Michael is a disc. Jockey in the UK at Classic FM. You can visit the site at http://www.classicfm.com or you can give them a call at Tel +44 (0) 20 7343 9000. He has been a disc. Jockey for 11 yrs now.
He was born in Scotland, and always try to get home for a holiday. The wildness and remoteness (especially when hill walking) are just what's needed after too long a stint in London. He's lived in London for nearly 9 years, he moved there to work for Classic FM when the station opened in 1992. It's perhaps the first radio station in the world not to have a stuffy attitude towards Classical music, and as such has a wide range of listening ages. He got into radio by mistake.
Favorite color: Red
Favourite soda: Irn Bru (honest......it's Scotland's other national drink!)
Favorite Fast Food: cheeseburger, or anything with chocolate
Favorite cartoon character: Homer Simpson
Favorite cartoon: Anything by Gary Larson, or The Simpsons
He had graduated from Aberdeen University with a French degree, but wanted to study music, so he had to pay his own way. There was a weekend job (making tea more or less) going at the local radio station in Aberdeen, and things sort of went from there. Now, having been in radio for 11 years, he's making a bit of a change. His local primary school needed a pianist for a summer production, so he volunteered, not knowing that he would get interested in teaching. So now he's teaching during the week and working at Classic FM at weekends.
If he had the chance to meet any one it would be Bill Gates, so that he could slap him around the head for not making PCs as easy to use as Macs.
If he had the chance to work at any radio station would pretty much do what he's doing just now, but with more holidays and some extra cash to enable me to travel. Africa would be high on the list.
Is the oldest in a family of six.
Hate's wearing a collar and tie.
Love's travelling, especially visiting the USA, although I've only been twice: to New York and New Orleans.
Is not comfortable with heights, although he love's flying.
Play's the organ and piano.
His most exciting musical experience was playing the organ in St.Paul's Cathedral in London: 5 keyboards, hundreds of stops and an 11" echo.
The internet is both the best and the worst thing to happen to him in recent years.
Has quickly discovered that working in radio doesn't pay as much as people think, certainly not enough to buy an Astin Martin.
Didn't want to work in radio or live in London; but now he live's in London and work's in radio.
His grandfather financed the experiments of John Logie Baird, the man who invented TV.
He onece got locked out of the studio one evening when he was the only one in the radio station......it's scary seeing the CD finish through the window and not being able to do anything about it.
The only thing to make him 'corpse' on air was a colleague walking past the studio window with a frozen meal on his head.
A listener asking for a piece of music by a Scottish composer, Jiminy Docherty. Turned out to be a Frence piece titled Gymnopedie.
You are likely to spend 80,000 hours of your life at work.
In a recent British survey, Scots and Americans were voted as most likely to be good employers.
While Tchaikovsky was conducting an orchestra, he used to hold onto his head because he was afraid it would fall off.
There are 120 viruses which cause the common cold.
Robbie Williams is officially the most sexy man in the world (or so a survey says)
On average, British men spend �10 on Valentines gifts, whereas British women spend �30.
Drinking hot chocolate is good for you, as it helps stop blood clotting in your veins.
Charles Darwin kept 10,000 barnacles in his house.
One in five British men can't sleep properly because of their partner's snoring.
On February 7th 1989, sardines rained on Ipswich in Australia.
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