MANDY'S MANIC MONDAY: Monday 6 pm - 8 pm

I have 1 Husband, 2 boys and 1 dog, I love them all and I can’t imagine my life without them.

I’m passionate about health, fitness, the environment, having a great mindset, personal growth, being kind and supporting others.

I moved to the Sunshine Coast from Sydney in 2017 and its so good for my soul on so many levels.

I’m super excited to be a presenter at Noosa FM spinning classic hits and rarities from the 80’s and 90’s.

SHAKEN & STIRRED: Sunday 6 pm - 8 pm

Growing up the mantra was “girls can do anything” and I have. I have hunted beside a real-life Dundee figure in North Qld; done the wild party thing; swam naked and danced with dingoes. I had 30 years experience in Education, am a published Author, a University Lecturer, Mentor, a Change Agent and a Global Heart Coherence Ambassador. I raised a family and completed 2 Master’s degrees. I honour my creative side as a Quilter and Writer and provide space for my spirituality by using meditation and mindfulness every day. Having lived with Parkinson’s Disease for 14 years, my passion now is helping those with Parkinson’s live the best life they can. Shaking & stirring your mindset at 6pm Sunday nights, meet you there!

So, it is about letting my passion for helping others - guide me as I do my
thing:

T- Talk together,
H - Heroes in health
I - Interviews and investigating ideas,
N - Navigating Parkinson’s  (How-to),
G - Gifts that are revealed

TUESDAY DRIVE: Tuesday 4 pm - 6 pm

Jazz has called the Sunny Coast his home for almost over 10 years, moving up with his family from the Northern Beaches of Sydney when he was in primary school.  Ever since, he developed an immense passion for music, beginning with learning the drums.  Whether playing on the opera house stage, in a pit orchestra, or in the studio… Jazz has loved every second of it!

At 17 years old, he is currently finishing his final year of school, making him the youngest presenter at NOOSA FM.

This is Jazz’s first year at Noosa FM, and he has a lot planned!  His current Program, “Young Blood”, explores Australia’s young musicians & what they listen to.  Specifically promoting the unheard local (often school-age) talent the sunshine coast has to offer. 

He provides an insight into the sounds of the future.

ODORAMA: Wednesday 8 pm - 10 pm
UNCLE STANLY'S SUNDAY BLOOMERS: Sunday 8 pm - 10 pm

Raised in country towns, schooled in institutions best known for headlines in Royal Commissions, employed in far too many professions and for an array of unfortunately haunting employers, I'm often trying to remember if my various stints as a keyboard-playing arranger/musicologist/musician might offer some perceive relevant to the development of radio playlists. The jury's still out.

I like a good tune, an interesting rhythm, wonder what might have happened to Western music if J.S. Bach had been introduced to African music, but still manage to find something to like about a diverse lot of music in each of the world's six continents.

As the barriers between genres of music grow more transparent and musicians (and composers and producers) moving between and conjoin styles, I'm especially enamored of music that betrays its initial provenance to embrace the costume, manners, and sensibilities of far-flung relatives and in-laws. I like the multi-generational, multi-cultural, multi-taxonomic, miscellaneous approach to musical scripts.

They say that everything that rises must converge. So I knit beanies and wait for a sign.

ROB ROGERS AFTERNOON SHOW: Tuesday 12 pm - 2 pm

I have recorded over a dozen CD's for different clients in my studio and I'm also the  Noosa FM production coordinator.

I originally started at Noosa FM in 2004 and in that time completed a Cert 3 in radio and media law.

Following a long break from radio,  I'm now back and fired up, so crank up the volume and let's get ready to rumble.

WORDS @ PLAY: Sunday 12 pm - 2 pm

Growing up on a sugar-cane farm on the Maroochy River, I am a proud born-n-bred Sunny Coaster! My 30-plus-year career as a journalist allowed the ‘curious me’ to ask many questions and write many positive stories. I worked in London for the Fleet Street newspapers in the late 80s, worked for Asia-Pacific region publications and spent many years as a journo and editor here on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane.

For 14 years I was one of the volunteer organisers of the Yandina Street Fair and am proud to say that I built the performance stages from two to five during those years, booking many regional musos and, for many young bands or solo performers, our event was the first time they had ever performed in public.

I started the Sunshine Coast International Readers and Writers Festival in 2016, the Sunshine Coast Poetry Slam Championships in 2017 (as part of Queensland Poetry Festival) and the regular fortnightly Words@play open-mic poetry nights in 2018. I have now passed these great events on to new custodians who will do them proud.

I also have a passion for amateur theatre and have acted, directed, written, stage managed, painted sets, made cups of tea, set up tables and ushered punters in for decades.

