About The Moose
The best thing about Rock Radio is… I can actually act like a male is intended to act.
How did I get here?
How I ended up at 106.1 Rock Radio is really a convaluted tale of triumph over tragedy. The best way to tell the story is from when I came to the UK in 1996. Following a drunken converstion with a Russian sailor in a Canadian pub I began the smuggling of illegal beaver pelts and moose knuckles into the UK. When the Custom and Excise full cavity searches began to lose their allure I knew it was time for a vocational change.
Down to my last pound and living in a KFC dumpster I happened to pick up a copy of Talentless Git Monthly and that was to change my life forever. I responded to an ad looking for male models. I was very nervous but had nothing to lose so, even though I had never done anything like that before, decided to go to the audition at a sleazy studio in Soho. Within minutes of being there I knew I had found my calling. It was strange as I never considered myself to be model material but as soon as the lens was pointed at me my inhibitions disappeared and wasn’t afraid to expose myself. So, quite literally, one thing quickly led to another and in a matter of months I became one of the top sock models in the UK. The next few years were a blur...off to exotic location for high fashion sock shoots...Middleborough....Cleethorpes....the toilet in Beverley Hills...and the world was my oyster. If you want to see some of my work you can still find it to this day on www.makesurethedrapesarefirmlyshut.com Tragically, as I was spreading my wings and finding the butterfly inside I contracted a nasty case of shin zits and the work dried up. One day I was doing cashmere sock shoots in Milan and the next I was consigned to modelling tube socks for the Wilkinsons catalogue. I was devastated.
Luckily, fate was to intervene. I was doing a tartan sock perfomance on the catwalk at the Dumfries car boot sale and people started asking me about my unusual attire. I mentioned it looked like the same tartan worn by Angus Young at an AC/DC concert in Winnipeg in the early 80’s. Luckily, the programme controller of Rock Radio was in the crowd and felt my one piece of anecdotal rock trivia qualified me for a future at 106.1 Rock Radio.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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