Malcolm Gayfer

Hi all. Hope that you’re all getting used to the earlier (and earlier) sunsets and cooler temps. Anyway for March we’re playing Just Good Songs with our friends at Little Fire Music Works. Were you around when this song, Escape (The Pina Colada Song) was playing everywhere at the end of 1979. A grea

Hi team, we’re back and ready to celebrate music from days gone by. Did you know that Split Enz album True Colours is 40 this year? I didn’t realize that either til Neil Finn posted that it was this week that marked the 40th anniversary of that iconic album entered the NZ music charts at […]

Hi team Another blow for the automotive industry on both sides of the Tasman. General Motors have announced that they are retiring the Holden brand. Holden was one of the mainstays, workhorses when it came to cars and utes here and Australia. This was back in the day when you either had a Holden, Fo

Hi team…a massive week for music fans, particularly fans of Elton John and Queen. Both acts are doing their thing at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin in the coming days. It’s fair to say that a decent number of Southlanders are going to one or other, or both and why not! Sir Elton is in […]

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