Greig Pickhaver and John Doyle have become two of the most recognisable voices on Australian radio via their alter-egos HG Nelson and “Rampaging” Roy Slaven. But have you ever seen the duo together on the town, dining with friends or just hanging out together at a function?
Among the absolute plethora of their other material over the years has been This Sporting Life television off-shoot Club Buggery (1990s), and who will ever forget The Dream, a round-up show which aired on television after each day’s play during the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the Athens Games in 2004.
Pickhaver and John Doyle first met eons ago when they were both working for a television show for SBS, a kids' program. “We were playing the adults,” recalls Pickhaver. “There was a lot of hanging around. I’d already had some of the ideas we have going on now, but in another form. I thought: John would be a really interesting person to, if ever circumstances allowed, get together with and do something. As luck would have it, a little bit later circumstances did.
“To be quite honest, when we started, Triple J had no interest in sport. I’d been mucking around with these ideas with Triple R, a Melbourne station. I thought: Triple J might let us go till the end of the year, and early next year they’ll lose interest in us and we’ll have to find something else to do. Little did I know that 25 or 30 years later we’d still be doin’ it.
“That’s the real shock when you look back; that somehow we’ve always been able to find a new or different or changing audience.”
Don’t miss the four-page interview with Greig Pickhaver in the February 2018 edition of Inside Sport, on sale now.
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