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 IrvineJUMP! is PBS FM’s longest running (& often ONLY) Retro Dance programme,
Commencing waaay back in October 1993. Currently hosted
by yours truly, the one & (thank god) only, Tony Irvine,
IrvineJUMP! presents a show dedicated to Dance Music mostly from
the 80’s & 90’s, with an emphasis on Alternative Dance music.
If you're interested in other PBS shows, check out the Programme
Grid on your left by clicking on the button...
Past
co hosts include (in rough Alphabetical order):
Pictures of some of these people on the Photos page
Andrez
(One time host of our very own Cyberdada)
DJ
Sun
(Very briefly, and one time host to our very own "Dedeuce")
Eleanor
Brooker
(Purloined from Monash University's 3MU)
Josie
Parrelli
(One time host of Delirious on PBS FM &
now host of the RMITV show, Chartbusting
80's on Channel 31)
P.
King
Nowadays Co-Host of Radio
De Janeiro
Victoria
Gilbert,
(Also purloined from Monash)
Update: After 11 years (which is 12 yers too long) Victoria Gilbert has returned to the PBS fold. welcome back :-)
Please visit this site as often as you feel like. I am
adding stuff (some say too much stuff, but can you ever have
too much of a good thing?) all the time, like play
lists, links and more photos if I get 'em!
This section of the website is divided into
Six parts, all of which can be accessed via the links just below...
What
section of the show do you
want to know about? |
Unsolved
Mysteries | Singing
in the 80's | Tales From the Crypt
Metal Machine Music | 4 Play feature | About Me
 Starting
at 2 AM, IrvineJUMP! presents Contemporary Dance
music (Mostly, anyway), stuff given to the show by record companies,
as well as stuff bought from Music Stores, Second hand music shops
and even thrift shops (You'd be AMAZED at what you can track down
in a thrift shop. I paid 50 cents for my copy of "Lil
Louis' French Kiss", a close friend paid $40.00 for his)!
By the way, the IrvineJUMP! theme was NOT written specifically
for the show! It was actually written waaaaay back in 1984
on the Greengate DS 3, a sampling Programme for Apple II Computer
no less, or at least that's what I've been told anyway. The LP
cover above is a picture of one and I may scan another pic I have
of Mike Douglas (Session player for OMD, Human League) playing
in Adelaide (Don't ask me why Adelaide, in the 20 years since
the event I still haven't worked it out) before he apparently
got deported. Written by Rod Grant and Chris Long (Nowadays working
at Gold FM believe it or not, better him than me!), solely to annoy me!
Bored?
Why not download the Theme...
"Unsolved
Mysteries"
(What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that
song,
right now, at this moment?) |
Unsolved
Mysteries | Singing
in the 80's | Tales From the Crypt
Metal Machine Music | 4 Play feature | About Me
Then,
at 2.30, IrvineJUMP! presents the “Unsolved
mysteries” segment (Aaaarrrggghhh!!!), a segment devoted
to the worst music we can find (fortunately, it’s only one
song long!!!). The theme itself is (of course) the
theme to the American Television show of the same name.
Past efforts have included Star Trek’s William Shatner’s attempt
to sing “It was a very good year”; a cover of the "Bonanza"
TV theme (with words); and (one of my all time faves) Peter
Phelps (from TV’s "Stingers") attempt to cover “The
more I see you"!!!
Check
out the more extreme examples here!
Unsolved
Mysteries | Singing
in the 80's | Tales From the Crypt
Metal Machine Music | 4 Play feature | About Me
Fans
of IrvineJUMP! are quite varied, but lot of them
really get into 80's Dance Music (I guess you gotta love Eurocheese,
I do)! For that reason, IrvineJUMP! will
now present an HOUR'S worth of 80's music, every week. But not
the same old crap every station on the planet's playing. I've
come to notice that the current 80's trend is a VERY selective
look at what eventually became the most conservative decade
I've lived through so far, so I'm trying to air the more interesting
tracks that came out during that time...
From
2.30 am to 3.30 am weekly, IrvineJUMP! presents
"Singing in the 80's", more of the music you want
to hear...
Unsolved
Mysteries | Singing
in the 80's | Tales From the Crypt
Metal Machine Music | 4 Play feature | About Me
At 3.30 am, the next segment is Tales from the crypt, a segment
where an Artist (sometimes famous, but more often interesting
or tragic) is featured, then information is presented on what
they are doing now. The
theme for this segment is (unsurprisingly) the theme to the
ULTRA COOL show of the same name, written by the incredibly
talented Danny Elfman (The Band Oingo Boingo, The Simpsons,
Beetlejuice, Batman, Sledge Hammer). The results
can be good (people rumoured to be dead can be found recording
a new CD), as well as sad (people disgraced in controversial
circumstances commit suicide), not to mention a certain person
who was caught stealing a Teletubby (I've GOTTA know... WAS
it the purple one?).
Unsolved
Mysteries | Singing
in the 80's | Tales From the Crypt
Metal Machine Music | 4 Play feature | About Me
After
the 3.30 segment is a very brief segment dedicated to heavier
forms of electronic music. As I've said in other sections
of this site, TWO one time co-hosts has rekindled my interest
in Industrial music and indeed heavier music in general.
So I have introduced this segment so that some of this stuff
will at least get a look in... I would make it longer, but
to be totally honest with you peoples, I only have a small
amount of this stuff, though hopefully, my collection will
build as time goes by... For those interested, this is the
kinda stuff I listen to at home...
 I
guess my interest in music can be traced back to at 1973, when
at he age of 10, I heard the song "Popcorn" by hot
butter (A song that's been covered MANY times since it was released
some time back in the 50's) blaring out from a friend of my
father's car radio! Even though I had no idea what a synthesizer
was (and wouldn't for about another eight years) I was OBSESSED
with trying to work out how that song was done... The
next step in my musical journey takes me to 1979, when I first
heard "Are friends electric?" by Tubeway Army (Gary
Numan's band BEFORE he went solo. Did you know his UNCLE
used to play drums for him?). I was hooked! It was
a sound unlike anything I'd ever heard on the Radio, and I HAD
to have more... Until I heard that Gary Numan was influenced
by John Foxx's "Underpass", which to this day remains
my favourite song of all time!
In
1981, I joined Adelaide Community Radio station 5 MMM FM ( Now 5 DDD, or Three D Radio). If you're interested in
seeing their site, why not click on the picture (right Navbar)
or Email them).
In the 5 years that was there, I was a breakfast Announcer, Producer
and even ran the Schools, Community and Radio Project (S.C.A.R.P)
for 9 months back in 1983. However
Music has always been my obsession and in late 1983 I bought my
first keyboards. I formed with friends my first band in
1984,
"Psychotronix", which performed live and recorded demos
until I moved to Melbourne in 1986. I continued with my
obsession with music, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.
My next band was "The Womble Bashers" (Hmm, like the
name, maybe I'll resurrect it!) in 1986, while it was a LOT of
fun, it didn't last
very long... The
Next Project was
"Arty Fiscal", which lasted for two years and got to
gig in several states. After a stint in a print shop, I
got the Community Radio urge in 1993 (as well as more keyboards)
and joined PBS FM after hearing Nick Moore present "Rude
Mechanical" (Nowadays "Rude Future", hosted by
David Thrussell & the Anti Deluvian Rocking horse peeps)...
As well as Announcing on PBS, I also set up and set out the internal
station newsletter in 1998 and have been the Insomnia Category
Coordinator (The person in charge of the Insomnia timeslot) since
1994...
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