Growing up on the cane farm, my folks only had Gilbert and Sullivan records – and Reader’s Digest collections. Then young Uncle Geoff came to visit and left his modern album by a band called The Seekers. What a mind changer! Even though my Dad, Bill, was a gifted piano player in his youth, we never had musical instruments in the house until I was 13 and finally got the guitar I had sulked about for a good six months. The very month that I left for university, my mum, Beryl, was excited to get delivery of a piano – and she promptly signed up for lessons. As a sole parent, I grew my boys (now amazing young men) with a house full of instruments – guitars, a pink ukulele, a really cool drum kit (with my grandma’s feather pillow stuffed inside the big drum), a keyboard and heaps of percussion stuff.

I wrote my first poem when I was four, according to family folklore, and was first published in The Sunday-Mail when I was 10 with my poem called “The Eremite”.

So I love writing, I love stories, I love music and lyrics and I love promoting our regional writers – especially our young ones. I too, have many stories to tell having interviewed hundreds of regional characters over the years and I would love to share these local history tidbits with you.

My “Words at Play with Wendyoh” show profiles regional singer-songwriters, performance poets, authors and scriptwriters plus info on great events and gigs across this region. So tune in to Words at Play with Wendyoh – because words - sing!

IN THE BUBBLE: Tuesday 6 pm - 8 pm

Hi! I am Charlie, aka Lisa Charlwood.

A Queenslander, born and raised. My love for music, theatre and dance stems back to when I was a little girl participating in dance for most of my childhood. In my late teens my Mother and I belonged to the local amateur theatre group in Beenliegh where we both performed in many Musicals and Plays.

In 2010 I decided to move my four little cubs and myself to the Sunny Coast to be closer to my immediate family, and start a fresh.

It was only months later I discovered the Peregian Originals and it is this little hotspot in the park where I found a network of like-minded friends. From this moment onward, the love of local music, venues and artists began to rapidly escalate.  

Fast forward to present day… and closet dream finally coming into fruition – Now a Presenter on Local Community Radio. NOOSA FM!

My mission as a Presenter for NOOSA FM 101.3 is to share some of our local and global new talent, banter, and take the music and tune of the theme, one program at a time, allowing for expansion and limiting restrictions…

I look forward to growing as a new part of the NOOSA FM family, and sharing with my local and global community of like-minded listeners.

TUESDAY BREAKFAST: Tuesday 6 am - 9am
FRIDAY DRIVE: Friday 4 pm - 6 pm

He will play some of the best of classic alternative songs that you grew up with. From The Sex Pistols to Duran Duran & everything in between.

THURSDAY BREAKFAST: Thursday 7 am - 9 am

Hi all, I grew up in Melbourne where I lived until I was about 28, when I took off to a Down to Earth festival on the Vic/NSW border and never went back.  I spent 15 years in Nimbin where I first discovered community radio as a work for the dole commitment, re-inventing new skills I could gain to be allowed to keep doing it. (yes for 15 years) I was a big part of getting them their permanent licence, as well as being on air and involved in production. Almost everything was CD’s and minidiscs back then. Oh, the stories I could tell; but won’t.

Fast forward to Noosa Community Radio (which it was called then), where I was first refused as a Centrelink participant, then got involved anyway, becoming a presenter, producer, trainer, vice-president, semi-techie, web master and mister fix-it man. Later I was a paid supervisor. I jumped in to the world of sound editing software with a lot of help from Sheng Yee, our techie at the time and Harry Miller, both enduring and selfless heroes to the station. I have a passion for local, social and political affairs and delight in finding songs with lyrics to fit my stories.

MONDAY BREAKFAST: Monday 6 am - 9 am
FRIDAY BREAKFAST: Friday 6 am - 9 am

I was first involved with NOOSA FM in 2012, hosting a weekly Drive show and a Sunday night program called "The James McKay Show"
I left at the end of that year after being lucky enough to score a Commercial Radio gig. I ended up working in Commercial Radio as an announcer for 5 years before returning to NOOSA FM in 2018 to host several new versions of  'The James McKay Show' this time as an late night show, evening show and a Morning show. Random schedule I know right? it's been great though. It's feel like I've come home. I love Noosa FM. It's an amazing station and gave me my start in the radio industry and keeps me active in the industry all these years later. Geez I sound like an old timer now hey?

I'm currently hosting "Breakfast with James McKay" on Monday & Friday 6 am - 9 am
We've got Top 40 and Classic hits. Plus we have some Funny conversations, call topics, pop culture talk, social media fun. You can join in the conversation. We want you to be part of the show

Between 6 am and 7 am is Tradies request hour! So if you're driving to work and want to request a song give me a call anytime on 544 722 33 or send a text to 0451 543 161

Tune in and check it out - it's a whole lot of fun! Follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at The James McKay Show

RADIO ACTIVE: Friday 6 pm - 8 pm

Debriś has been an alternate music fan and has spent a great deal of time in Melbourne since the 80’s seeing live bands and watching their influence on the new bands of today both locally and globally. You will hear music from the influencers and those they in turn influenced.

