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Sammy Power
Hello ! My name is Sammy Power and I Am thrilled to be back on the Sunshine Coast to take up the drive show “Power and Pete” on Hot 91. I started my career on the sunshine coast and I pray to god no-one remembers any of my work from then!
I hope I have improved somewhat in the years since then… I have spent the last twenty years getting up at three am to do breakfast shifts in Brisbane, Perth , Melbourne, Newcastle, Gold Coast and over 12 years in Sydney.
It was a great relief when I threw my alarm clock into the Kawana Canal after Hot 91 offered me the drive show with my old friend Pete Timbs.
I met him when he just came out of the first big brother house 8 years ago and we have been friends ever since – in fact I was the mc at his wedding to the beautifull Camille in noosa at Christmas. (unfortunately,I cant remember my speech, but it must have been fruity cos they took the microphone off me)
I am an all or nothing person – so I am either hitting the town and partying up a storm or lying on the couch eating chocolates with one of my two forty kilo cats lying on my head.
Hot 91 is home to lots of great people and I think that comes across on the air, plus I LOVE the music. It is a dream come true to be here, working with one of my best friends (god he is annoying but) and I hope you enjoy our show as much as I love being back home on the Sunshine Coast.
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Peter Timbs
Born in Newcastle in 1972, Pete comes from a family of five kids, of which he is the oldest and the bossiest. Due to the exuberance and volume of his younger twin sisters, he is one of the only kids in Australia who actually asked their parents to send him to boarding school, where he spent six very peaceful years.
In his final year of boarding school he decided it would be more fun to take a year off before heading to uni, so he hopped on a plane and spent a very chilly 12 months showing the Canadians how to ride a skateboard and how to do back flip somersaults off the wharf in Englee, Newfoundland – yeah, that weird place from The Shipping News.
Upon returning to Australia, he studied for a bachelor of communications but the travel bug was still biting. To feed this craving, money was in order, so Pete tried many jobs, including Hotel porter, working in a crystal shop and even picking up dead bodies for the police. Fate stepped in though, in the form of a substantial insurance payout after a serious motorbike accident and Pete packed his bags and headed off to see the world.
Then it was all travel and work - doing everything from cooking in kitchens in Soho, working in the popular Lush shop in the King’s Road Chelsea, serving the likes of Robbie Williams, Madonna and Sir Bob Geldof to painting houses in Phoenix, Arizona. After spending all his savings he then headed back to Sydney but soon got itchy feet again and within a month moved to New Zealand with his then Kiwi girlfriend.
In NZ he worked bars and restaurants but soon discovered a love of wine. Pete decided to take up his studies again and completed a diploma in viticulture. Back in Australia, he moved to The Hunter region where he got a job in a winery before returning to Sydney to work in a boutique bottle shop. It was here that he applied for the first series of Big Brother. He proved to be an incredibly popular figure with the viewers and also quite a controversial one. (Who can forget the ‘dancing doona’ incident?).
After leaving the house he soon got a job with Sydney radio station Nova 96.9 as a street reporter and then received a call to come and join TV Week magazine as an entertainment reporter and senior writer for over five years. Along with that, in the past four years he has been co-hosting the pop culture chat show, The Know, on Foxtel music channel Max.
Pete has now started a new adventure, moving to The Sunshine Coast with his new wife, Camille and their daughter Matilda where he has taken a the role of drive time radio presenter for the very popular Hot 91, opposite his old friend, radio legend, Sammy Power.
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