MEET THE CREW
MANIE GROVE
The love of music, motorcycles, guitars and photography, together with those wonderful words from author Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love - sum up my approach to life. The joy of sharing music with friends on the airwaves is a huge privilege,
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DES HOLDCROFT
Des Holdcroft (aka The Night Owl) has been an avid music collector from a very early age, and has owner-run an immensely successful music retail outlet in Gauteng for many years. His uncanny ability to spot a hit in advance, resulted in several of the major record companies often consulting, and relying on his input for their marketing campaigns, and their compilation choices. Many of those compilations have resulted in Gold & Platinum sales figures. Des’s love, enthusiasm and passion for most genre’s of melodic music is ingrained in his DNA. Start talking to him and you will find that it is also very infectious. His biggest thrill is sharing that passion and knowledge with fellow music lovers. Catch the bug right here.
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CHRIS VENTER
It seems as though Chris was vaccinated with a phonograph needle as he has had music as a huge part of his life since he was a toddler. He uncle introduced him to the likes of Dean Martin and Nat King Cole and that was the start. LM radio was a huge influence on his life before he moved to the other side of the pond at the age of 12. The mid 70s American rock music scene was in full bloom with the likes of Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and the likes becoming his bands of choice. Chris has spent 35 years in the music industry with catalogue marketing/compilations becoming his forte along with 5 years experience as a presenter on a Gauteng based radio station. For the last 2 years he has indulged himself in his other interest, woodworking, and has kept himself busy with various projects. |
RUSTY HORNSBY
Ruston Hornsby aka Rusty happens to like Music.... from his earliest recollections of Jim Reeves, Chuck Berry, The Beatles and Rolling Stones and everything Bluesy and Jazzy....Oh!! I forgot Frank Zappa, Classic and Progressive Rock. His Radio Idols are Stan Katz, Rafe Lavine and the Late Phil Wright and David Blood respectively. Other interests are motor racing, reading and problem solving (excluding computers and cell phones). Rusty served his early radio years on another mixed up radio station. Here he mentored several like-minded radio junkies. His current music tastes stray into and across many genre's including local artists. You can expect to hear popular tracks as well as the unexpected from Rusty's Music Vault. Rusty will soon be based abroad, but the technophobe will continue to entertain Rockingcrew streamers and showcase excellent music. |
SETH ASCH
R.I.P. SETH ASCH
SETH SADLY PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2022 - A MINE OF KNOWLEDGE WENT WITH HIM - BUT HIS MEMORY WILL LIVE ON FOREVER.
REST IN PEACE, OLD FRIEND, GONE, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN...
Seth has enjoyed a varied career in the film industry and the music business, working as a sound engineer on many feature films in the U.K.and South Africa.
In between films, Seth worked as a director in a television studio for ten years and regards that experience as the most rewarding, inasmuch as
he played drums with many bands in the U.K. He regards his time playing with Tubby Hayes the most rewarding.
In South Africa, he played with many visiting artists but regards his time with Jeremy Lubbock the most exciting.
After achieving his goal of making a feature film and several documentaries for television, he started to play the vibraphone and formed a jazz quintet with John Davies and has appeared in a few theatrical concerts.
He regards doing this radio show as one of his dreams come true.
SETH SADLY PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2022 - A MINE OF KNOWLEDGE WENT WITH HIM - BUT HIS MEMORY WILL LIVE ON FOREVER.
REST IN PEACE, OLD FRIEND, GONE, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN...
Seth has enjoyed a varied career in the film industry and the music business, working as a sound engineer on many feature films in the U.K.and South Africa.
In between films, Seth worked as a director in a television studio for ten years and regards that experience as the most rewarding, inasmuch as
he played drums with many bands in the U.K. He regards his time playing with Tubby Hayes the most rewarding.
In South Africa, he played with many visiting artists but regards his time with Jeremy Lubbock the most exciting.
After achieving his goal of making a feature film and several documentaries for television, he started to play the vibraphone and formed a jazz quintet with John Davies and has appeared in a few theatrical concerts.
He regards doing this radio show as one of his dreams come true.
KEITH BURROWS
My interest in radio started back in 1979 when Capital 604 started broadcasting down in KZN. For the first time since we left England there was a radio station that played real music. A local radio station not governed by the then very conservative SABC.
