Makereta Brown | Martin Dillon | Lucy Dunningham | Drunken Moose | Louise Evans | Anna-Kaye Forsyth | Jessica George | Calum Gunn | Debbie Knowles & Julie Mulcahy | Graeme Lay | Jess O'Connor | Dominic Perry | Levin Shome

Makereta Brown

Makereta was brought up in Devonport , went to see the big bad world and came back recently to dupe an unsuspecting local boy into marrying her. Having been in turn a legal executive, a PA, a customer service rep, a viticuluralist, a pharmacy assistant, and a healthcare worker, Makereta decided at the beginning of 2008 that the only logical thing to do next was to become a full-time writer, outsell J..K. Rowling, and buy her husband (Makereta's, not J.K. Rowling's) the fishing boat he deserves as soon as possible. After a "hugely inspirational" course at the Michael King Writer's Centre, she is currently working on a children's novel and a murder mystery, both of which she promises will be finished by the end of the year. She also hopes to branch further into radio interviewing. Makereta has four god-children, no pets, and is inspired by a great family and an army of great friends.

Martin Dillon

Martin has been living in Hillcrest on and off for the last 12 years. He studied law and philosophy at various times in Hamilton, Auckland, and Wellington. Martin now works at a central Auckland law firm, and takes frequent walks up Queen Street to Real Groovy's bargain bins. His homemade shows feature a great deal of electronic music, but also a fair amount of jazz, funk, soul and blues.

Lucy Dunningham

Lucy of 'Blather' likes nothing more than having a good laugh. She has a BA in English Literature and still has journalistic aspirations. She embraces all aspects of the arts, especially contemporary dance, film and stand up comedy. She would love to set up her own comedy café (name yet to be released....)

Drunken Moose

Oliver 'Drunken Moose' Eason has been DJ'ing for a few years now. He is currently living in a beautiful house in the farmlands near Lake Rotoiti, 15km out of Rotorua. The Moose records his mind-bending sets of drum'n'bass, jungle, dubstep, breaks, reggae, dub and blunted beats in a garage in the bottom paddock of the farm, then straps them onto a carrier pigeon and delivers them 247 kilometres north to Jam Radio. If you listen really carefully, you might be able to hear the cows in the background.

Louise Evans

Louise comes from a music/arts/history background, and a beautiful place called the Treehouse up in the Hokianga. She's  worked at Jam since January 2007, researching and building the station from the ground up. She produced a number of shows, as well as interviewing and doing post production for other programmers. She also is a folk musician, artist, cyclist, keen vege gardener, and music booking agent. 

Anna Forsyth

Anna Forsyth calls herself a hobbyist, allowing her the opportunity to explore a passion for the arts, including creating poetry. Writing and editing educational resources and working at the occasional "conventional" temp job allows her to be fed and watered and to keep a roof over her head. In 2007 she released her second chapbook of poetry, entitled "Sometimes I Wonder", which was the follow-up to "Wonderment", released in 2006. Plans for the future include travelling the world on one-way tickets and keeping active on the poetry and arts circuit (including radio work.)

Jessica George

The hostess of Mmm...Frosted!, has an affinity for local indie music, Godzilla t-shirts, and brightly coloured cupcakes. Originally from the States, she made her way to New Zealand with only a photo of a sheep, fifty U.S. dollars, and her beloved soft toy, Loafy. Now Jessica is back in the States, sending her Frosty tones through to Jam from afar.

Calum Gunn

Hello, I'm Calum and I like avocados. I'm an audio engineer in training and a bass both in instrument choice and voice type.  I'm host of wee show with my friend and fellow Devonport native, artist and architect Sam Edward. Our show is entitled 'Love Songs Till Midnight', and tends to be a cross-section of music we want to hear, so we assume others do too. A little arrogant perhaps? But we do what we like. Such is the nature of Jam.

Debbie Knowles and Julie Mulcahy / Springboard

Debbie was formerly a teacher and head of Learning Support at Carmel College. Julie is currently a resource teacher for six North Shore schools. Working together under the name Springboard, with a diverse group of clients, they put together Action Plans for many different needs – out of control teens/families struggling with grief/complex learning difficulties/toilet training for pre-schoolers/alcohol and drug issues/sexual abuse/adult literacy – to name a few. Their show on child development features interviews with experts in these areas, in an informal yet informative manner....

 

Kalaedoscopic Ben

Born in the Fluxus Quo of a four space dimensional incursion, Ben’s views shift, lock and drift as the hard drive spins and the world rotates. His tastes are broad and insatiable, bound only by time the perceptual sensory range of the human body within this continuum.

His search for a new quantum reality bound by the precepts of love, music and creativity continues to astound those who cross his influence cone. Ben became a cyborg in April of 1991 and strives to understand both his digital and meat brothers more completely every day. He has been known to feed his robot many strange things.

Graeme Lay

Graeme Lay has lived in Devonport for 26years. He is the author or editor of 38 books, the most recent of which are the novel Alice and Luigi, the travel memoir Inside the Cannibal Pot, and the short story anthology The New Zealand Book of the Beach. He is currently working on an illustrated book about the artists and writers who came to the South Pacific in the colonial era.

Jess O'Connor

I'm Jess, a sixteen-year-old Takapuna Grammar student who loves reading, writing, and almost anything French. I'm fascinated by people, so anything I do on Jam will be based around humanities as opposed to music; which is lucky for you as my taste is definitely trashy (I'm a Classic Hits fan and own almost every Sheryl Crow CD). When I grow up I either want to be a journalist or a teacher, but I can't decide so I'll probably do both!

Dominic Perry

Dominic currently attends the University of Auckland and hopes to complete a BA in Ancient History within the next few years.He spends his days in solitary confinement with only a bottle of bourbon called Herman for company. His IQ is 64 and he used a ghostwriter for this blurb. He listens to rock and metal and intends to rock out until they nail shut his coffin, after which he will rise from the dead to kill you all. Beware the stereotype!

Dominic also enjoys listening to a range of music such as classical, jazz and pop, and reads science fiction novels...

Levin Shome

Levin Shome is proud to add broadcasting to his experiences. He's been a musician, poet, sometime actor, stand up comedian and activist. He has a BA in Indonesian and Sociology and a Business diploma. Levin somehow tends to be the token Asian in exciting projects - not sure why. He's counting down the days when he takes over the world as an artiste.

 

Alison Titulaer

 Alison wears many hats, the most favourite of which is her actress hat. By default she had to put on the producer hat, in order for her to wear her actress hat more often, and wore both hats for her first professional stage production of David Mamet’s play Oleanna, at the Musgrove in September last year. Recently she has been trying on the writer hat, and the voice artist hat, which brought her to these pages of Jam Radio. Really she just wants to avoid wearing the waitress hat! In addition to hats Alison likes putting on her gardening gloves, her baking apron, and her pink ribbon dancing shoes.