A first for Sombrero Fallout – a guest host!
I invited Dave O’Neil to guest host an episode of SF recently. With all his years’ experience behind a mike, Dave was, as ever, the consummate professional. We covered Madness and Motors, Sunnyboys and Specials, comedy and Captain Cocoa, scouting and Spicks & Specks. And much else besides.
Dave needs no introduction – to Australian listeners. However our overseas audience might appreciate some Dave facts.
Dave grew up in Mitcham, east Melbourne, where he was a boyhood scout and his father Kevin still runs a group. After finishing high school, Dave completed a course in primary school teaching - however, he never taught. He became a field officer for the Red Cross giving talks and training sessions, where he first enjoyed public speaking and the opportunity to tell jokes.
In the late 1980s, he was a member of the band Captain Cocoa, in which he played bass. Identical twin brother Glenn was the lead vocalist. After he hung up his bass, he embarked upon a highly successful commercial radio career, appeared a record number of times on TV pop quiz show Spicks & Specks, appeared with Eric Bana in feature film The Nugget, and became one of Melbourne’s go-to stand-up comedians.
In 2017 Dave began a new podcast The Debrief. Each episode he drives a comedian home from a gig and discusses comedy and their career. Dave is currently working with Glenn Robbins (of Kath and Kim) on a podcast called Somehow Related.
We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and hope you do too. Here are the tracks chosen by Dave.
Tracklist:
So this is real, Sunnyboys
I hear motion, The Models
You’re wondering now, The Specials
Misery, Madness
Blue, Jayhawks
Is that you Cherry Trite?, Captain Cocoa
Into the white, Pixies
Anybody’s ghost, The National
Mr Motivator, Idles