HENRY O'DONOVAN
Sydney, Australia

Where do I start? I am an Irish broadcaster trapped in the greatest country in the world, Australia! I worked with Bob Gallico as a newsreader on the great Radio Nova in Ireland back in the eiighties. I had workled on many stations there until moving to OZ. A couple of years ago I started doing some voice work for Replay Radio in the UK, an online radio station. Before I knew it I was doing an hourly show for this fabulous station. |

Then I started being more particular, and created BondiTunes Seventies PLUS, all seventies music for an hour, aswell as my usual one hour show with music from many decades. I decided to create a chat show, where I could interview other people around the world. I also decided that they should be able to interview singers and entertainers. We called this BondiTunes CHAT. It was one hour long - but not for long! It was going down so well, Replay Radio allowed me a second hour. So I recuited more of what I call 'correspondents'.

I also changed the name to BondiTunes Music and Chat. Now we have 15 correspondents all over the world. Our shows air on 7 radio stations, from New Zealand to Canada, and of course, Europe! I owe all this to Replay Radio who got me off my arse and back into Radio. We are not your typical radio show. We are more "liberal" shall I say? WE ARE FREE RADIO, and by free, I mean bullshit-free. There are too many stations out there tip-toeing over issues, controlled by men in suits, and advertisers. We don't have those restrictions. Our correspondents range from experienced broadcasters to people who have never been in front of a mic before. They are, to use an old-fashioned word, terrific! The show is rich in culture, music, frivolity, shame, and fun! So, enjoy!

KEN O'SULLIVAN
Ashbourne, Ireland

If I were to create a “Bucket List” of things I’d like to do/see/achieve before I shuffle off this mortal coil, I think I’d have a difficult job as I’ve been lucky enough in the first half century of my life to have at least sampled nearly all the things I’ve ever wanted to do. 

When I started in radio, for instance, it was always an ambition of mine to get on the radio in the USA. Did that when I visited New York in 1997 and was a guest on Adrian Flannelly’s excellent Irish radio show. And now, thanks to Bonditunes, my unique brand of BS is being spread around the world on the ol’ WWW. I’ve been lucky enough to have visited such diverse and exotic places as Hong Kong, Cape Town, Sydney and Fes (Morocco) through either work or holidays.

I’ve done a bit of television work too, including realising my ambition of reading the news on live TV whilst NOT wearing trousers – go on, it’s crossed your mind before about newsreaders, hasn’t it? Well I’ve done it! I’ve flown a helicopter, met the president of Ireland (twice), contributed two voice pieces for the BBC, actively participated in judging for the Eurovision Song Contest and been a regular visitor to Old Trafford, the home of my beloved Manchester United. I’ve met nearly all my heroes, climbed the second highest mountain in Ireland, interviewed some lovely people for the radio show and had stints as an opera singer and Shakespearean actor.

I’ve danced alongside Michael Flatley (thankfully, no record of my efforts exist), walked out onto the pitch at Lansdowne Road in front of 40,000 people and had the pleasure of being MC at the Cork Jazz Festival, introducing some of the biggest stars of jazz. I’ve had over 30 wonderful years doing the job I love most – being on the radio, hosting every kind of programme imaginable, revelling in the most fantastic music in the world and being told by people whose opinion matters that I’m not bad at it. And all this whilst being happily married to the lovely Imelda and raising two fine sons.

Not too shabby once I look back at it and I’m not finished yet.

RACHEL BRUNSDEN
Queensland, Australia

Rachel grew up in a theatrical and musical household and caught the acting bug very early in life. By the time she was 12 she was a professional child actor in theatre and television. She was approached by a commercial radio station in the late 90′s to host a 2 hour “chat” show with a fantastic co-host and the show lasted for a fun filled year. Rachel enjoyed the medium as it allowed her to go to work in her PJ’s and look like a train wreck if she so wished… Perhaps that is why she is BACK….behind the mic with her dear friend of many years Henry O’Donovan on the highly successful Bonditunes Chat. Henry has coaxed Rachel to leap out on her own after the success she has gained as part of the Bonditunes team…

NICK BARNES
Kent, United Kingdom

My name is Nick Barnes, I was born in 1962, I'm a singer, songwriter guitarist. Music has always been my love and passion.  My birthplace was The Isle of Sheppy, Kent, England.

I started playing guitar when I was 12 and have played in bands and as a solo musician since I was 16.

I did a BBC Children in Need fundraising appeal/TV show in the 80's with my own band. Two of the guitarists went on to play with Delametri and Lynndisfarne. 

Then I got married, hence no music recorded for a few years. On my first album The Last Train, I was really lucky to  work with Tommy Mandel of the Brian Adams Band.
Since then I have written and recorded two more albums, The Blacktop Road and Throwin Stones. Tommy has worked on all three albums with me.

I have also had some really great musicians work with me that can not be named due to contractual reasons. Most recently on the Throwin Stones album, I was lucky to work with Ian Cutler, the fiddle player from The Strawbs. All three albums are currently getting airplay worldwide, on various fm and internet stations.
All the DJ's that are playing my music are saying that it is being well received.

CALABASH FLASH
North Carolina , United States

While living in Northern Virginia, near Washington, DC, Flash was a Computer Systems Analyst for nearly his entire 30 year career with the Federal government.  For more than 10 years he played guitar and sang in the folk group at his local church.  Also during these years he began a side line as a mobile DJ.  He provided music primarily for teen dances, but also did adult dances, and, eventually, weddings.  For years, Flash worked at songwriting as a hobby.

Flash and his wife Babs moved to Calabash, NC in November 1994.  Almost immediately they got hooked on Carolina Beach Music and the Dance of the Carolinas called “The Shag”.  Flash got serious about his songwriting and singing and in September 1996, he released his debut CD single called "Shaggin’ In The Moonlight". (This song was rerecorded and updated and appears on his “Flash Flood” CD.) The song is his tribute to North Myrtle Beach, SC and was his introduction into the recorded music world.  Since then he has written or co-written and sung several songs that have appeared on six different compilation CDs primarily directed to the Carolina Beach Music market, even though some of his songs are really Adult Contemporary or even Country in style.  In 2002, he received a Carolina Beach Music Academy (CBMA) nomination for Songwriter of the Year for his song “One Track Mind”.  This song was on the Rhythm and Beach Top 40 Chart for forty two weeks, peaked at Number 5 for seven weeks, and finished at Number 18 for the entire year of 2002.  In 2008, his “Flash Flood” CD was nominated for a CBMA Solo Album of the Year.

Flash continues to write and record his own songs including some original Doo-Wop, Rock, Country, Funk, and light Jazz.  In July 2011, he began submitting short weekly segments on Introduction to Carolina Beach Music and Beach Music Artists to Henry O’Donovan’s Music and Chat Show on Bondi-Tunes.com. His goal is to spread the word about the artists and music he loves to new audiences around the world. Thanks to Bond-Tunes.com he can help reach that goal. LONG LIVE BEACH MUSIC!