You will hear new and old music from punk through to electronica, grunge, funk and rock. You will also hear new music from Melbourne’s amazing live music scene.

So don’t spend your half life alone, tune in to 'RadioActive' every Friday night, 6 - 8pm
and get carbon dated with #loca_lola and #debris_everywhere on NOOSA FM 101.3.

THE RAP WITH BEAR: Saturday 12 pm - 3 pm

My career path has been long and varied from being an Automotive Engineer to a military bandsman in the armed services.

I relocated to Noosa from Melbourne in the mid 70's and apart from some time spent in the USA. I was also to later take up a job offer with KLONG FM in Long Beach California to promote the upcoming America’s Cup Challenge in Fremantle Western Australia. But that's another story.
 
During my time on the Sunshine Coast I established an entertainment and employment agency providing entertainment to various venues up and down the coast. This included the management of live bands, solo artists and also the establishment of a mobile disco service. These services evolved into a retail outlet providing musicians with their necessary requirements.
 
It was during that latter period (1984-85) that I became involved with local Sunshine Coast radio. First up with an album review and interview show on 4NA Nambour and then with 4GY Gympie. The takeover of 4GY by Westco Communications  led to the establishment of a studio and sales office in Noosa Junction to which I was appointed sales manager.

I also became involved with the Tourism Association which led to me  volunteering as a broadcaster with the local community radio 2CBD FM (Community Broadcast Deepwater (NSW), where for a short time take on the position of vice president which gained me a wealth of knowledge with regard to community radio stations.
 
In 2016 my wife and I moved back to Noosa where I joined the NOOSA FM team.

THE CAPTAIN'S BLEEDIN' BRAIN MUSIC: Friday 8 pm - 10 pm

With it's origins in Punk, this show highlights alternative and independent music from the 70s, 80s and 90s, including a selection of current releases.

If you like commercial music, this show is not for you. Most songs may contain confronting subject matter. You will hear artists such as GG Allin, Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave and Cosmic Psychos etc.

These shows will also promote, lets' say, a diverse selection of local talent along with some interesting interviews and commentary coming your way.

ULTRA CULCHA: Friday 9 am – 12 pm

With a father who was trumpeter & a radio twiddler (and an expert at playing the spoons and the comb). And a Grandmother who was an opera singer and swing time piano player at the local village pub there was no other direction for me to follow but music and theatre.

As a child I would sit with my father in his workshop and we would play with his old bakerlite radio which had short wave on it and we could listen to radio from all over the world. I thought it amazing as a 12 year old that we could hear live music being played from thousands of miles away through the power of the air waves. This began my love of radio.

I became involved in community radio when I moved to the Blue Mountains in the early 90’s and was involved in the station for many years. I presented “Berrocka Brunch” every Saturday for a decade and I loved every note of it. This led me into community festivals and other wonderful performing genres that live on the edge of the arts sphere.

THE WAVE: From late til light 7 nights a week:
SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY: Saturday 6 pm - 10 pm
SUNDAY: NFM X-COUNTRY: Sunday 10 am - Noon

Music from the tranny to the sound cloud is the selection on THE WAVE, the new revamped NOOSA FM overnight program. Much has changed technically over the years but the one beautiful constant in everyone's lives remains - the magic of music. THE WAVE is blended to evoke the senses of your wonderful memories; the sights, sounds, scents and feelings of your very personal space in time. Music is constantly being updated and refreshed. You'll hear recent releases from old favourites and our world class Sunshine Coast artists and bands; another very important community objective of THE WAVE.

Most of my working life was spent promoting the visual arts by day and the performing arts at night and weekends. A love for community radio grew from several years as an on-air presenter and producer on Perth radio. Now I have the best job in the world; caring for the extensive music library at NOOSA FM, built and maintained by the dedicated volunteers at the station since its inception.

I'm privileged and proud to extend the commitment to good music, variety and entertainment from our very talented day/night presenters into the wee small hours and hope you'll join us on THE WAVE, all night, every night on your wavelength 101.3.

Vicki

library@noosafm.org

WEDNESDAY DRIVE: Wednesday 4 pm - 6 pm

I have been a resident of Noosa since 2012 and my passion is music of all genres. After growing up with the music of the 60s I have moved though the ages of rock and pop  and particularly a  love of Aussie music.  So after many years of enjoying great music though all mediums including live concerts I am now able to share my experiences with the Noosa Community on NOOSA FM.

This is my third year at NOOSA FM and I have been lucky to have been able to present in various programs throughout this time including Breakfast mornings and afternoons.

