Dylan Bird
Image credit: Andrew Watson, Semiconductor Media
Presents
The Grapevine
Putting local issues in a global context, including weekly insights into our cities, democracy, rights, culture, energy and environment.
Future Perfect
Talks and interviews spanning current affairs, politics, society, culture, and music. From the offbeat to the upbeat. The local to the global.
How did you first connect with Triple R?
Started listening to Breakfasters in my teens and gradually discovered a whole lot of other gems. I first walked in the door as a volunteer in 2012 to help with social media highlights and film gigs from the Performance Space.
What/when was your first show?
The Grapevine. I began as a program assistant back in 2012 and later moved behind the desk after learning the ropes on the Graveyard Shift. Little did I know then I’d be co-hosting the show with the excellent Kulja Coulston for the next decade!
What's your favourite Triple R story?
The tradition of invading the studio of a shell-shocked (but secretly excited) Dan Dare on How High the Moon for kick-ons after Triple R social events. Possibly the best radio produced at the station!
Describe your happy place?
The Triple R/PBS Megahertz changerooms at Victoria Park 5 mins before we run out for the Community Cup.
What does Triple R mean to you?
It epitomises community really, powered by passionate oddballs committed to making high-quality radio with character. A beacon in the media wasteland. Life would not be the same without it.
The studio door has accidentally jammed shut with you stuck inside. If there was only one CD in there with you what would you want it to be and why?
Probably Neil Young’s Live Rust, because I could reminisce about how it was my gateway to music as I contemplate my mortality.
As well as hosting Future Perfect, Dylan is a lecturer in journalism at RMIT University.
