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Jamie McDonald is comedian born in the hard industrial city of Liverpool in the North of England.He was expelled from school at the age of thirteen for putting 250 ping pong balls in the pipe Organ for the graduation service in his local Church. Jamie was then sent to boarding school in the Isle of man.Jamie Started on stage in the eighties in working men's clubs . He spent a few years working around London at many venues including the comedy Store. He worked in France for 8 years and is one of the few “Pom's” that has worked as a comedy side kick on French radio stations. Jamie came to Australia in 1995 with nothing, and still has most of it left.He has been a regular feature in Melbourne clubs and on Champaign comedy. He has been a comedy writer for most of the major radio programs in Australia and writes regular features for magazines in Europe. Jamie worked as the producer of "The Cage" Breakfast program on Triple M , "Dead Set Legends" and hosted his own specialist music show on a Sunday Night between 2004 - 2007. Jamie is Currently Hosting a National Radio Program across Australia.

My Blog

JAMIES EUROPEAN VISIT 26 NOV - DEC 27 2008

Dear All I am currnetly in the UK and will be in Paris next weekend . I have packed my wife the kids and a bag full of Harmonica's . I am hoping for fun and adventure and of course plenty of Blues and...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:36:00 GMT

COUNTRY BLUES AND ROOTS FESTIVAL

Dear All I have a local venue interested in closing off a street for a couple of days. I have priced a mega PA and sound engineers. I would love to hear from bands who would like to play at the event...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:13:00 GMT

RADIO IN BRISBANE

Over the last four Years I have been producing breakfast shows at The ABC, Triple M and now 97.3 and 4KQ. Before that I was an on air announcer for 16 years working in Many different Australian and Eu...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:16:00 GMT

JAMIES NEW GIG

NEWS FROM RADIO WEB SITE -http://www.newmedia.com.au/Kym Ferguson from MRR's Talking Back The Night (soon to be married) is leaving the Gold Coast and returning home to WA on December 12. The new host...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:47:00 GMT

END OF AN ERA

Dear All After three years at the House of the M's my contract has come to an end and its time for me to sleep in rather than dragging myself to work at 2.30am. What's next you may ask ? Well at the m...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:24:00 GMT

MY LIFE IN RADIO

This Year Marks my 19th year of sitting in a room playing music and talking to myself ... Insanity .. No . Well not if you get paid for it . Over the years there has been 9 different radio stations in...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:18:00 GMT

LIFE

If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax; I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:10:00 GMT

LAST WEEKEND

Dear All I had an amazing experience this weekend just gone. Peters and Black (the Band*) Played at the Queensland Cancer Council Ball. It was a very humbling experience. The 300 Guests there were pe...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:52:00 GMT

Help with making my my space better

As a new myspacer I am trying to deck out my page with music and video. Can anyone give me tips on the best way to do this ? Keep it simple , I am not the sharpest knife in the draw Jamie
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:57:00 GMT

JAMIE’S ON LINE

This is my first go at doing a Blog ...... Bear with me here I have been in Australia for the last 12 years. I love the country,  but I can't understand why Aussies and me a question and then an...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:20:00 GMT