So please join me every Wednesday from 4 - 6pm for 'Wednesday Drive'.  A great mix of smooth grooves and popular music news and events and traffic reports to get you home safe.

And then a little later in the even why not join me again for a great selection of 'World Music Collection' from 8 - 10pm.

PET-PURRI: Wednesday 2 pm - 4 pm

"What would our world be without animals and pets? Thank God for them."

I have been with NOOSA FM since early 2016, starting at reception getting to know our Community Station's ins and outs and all the great people. In May 2017, I undertook at 3 months training to became a presenter with NOOSA FM.

With Pet-Purri, I bring you great music, and of course, we talk dogs and all things pet. Dogs are a big part of our society and in our families and homes. Whether as companion, servicing as assistant dog for special needs persons, for sick or lonely people, as rescue, guarding or sniffer dogs. There is so many areas where we employ dogs nowadays. No other being has put up with us for so many thousands of years developing relentlessly into servicing our requirements.

I like to bring community issues around dogs to our attention as well as introducing breeds, handling, feeding and exercising our loyal friends.

There are many community based charities and organizations that care about dogs and their owners, my program introduces them to you and will keep you up-to-date with their doings.  And of course, I will talk about cats, birds and other animals, our dogs friends in our homes and environment.

Lost your pet? Call us and I'm sure we can help...
 
Write to me about your pet by sending an email to reception@noosafm.org. I am looking forward hearing from you and all about your pets.

NIGHT SURF: Thursday 8 pm - 10 pm

A fierce, non-genre-denominational lover of music, Gerald has been “Night Surfing” for 12 years, previously at 3MFM South Gippsland, Victoria and now since February 2017 here on the Sunshine Coast at NOOSA FM 101.3 on Thursdays from 8 - 10 pm.
 
“This must be Thursday," said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

METAL NIGHTS: Monday 8 pm - 10 pm

Having been around music his whole life, Brian's introduction into radio stemmed from his interest in music from a young age.  His first ever concert was Deep purple, supported by Billy Thorpe an The Aztecs and since then it has cemented his love for music and live concerts. This life long passion has inspired him to pursue a career in the Radio presenting world.

As of February 2017, Brian's journey into Radio kicked off with his inaugural radio program - 'Metal nights with Brian'. You will hear the latest news, current gigs and concerts, classic albums as well as a broad selection music from the Metal community.

One aim high on Brian's list is to attempt to break the stigma that is attached to the genre of Heavy metal, and show the broader community that there is a lot of under recognised talent out there.

NOOSA ACTIVE: Tuesday 9 am - 12 pm

Noosa is the best place in the world and it is hard to beat playing some good music on the radio here.

I’ve been a visitor to Noosa since before I could walk so moving here permanently a few years ago was the only sensible thing to do.

I have always had an interest in music and the media so when the chance came up to do the presenters course I jumped at it.

My other interests include cycling, swimming, triathlon, surfing and travel.

MONDAY DRIVE: Monday 4 pm - 6 pm
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​Born in Munich, Germany, I have lived in Sydney for 55 years before moving to Noosaville in 2015 with my wife to be near family.

I have been retired from the Graphic Arts/Printing Industry for some years now.
My lifelong love of music, in particular Blues and Jazz, prompted me to undergo the Presenter’s Course at NOOSA FM.

My lack of any great talent as a musician (I do dabble in guitar!) allows me to at least play and share my vast collection of CDs with an audience (I hope).
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My show consists of Jazz, Blues, Rock, Soul and R&B, although not necessarily restricted to those genres in a pure sense.

JUST ROCK ON: Thursday 6 pm - 8 pm

Growing up in a multicultural environment and living 500 metres from the EMI Recording Studio in Brookvale NSW, I was lucky enough to have the interesting company over a milk shake at the local milk bar. Rock, Pop, Blues, Folk, Opera, every type of artist was there. My twin brothers and I started a band when we were teenagers called ‘Milk Shake’ doing covers.
 
Music has always been a part of my life. My father could pick up and follow like a pro with any instrument. One day he shook the house with a great blues track by Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. That’s when I feel in love with the Blues & Roots.

From 1994 till 2006 I was a member of NOOSA FM; from 1996 till 2006. During that time became a Cert III Tutor for NOOSA FM & CBAA. At the same time I was working in the Education Dept of Queensland as a school counsellor as Behavioural Consultant. During that time I had the pleasure of introducing ‘school radio’ to four high schools on the Sunshine Coast. Bringing the music to the community and sharing the classics and ground breaking songs.

Promoting Australian artists with live interviews with a mix of sassy electric thrilling slicks, horn and string bends with the finesse of a woman’s touch.

I have an ‘open door policy’ on my program to all musical artists, so tune in and enjoy.