Andrew G

I was born in London, and moved to Adelaide when I was four months old; had my first memory at six months; fell in love with music soon after; moved to Brisbane and joined a choir at five; wanted to be Gene Simmons at six; picked up a guitar at nine; fell in love with pop music at ten (when I first heard take 40 on the radio!); saw my first gig at eleven (it was Redgum, and Elton John a few months later); got my first electric guitar and started high school at twelve; went to music school and saw Bon Jovi's slippery When Wet tour at thirteen; started playing bass and joined my first real band at fourteen; played first real gigs at fifteen; started playing double bass, joined an orchestra and was in every school musical at sixteen; had high school rock fantasy moment, fell in love, lost virginity, had heart broken and didn't get into uni all at seventeen; became a touring roadie at 18; went to music school again at 19; was unemployed, joined another band called Feeble's Junky playing bass and gigged my arse off then got a gig at B105 in Brisbane at twenty; worked radio and played music at twenty-one; toured, released a CD and worked more radio at twenty-two; worked radio, released another CD, played double bass in another band called 'Resin Dogs' for a few months until they hired someone better than me (Chris was a bass hero of mine for years, he's really good), and Feeble's broke up at twenty-three; bought a theremin, worked overnight shift at B105 six days a week and took a month to go to Czech Republic with my Dad, quit B105 and hooked up with SAFM Adelaide at twenty-four; sent a video over and got a gig at Channel [v] so I moved to Sydney at twenty-five; learned to Snowboard at twenty-six; learned to surf at twenty-seven; went to Canada snowboarding at twenty-eight; played double bass in a country band, "Cryin' Skies" at twenty-nine; got a call from Barry Bissell and said yes to doing Take 40 and wrote this at thirty.