Malcolm Gayfer

Hi there team. Just had to put this in. It was this week 1970 that one of the landmark albums of modern music was released. Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water. The album and several tracks off it were hits all over the world. S&G went there separate ways for several years after its […]

Hiya team, at last we’ve got some real summer weather, and just as schools start for the 2020 year. Anyways, I came across the other day, went to No1 in the UK this week 1979. A big hit here as well around that time. Ian Dury and The Blockheads Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. […]

Hi there team and welcome to another Mal’s Music Memory Two artists have made the news (so far) this week. Billy Idol for the wrong reasons and Ozzy Osborne. In case you haven’t caught up with it, Ozzie the Great has been diagnosed with a type of Parkinson’s disease. He really didn’t sound on top […

Sad news from the entertainment world. English actor Derek Fowlds has passed away aged 82. Derek Fowlds had a long career from the early ’60’s across stage, screen and TV. Some of a certain age might remember him coping with an irrepressible and irresistible  Basil Brush  (Boom Boom!). Derek Fowlds

Hiya folks, at long last some true blue southern summer weather has arrived. Let’s hope it stays for a good while. Anyways hands up those going to The Summer Concert Tour mega show at Gibbston tomorrow? Should be a cracker. Who better to feature than George Thorogood and Get A Haircut…..you know the

Sad to report that we’ve lost another. Mental As Anything frontman  Andrew McArthur “Greedy ” Smith died after suffering a heart attack. Greedy was on the road with the current line up of the Mental’s when he past away. I’m pretty sure that Mental As Anything performed on this side of the Tasman on

Hi there team, welcome and climb aboard 2020. We are back with Mal’s Music Memory brought to you with our good friends at Little Fire Music Works on Dee St To get the year going we remember the late Steve Gilpin, a founding member and voice of Mi-Sex. One of the hottest acts to come […]

Hi team, like a couple of things, news of Marie Fredriksson’s passing came as a bolt from the blue this week. Marie was the sound and the look of Swedish power band Roxette and passed away following several years of ill health. Her band mate and co Roxette creator Per Gessle paid tribute simply by [