock 'n' Roll, The Kinks, Travel, Waipu, Waipu Hotel, Whangarei
