Just caught the Canadian radio show and what a testimonial from the guy. So I googled him, this John Donabie fellah, and he sure is a music heavyweight with a string of top notch interviews on radio including our very own John Lennon. A hall of famer in Canada, the fellah knows his stuff and to go so overboard on our RoseAnn augurs well. Tremendous stuff. Well done, Timbo, for pushing this girl forward the way you have. It should be an inspiration to us all.
At last - someone's finally picked up on the weight and value of this radio presenter's opinion. Well in VBG.
John Donabie is without doubt a class act. His pedigree is unquestionable but it's a listen to his presentation that provides the proof of his class.
Maybe it's the initials JD make him born to be a DJ but whatever it is he's way above the level of anything we have in this neck of the woods. The depth and extent of his knowledge and insight into the music along with his raw passion for it, is simply fucking ridiculous. As you listen to his presentation unfolding you do wonder where he stores all the gen.
Obviously it goes without saying that he's tickled my own fancy with his eulogising about RoseAnn but that's got nowt to do with me singing his praises. But just on that score - what a tremendous testimonial for RoseAnn as VBG says. It really counts for something very special for someone like John Donabie to lavish so much praise on an entirely new and unknown artist such as RoseAnn and feature them so prominently on a renowned show such as his. Not just because he's probably forgotten more about music than all of us put together on here could possibly know. But because he's clearly someone who is not a slave to what has gone before. Rather someone who simply lives and breathes the music past, present and future.
God knows where the next John Donabie will come from?
Our very own Neil Atkinson perhaps? - another who seems to live and breathe the stuff he loves - whether footy or music. And can deliver that passion over the airwaves in a way that so few are blessed with the gifts to do so. No doubt they're extremely rare animals these sort of guys!
So, there you go - over to you Neil mate!
