Initially it was purely an 80s music show, carrying on the good work of FADE TO GREY that had come before it. The name came from our co-host Jeff based on FAST (John Fastuca), LEAN (Jeff McLean) and INVINCIBLE (Dom Vinci). We all new each other from a previous community radio station that no longer exists and the chemistry that you hear now stems back to the early days and knowing each other over
such a long period of time. On Saturday 15th July 2000 two things happened. The only 80s music dropped and Jeff and Dom started adding their musical tastes to the banquet. There has been many, many segments over the years. So many in fact that they will have their own fact sheet. In August, local band Any Excuse came in the studio performing live. They were the first live act we had in the studio. Two years later one of their guitarists, Louise and John would become husband and wife. Being a three hour show provided us scope to try different segments as mentioned previously. One of these starting in April 2001, was to broadcast radio plays both locally produced and external ones. These included: Space Tics, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Captain Kremin, Red Dwarf and The Dag Squad. This eventually gave way to the classic album side. In this segment, we played an entire album side uninterrupted. The main criteria for this was it had to be an album side that you would listen to at home and never skip a song. There were many great albums but that’s a list and a discussion for another time. In another segment, “My favourite waste of time”, we would flush songs that were so bad and never play them again. We played Bros’ “When will I be famous”, that had fellow announcer Brad Ross ring in and recall a bad high school experience. As the saying goes, from little things big things grow and from that phone call in May 2001, Brad has been an irregular regular guest on FLI. Having a three hour show also enabled us to interview many guests over the years, see FLI guest list for more details. We have been very lucky and grateful to have had access to such a range of people and are always on the lookout for more opportunities to do so. This trend has continued up to today. Even when FLI became a two hour show from 10am to noon on Saturday 31st March 2012. We hope you have enjoyed this trip where we don’t need roads.
