Malcolm Gayfer

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 [

Ho Ho Ho team and Christmas greetings to everyone Here’s a couple of Christmas crackers for you. Can’t have a Christmas without Mariah Carey’s All I Want….. Heard on the news that this song has finally reached No1 on the Billboard charts in the US. No1!! That’s after 25 Christmas’s. They also said t

Hi team Welcome to the last month of the year. Just think, in a few weeks it’ll be the ’20’s. Anyways, I was having such a good time resurrecting songs from from 40 years ago, 1979 and it struck me. I haven’t put in any Kiwi tunes from ’79 So here we go with our […]