5:42PM Jess McGuire | Lord help us all.
During summer, as you would all well know, the regular broadcasters from all radio stations go on holidays and relax and have “experiences” so they can create a valuable stockpile of hilarious anecdotes to dazzle your ears with over the first few months of the new year.
In their place? Various talented folk specially selected for their musical knowledge, wit, passion, and charm. And sometimes – just sometimes – when those people aren’t available, people like me get to have a bash at time slots which don’t just appeal to long haul truck drivers high on Ritalin ‘n’ NoDoze cocktails.
WHICH MEANS… as of Monday morning, Your Editor (ie: me) will spend three weeks tormenting the good people of Melbourne with my croaky early morning voice on RRR’s Summer Breakfasters program. Melbourne listeners can tune in to 102.7FM from 6am til 9am each weekday morning, and folks anywhere else may like to stream online from
rrr.org.au.
While I don’t sound particularly healthy in the morning (no, really – ask Triple J weekend breakfast listeners! Even if I go to bed at 6pm the night before, if I’m in front of a microphone before 6pm, I sound like I’ve been huffing bongs and drinking hard liquor for several days straight) my co-hosts are very talented individuals.
The first two weeks (December 15th – 26th) will see Ryan Egan from RRR’s Local And/Or General fame keeping things afloat and ensuring the show doesn’t dissolve into a mess of Richard Wilkins jokes and Phil Collins’ back catalogue, and during the third week (December 29th – January 2nd), the famous Tony “Biggsy” Biggs from RRR’s On The Blower will slap me into line and keep me from even contemplating spinning 12 minute remixes of Meat Loaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”.
I will try and ensure you still get to start your day with fresh Australian idiocy on here, but if I’m a little late – forgive me, and tune in to hear it in audio form.
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PS: If you are listening on Christmas morning, I fear for you.
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