I received a nice email this morning from Kevin Boyle, one of the guys behind Ideas Improv (watch the video above). He writes: Hey Andrew — I don’t know how I happened upon your 30 ideas in 30 days but it gave me …an idea. I wanted to see if there were more Andrew Dubbers [...]
Categories: Idea
I’ve been teaching music radio programming for a good few years now. All right, maybe it’s a decade. Or more. At any rate, it’s something that I really love doing and it’s something that I think there’s a real opportunity to have fun with, particularly given the technology available now. That said, it’s not as [...]
Tagged: Radio
I have a book out from the library. It’s a little overdue. Actually, it’s about eight years overdue. I suspect they’ve cancelled my Auckland Public Library membership by now. The book is called ‘The Shoestring Pirates’ by Adrian Blackburn. It’s the true account (more or less) of four men who set sail to establish a [...]
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Tagged: Auckland, Book, hauraki, New Zealand, Radio
If you like cats, or stories about cats – or if you just like stories – here’s a Christmas gift from me to you (and your kids, if you happen to have any). I made a ‘cartoon for radio’ about 15 years ago. It’s about cats – well, specifically about one cat, Ashley, who finds [...]
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My ‘Soul Food Sunday‘ jazz (etc.) sessions at the Hare and Hounds each week are now being broadcast on a local radio station in Mangawhai called Smooth Jazz 88.1FM. Mangawhai is a beachfront holiday village in the north of the North Island of New Zealand. It has spectacular sand dunes, a lagoon-style harbour, a surf [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: jazz, New Zealand, Radio
Back in 1996, I was a self-employed (self-unemployed, more like) radio producer. I’d quit my job at talkback station Radio Pacific after five years making ads for retirement villages, incontinence pants, the Mad Butcher and horse-racing events. Along the way, I’d learned how to make radio programmes and had developed a focus on jazz. My [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Photo by YlvaS I’ve been thinking a great deal about radio over the past few weeks. After having done the conference keynote in Auckland, a number of things have lined up to bring me back into that world, after a good five or so years being only peripherally involved at best. I’ve been asked to [...]
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I spent the last few weeks in Auckland. There was an international academic conference about radio, and I was the opening keynote speaker, which was a real honour. You can download the text of my speech here as a PDF if you’re interested, complete with the images that I used as slides. It was great [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand,Radio
I’ve spent the last week or so in New Zealand. I’m doing the opening keynote speech at the International radio conference being held at AUT from the 11th of January, and I’ve come over a bit early so I could spend Christmas and New Year in the summer sun with my parents, sisters and extended [...]
Categories: Music,New Zealand
Tagged: ashley's worlds, claybourne, Radio, TAP Records
Mark Roach, John Peel and me – photo by Paul Kennedy Back when I was still a radio lecturer in Auckland, we had news that John Peel was coming to town, and so I made efforts to try and get him to come in and give a guest lecture to my third-year class. To my [...]
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