Why do I do this? It’s quite simple really, I just love music. Maybe there’s a frustrated musician inside me wanting to get out. My whole life I have grown up with music, and I have my parents to thank for that. Where-ever I have lived there is always a radio on in the house, or music playing. So, what I attempt to do in my show is to simply share that love of music with the listeners. Again, thanks to my parents, my appreciation of music is not limited to any specific genre. Looking back, I have been through many musical phases in my life. In my early teens I was a Top 20 fan, then moved on to a more folk/acoustic phase. I then got into jazz big time. I used to spend all weekends at the various jazz clubs in and around Durban. I then moved into jazz fusion phase, listening to likes of Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and the like. Only much later in life did my appreciation of rock music really take off.
Consequently, during any show you could hear anything from Patsy Cline, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Al Jarreau, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and almost anything in between.
All I try to do is share my appreciation of music with the listeners, and at the same time have a whole heap of fun. Keeping in mind that radio is all about the listener.
My motto is to play
“Real Music, for Real people, on a Real Radio Station.”
My interest in radio started back in 1979 when Capital 604 started broadcasting down in KZN. For the first time since we left England there was a radio station that played real music. A local radio station not governed by the then very conservative SABC.
Why do I do this? It’s quite simple really, I just love music. Maybe there’s a frustrated musician inside me wanting to get out. My whole life I have grown up with music, and I have my parents to thank for that. Where-ever I have lived there is always a radio on in the house, or music playing. So, what I attempt to do in my show is to simply share that love of music with the listeners. Again, thanks to my parents, my appreciation of music is not limited to any specific genre. Looking back, I have been through many musical phases in my life. In my early teens I was a Top 20 fan, then moved on to a more folk/acoustic phase. I then got into jazz big time. I used to spend all weekends at the various jazz clubs in and around Durban. I then moved into jazz fusion phase, listening to likes of Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Chick Corea and the like. Only much later in life did my appreciation of rock music really take off.
Consequently, during any show you could hear anything from Patsy Cline, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Al Jarreau, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and almost anything in between.
All I try to do is share my appreciation of music with the listeners, and at the same time have a whole heap of fun. Keeping in mind that radio is all about the listener.
My motto is to play
“Real Music, for Real people, on a Real Radio Station.”
MICHAEL TYMVIOS
Michael aka “Turkey Man” Tymvios brings you to the Rock Roadhouse on Friday Night between 6 pm and 9 pm. He grew up in Johannesburg Suburbia in South Africa listening and bouncing to the sounds of the music scene in the 70s and 80s. He earned his keep as a teenager by djing by spinning the tunes with his mobile disco “Juke Box Junkies” and also djing at clubs as a resident such as “70’S Fever” in the late 90’ as well as also pursuing his ambitions in playing professional soccer. He later some- how in the midst of all the chaos of his enjoyment of the mandatory beer drinking as a student also managed to fit into his dizzy schedule a Commerce Degree and a Law Degree. He has surpassed all his own expectations in succumbing and becoming a “responsible adult” when practicing as a qualified attorney for the past 20 years and yet never losing his passion for radio and music when his ambitions were realised in 2010 when he joined as a radio presenter a popular local and mainstream community radio station in Johannesburg known as Mix 93.8 fm, a journey that lasted 10 years, specialising in Rock Music. Michael spent a year at Paul Rotherham’s Caxton Radio between 2020 and 2021 and a further in 2022 at Radio Today 1485. Michael has also over time developed a keen interest in hiking, scuba diving, reading, meditation, spiritualism, and the esoteric and he still today continues to play soccer every week with his mates as an old veteran. He also travels the world at every opportunity when experiencing other world cultures and their music.
Tony nortje - "aka the throwback!'
Tony brings a vast knowledge of music to www.rockingcrew.com, having been successfully hosting quizzes, team building and events for the past twenty years via his operation - Music Unlimited.
Tony is an avid Rolling Stones fan, he travels the world to attend their concerts - he is also the founder and President of the Rolling Stones Club of South Africa.
Do join the Rolling Stones South Africa Facebook page - and whilst on Facebook, join Rockingcrew page and group as well :-)
Tony hosts the "Throwback Hour" every Friday evening from 1700 - 1800, and again on a Sunday morning 1100 - 1200 - be prepared for a music fest!
Tony is an avid Rolling Stones fan, he travels the world to attend their concerts - he is also the founder and President of the Rolling Stones Club of South Africa.
Do join the Rolling Stones South Africa Facebook page - and whilst on Facebook, join Rockingcrew page and group as well :-)
Tony hosts the "Throwback Hour" every Friday evening from 1700 - 1800, and again on a Sunday morning 1100 - 1200 - be prepared for a music fest!