Recently Deceased staff members of Festival Records

Many of our work colleagues have passed on. We remember the Festival work place for all the good times and great friendships we all created.
To see who is on our list please place your mouse over the Recently Deceased in the main menu then click on the person name.
If you would like to add your Festival deceased friends to my web site please make contact with me.

Contact Glenn Aird (DJ MAGOO)

I am always happy to talk with any of my colleagues from Festival Records from past years.
I was employed from 1986 until close in November 2001 at Festival Studio in Bulwara Road Pyrmont. I know I missed a lot of fun times that happened way before me, but i had many fun times while I was with the company and made many friends that worked in my previous years.
I wish to keep our memories alive of the Festival Records family during the good and bad times of this great Australian music company.
I am happy to come and visit you to document your memories and scan your photos to be shared on this website and/or at future Festival Records reunions.

This site is ready for all your fun photos, fantastic stories at the office, sales conferences, meet & greets, bbq's, sporting company matches, Christmas parties, on the road as a sales rep or dealings with artists local & international distributed by Festival Records.
This site takes many hours to collect & restore images and video. A small donation for the updating and running cost can be made by clicking here, a Go Fund Me account.

Make sure to update me with your current email if it has recently changed.

Looking forward to hearing from you all soon. Glenn Aird / DJ MAGOO (p) 0417488 657

Festival Records Pyrmont

A dedicated website for the celebration, collection of historical photos / video and communication of previous staff of Festival Records. 

This site will show previous reunions and upcoming events such as milestones of the company and reunions in the future. It will also update the list of deceased employees and funeral notices.

If you worked at Festival Records or Festival / Mushroom Records, please click here to create an account.

This site is run, built and controlled by Glenn Aird (AO Retro Music, DJ MAGOO & the Lobby Studio) a passionate and dedicated Festival Studio employee from 1986 - 2001. Barry Nagel and Bill Hoey employed me based on my youth at 16 years old, passion for Australian music, running my own DJ business at the time but most of all being able to program a VCR and microwave clock without reading the manual. I spent my time buying music, DJing & many Saturday mornings attending Sounds at Ch 7 when at school and this fed my hunger to be apart of the Australian music industry. Across my time at Festival I had numerous album & singles credits for radio edits, album edits, extended promo mixes for clubs DJ only and heaps of thank yous. I am credited on 2 x A.R.I.A. number 1 singles, countless Top 20 albums and singles plus an A.R.I.A. album of the Year.
I was ready for the new age of digital studio electronics and digital equipment in the world of music post production at Festival Records Pyrmont. I still have my own post production studio these days for analoge to digital transfers and can do anything in audio and video, check out the Lobby Studio for more details.

If you are an employee or artist that was signed or distributed from Festival Records over the years and wish to share your images and stories, I would love to hear from you, please contact me.
Celebrate the 65 Anniversary Festival Reunion Dinner of when it all began, have a meal and drink with the old team of workers in October 2017.

This site takes many hours to collect data, restore photographs and video, any help in adding content is encouraged.
Don't be affraid to call me i love to chat and hear your stories about the good old days at Festival & Mushroom records. 0417488657.

regards Glenn Aird.