BRIAN McKENZIE

Born, Brian Webb, in Dunoon in Ayrshire, Brian's family worked in farming but he found that agriculture held little appeal.

Offshore radio seemed far more interesting and, when Radio Scotland advertised for disc-jockeys, Brian was on the case. He applied for a job, was invited for an audition but, with no previous experience, he was turned down. He did not give up and three months later he tried again.

The second audition still was not good enough but Brian must have shown some promise because the Programme Controller suggested that he carried on sending him tapes and he would be happy to offer advice.

Eventually Brian passed the test and joined Radio Scotland in 1967 for the last five months that the station was on the air.

After the close-down he worked in clubs until October 1971 when he returned to sea with Radio Northsea International, using the new name

Brian McKenzie. He was sacked on October 24, 1972, but reinstated about 10 days later, on November 3rd and remained with Northsea until the station closed down in August 1974. During his spell with RNI, most DJ's acquired girls names as nicknames. Brian's was "Brenda".

After RNI, Brian managed a sauna-bath in London & then moved onto presenting discos at the Nova Park hotel in Zurich. He married Jean on October 10th. He eventually moved to Dublin. There he ran Bay City recording studios, in the building next door to Radio Nova, a station owned by Chris Cary (alias Spangles Muldoon). Brian was involved with Radio Nova, when in 1988, it became Britain's first satellite station, based out of Camber.

After working in radio in Ireland Brian and his wife thought working hard was a thing of the past and emigrated to Spain, where they are still living.