Bruce Milne (born 1957) is an Australian radio presenter and music journalist. He co-founded

Au-Go-Go Records Au Go Go Records is the name of a Melbourne, Australia based independent record label. It was founded by Bruce Milne and Philip Morland from a house in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979 and was later operated by Greta Moon. The label start ...

and the

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magazine ''Fast Forward'', and was owner of

The Tote Hotel The Tote is a hotel, pub, bar, and live music venue located in Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia. The venue hosts many independent local, Australian and international acts, and carries a reputation for showcasing new and emerging independent m ...

Career

Milne began his career in the 1970s hosting music programs on Swinburne Tech radio,

3CR Melbourne 3CR is a community radio station that broadcasts on the AM band and on the digital spectrum as 3CR Digital in Melbourne, Australia. It features mainly talk-based programs with political (particularly trade unions) and environmental themes, as w ...

, and community radio station

3RRR 3RRR (pronounced "Three Triple R", or simply "Triple R") is an Australian community radio station, based in Melbourne. 3RRR first commenced broadcasting in 1976 from the studios of 3ST, the student radio station of the Royal Melbourne Institut ...

. He co-founded ''Pulp'', a

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fanzine created with

Clinton Walker Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music. He is known for his books ''Highway to Hell'' (1994; a biography of Bon Scott), ''Buried Country'' (2000; also a film and soundtrack album), ''History is Made a ...

in 1977, and went onto edit ''

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'', another music magazine which launched in March 1978. Milne left the magazine as it didn't make enough money and began working for Missing Link Records. Between November 1978 - October 1982 he co-edited the audio cassette magazine ''Fast Forward'' with co-founder Andrew Maine. Described as a tape-recorded radio show, it was distributed overseas by Rough Trade but ended after its two founders fell out. The magazine has since been digitised and is hosted by

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. In 1979 Milne co-founded Au-Go-Go Records with Philip Morland, which later expanded into their own record store. The label developed a relationship with

Sub Pop Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman. Sub Pop achieved fame in the early 1990s for signing Seattle bands such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney, central players in the grunge movement. They are often ...

and released their artists like

Sonic Youth Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the b ...

thanks to Sub Pop founder

Bruce Pavitt Bruce S. Pavitt (born March 7, 1959) is the Chicago-born co-founder of independent record label Sub Pop. He attended Evergreen State College where he hosted a show on Evergreen's KAOS radio station before founding Sub Pop. History After briefly ...

previously contributing music to ''Fast Forward'' During the 1980s Milne worked with

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in their

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(A&R) division, before starting Reliant Records through

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. In 1999 he was appointed the

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

A&R executive for EMI Australia, and later co-founded

In-Fidelity Recordings In-Fidelity Recordings is a record label founded in September 2002 by Bruce Milne and Steven Stavrakis. Bruce Milne established the Au Go Go label and Stavrakis was co-founder of Waterfront Records and Fellaheen. Between them they have worke ...

with Steve Stavrakis in 2002. In the 2000s Milne returned to working at Greville Records in

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, where he had first worked during his 20s. In 2001 he became a silent partner of The Tote Hotel, and became owner in 2007 until its closure in 2010 which left him thousands of dollars in debt. He currently hosts ''Where Yo Is'' on 3RRR, and hosts bus tours about Melbourne's music history with

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and

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References

External links

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2020 video interview with Bruce Milne
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