Layne Mitchell
Weekday evenings from 3pm to 7pm
I told my high school guidance councilor that I wanted to be a “Rock Star” or a “Music Producer”. He laughed in my face. So I formulated a devious plan, which involved getting into radio to produce commercials during the day, all so that I could sneak into the studio at night and record my breakthrough demo with my band.
I took a 3 month broadcast program in Saskatchewan and somehow ended up on the air. I worked my way up from Prince Albert to Saskatoon, Rosetown to Swift Current. Once I grew tired of announcing bake sales and doing “The Five Day Agri-Weather Forecast Every Half Hour”, I made my way to a rock station in Fort McMurray. Like everyone else in the Fort, I was determined to “make my money and get out”. Except in this case, the money wasn’t very good. Luckily, I wasn’t even there very long. Soon I got a call to move to Victoria, BC and then eventually Edmonton.
I now have what I consider to be the world’s greatest job. I play the music I love, buy listeners’ affection with cool prizes and occasionally record parody songs in my basement… all this and I don’t have to live on a tour bus! Best of all, when bands come to town to play the Axe Music Listener Lounge, who do you think gets to produce the show? So to my high school guidance councilor, Mr. Redlich… BITE ME!!!
Likes:
-Squeezing blackheads
-Burning things with matches
-Playing "Name that Smell" with SONiC Music Director, Adam Thompson
-Bitching about Edmonton's transit system
-Christ Jesus
Dislikes:
-Anti-theft tags
-High-fives
-Salad Dressing (I hate all flavors, they all taste the same. Stop the charade!)
-Dust
-Pet people (not the animals... just the people)
Guilty Pleasures:
-Watching Scooby Doo
-Taking up multiple parking spaces (yup, I'm THAT guy) -Taking stuff apart to see how it works
Superpower:
-Guessing people's social status through the internet (You're reading this, let me guess, you have no life?)
