A first for Sombrero Fallout – a guest host!
I invited Dave O’Neil to guest host an episode of SF recently. With all his years’ experience behind a mike, Dave was, as ever, the consummate professional. We covered Madness and Motors, Sunnyboys and Specials, comedy and Captain Cocoa, scouting and Spicks & Specks. And much else besides.
Dave needs no introduction – to Australian listeners. However our overseas audience might appreciate some Dave facts.
Dave grew up in Mitcham, east Melbourne, where he was a boyhood scout and his father Kevin still runs a group. After finishing high school, Dave completed a course in primary school teaching – however, he never taught. He became a field officer for the Red Cross giving talks and training sessions, where he first enjoyed public speaking and the opportunity to tell jokes.
In the late 1980s, he was a member of the band Captain Cocoa, in which he played bass. Identical twin brother Glenn was the lead vocalist. After he hung up his bass, he embarked upon a highly successful commercial radio career, appeared a record number of times on TV pop quiz show Spicks & Specks, appeared with Eric Bana in feature film The Nugget, and became one of Melbourne’s go-to stand-up comedians.
In 2017 Dave began a new podcast The Debrief. Each episode he drives a comedian home from a gig and discusses comedy and their career. Dave is currently working with Glenn Robbins (of Kath and Kim) on a podcast called Somehow Related.
We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and hope you do too. Here are the tracks chosen by Dave.
