Music
Life in music
Choir, the anonymous Bleach cassette, Nirvana, bands, DJing, production and the harder electronic music that followed.
Media & culture
David Ruck: Radio, Television, Events & Music
This is the media and culture chapter index. Surreal, ALT TV, PulzarFM After Dark and the separate life-in-music story now have their own pages so each can keep growing without bloating a single timeline.
Reconstructed chronology
Media, events and music in sequence.
Dates marked c. are deliberately approximate. They are reconstructed from surviving public records and the sequence in my own account, and I will tighten them as earlier records surface.
Underground events
Surreal
From Nelson house parties to underground Christchurch rave events promoted through physical networks, flyers and word of mouth.
Television · Auckland
ALT TV / ALT After Dark
A chance meeting with presenter Jack at Compass Communications led to producing Friday and Saturday late-night television.
Radio · Christchurch
PulzarFM After Dark
Friday and Saturday late nights, a deliberately harder sound, live guest DJs and a fight over what the station’s real audience actually was.
Why these chapters connect
They were never separate interests.
Music led to DJing. DJing led to parties. Parties taught me audience-building. Sales work put me in the room with people who opened media doors. Media work overlapped with sales management and business turnarounds. The chronology makes much more sense when the chapters are linked rather than flattened into a conventional CV.
Also see: career chapter index →