Andrew G

About me:

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Hey. I work on the telly, I work on the radio.
I was born in London, and moved to Adelaide when I was four months old; had my first memory at six months; fell in love with music soon after; moved to Brisbane and joined a choir at five; wanted to be Gene Simmons at six; picked up a guitar at nine; fell in love with pop music at ten (when I first heard take 40 on the radio!); saw my first gig at eleven (it was Redgum, and Elton John a few months later); got my first electric guitar and started high school at twelve; went to music school and saw Bon Jovi's slippery When Wet tour at thirteen; started playing bass and joined my first real band at fourteen; played first real gigs at fifteen in my high school band 'The Brown Hornets'; started playing double bass, joined an orchestra and was in every school musical at sixteen; had high school rock fantasy moment (we were GODS of that school social), fell in love, lost virginity, had heart broken and didn't get into uni all at seventeen; became a touring roadie at 18; went to music school again at 19; was unemployed, joined another band called Feeble's Junky playing bass and gigged my arse off then got a gig at B105 in Brisbane at twenty; worked radio and played music at twenty-one; toured, released a CD and worked more radio at twenty-two; worked radio, released another CD, played double bass in another band called 'Resin Dogs' for a few months until they hired someone better than me (Chris was a bass hero of mine for years, he's really good), and Feeble's broke up at twenty-three; bought a theremin, worked overnight shift at B105 six days a week and took a month to go to Czech Republic with my Dad, quit B105 and hooked up with SAFM Adelaide at twenty-four; sent a video over and got a gig at Channel [v] so I moved to Sydney and became an Australian Citizen at twenty-five; learned to Snowboard at twenty-six; learned to surf at twenty-seven; went to Canada snowboarding at twenty-eight; started doing 'Idol' and played double bass in a country band, "Cryin' Skies" at twenty-nine; started at Take 40, then went back to Canada to snowboard, break my hand and turn thirty (guess which I planned); went around the world with my little brother snowboarding in Japan, partying in London and watching the Lakers in LA at thirty-one; got a real blog learned to play poker, joined the Bondi Longboard Club, bought my first two Takayama surfboards, went on my first real surfing safari, got to live my game-show host fantasy and get engaged at thirty-two; went to Las Vegas to eat great food, play black jack, dance in a lovely suit with my fiancée and shake the hand of my all-time Idol Prince at thirty-three; started to learn to read and write Hebrew, took responsibilty for my own brain, began to DJ seriously, learned to Stand-Up Paddle surf, watched my beloved fluffy cat Toby get sick enough to have go to sleep forever and then took 80 friends on a trip around Israel that ended up with me marrying my very best friend at 34. I love being alive. It's the best. Life is for living. xx aag ..