Malcolm Gayfer

Hi there folks. Welcome to my look in The Rear View Mirror, a semi regular look at what’s been going and not going on around Invers and further afield. First up have you had a look at the demolition job in the central city. The demolition crews have really been at this week with a […]

Hi team and welcome  to the middle of March, already! Time for another Just Good Song. This one from 1977 from The Brothers Johnson, Strawberry Letter 23. This is the only hit of their’s that I recall getting played on the radio back in the day and it’s still a good song today. Just listen […]

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. […]