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The Secret identity of Xan the Music Man
The real identity of Xan the Music Man is Alexander Campbell, an Australian born New Zealand, raised self-declared music nerd. Besides studying a BA at the University of Queensland, he is a multi-instrumentalist ranging from guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, clarinet, and harmonica. He has other hobbies but he refuses to share them with the public eye, for fear that model trains and stamp collecting would ruin his public image.
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For seven years Garry McKenzie presented Musicality on 2UNE (now Tune FM), the student radio station of the University of New England. For two years he produced and occasionally presented Air Time, a weekly Australian independent music program broadcast nationally on the Community Radio Satellite.
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 Some say he was Rohypnoled by a Psychopathic Hippy, woke up the next day in Toowong. Now he is in his first year of a Bachelor of Communications/Arts dual degree, promising a long association with UQ and JACradio.
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 Randalph Lai was originally born in Shanghai China, PRC in 1992. Over a period of eleven years he moved back and forth between East Asia and Australia, spending a great amount of time studying foreign languages culture and East v West divides. A love of culture, world events and all things insanely socio-political led him to journal and article writing at an amateur level.
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 Join Chris, Wilson, Andy and Paul for a show that covers everything that interests young people including but not limited to sport, cars and current events.
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 Olivia is mad about music. She has spent the better part of her tender young years digging through dusty vinyls and Rolling Stone Magazines, all the while wishing she was Fearne Cotton.
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 After realising a life of underpaid manual labour wasn’t for him, Taj Davis enrolled in a double degree in Communication and Journalism at UQ.
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 Lying on UQ's Great Court and people-watching is a sport for Cheryn Tan, because it gives her imagination-fodder for future stories, fictional or otherwise.
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After a 30+ year career as a teacher, assistant principal & lecturer in Australia and the UK, Helen Simons moved back to Queensland where she got involved in community radio. She says that her love of music and Jazz in all its forms began in her early teens growing up in Brisbane listening to Arch McCurdie who had a jazz program on the ABC.
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 The last time Suzanne Dorfield had to live without a computer for more than a day she was found trying to connect to the internet with two plastic cups and a piece of string.
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 John Dick (JD) has been around the world six times and has visited 36 countries. He left home at 21 to explore and has seen the Wadi Rum desert, the pyramids, the Eifel tower, and relaxed with nomadic camel.
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 When arriving in Australia in 2001, the London-lad quickly acclimatised to the year-round 45 degrees, exchanged words like 'chap' for 'mate', and discovered that Fosters is NOT Australian for beer.
Ted can usually be found at the University travel agent, buying cheap instamatics on eBay, or wherever there's live music.
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 Lachlan Mackintosh loves good wine, bad wine, cheap wine, expensive wine and seldom much beyond that. Sam Findlay is in the fifth year of his four year degree. When he’s not rocking the airwaves, he can generally be found with a pint and a pool cue in UQ’s very own Red Room. This possibly explains his degree’s unexpected longevity.
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 Josh Dutton began his studies in 2007 and has two passions: sports and rock ‘n roll. If AC/DC aren’t playing in his ears chances are the sweet voice of Ray Warren is.
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Matthew Tribe dreams of one day travelling to the stars, or failing that, becoming a radio announcer or other worthwhile contributor to society, rather than what some would currently call a ‘filthy student’ or ‘unemployed yobbo’. He studies Journalism at UQ, and was more than thrilled when the opportunity came to join his old school chum Josh Dutton for a smattering of audible banter on Jac Radio’s sports show extravaganza The Bench.
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 A nutritious diet of eclectic music tunes and verbal prowess is what makes Yolande and James unstoppable.
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Lachlan Boyd is an Arts student of the University of Queensland which means he has plenty of free time to waste making the radio show, Let’s Chat with his brother Timothy. Tim Boyd is a student at University of Queensland, studying Business Management, and is unsure which major he has chosen.
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 Jayson McNamara began his studies at UQ in mid-2007, hoping that a degree in Journalism would complement his intense passion for travel and other cultural adventures.
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 Proudly hailing from the diverse country of India, Aleysha Thomas adamantly tells people that she is certainly Asian – by repeatedly stating that India is a part of Asia.
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 Liz Hogberg's parents had barely dressed their baby before they took her travelling. She has since been around the world twice and is multilingual. She has a passion for science and understanding how things work, and is studying a dual degree in science and journalism.
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 John Austin's 28 year journalism background includes working across the communications sector - in the news medis, as a senior journalist and broadcast producer, and corporate communications and public relations manager.
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