Australian musician, and television and radio personality (born 1949)
Red Symons
Symons in 2011
Born
Redmond Symons
(1949-06-13) 13 June 1949 (age 74)
Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Alma mater
University of Melbourne
Occupations
Television personality
radio personality
musician
actor
Known for
Skyhooks
Hey Hey It's Saturday
Australia's Got Talent
The New Rocky Horror Show
ABC Breakfast Radio Host
Spouse
Elly Symons
(m. 1990, divorced)
Children
3
Musical career
Genres
Rock
Instrument(s)
Guitar and backing vocals
Years active
1970–present
Musical artist
Redmond Symons (born 13 June 1949[citation needed]) is an Australian musician and television and radio personality. He was the lead guitarist in the band Skyhooks, the snide judge of 'Red Faces' (a segment of the long-running variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday) and a judge on talent search show Australia's Got Talent. He hosted ABC Radio Melbourne's breakfast show from 2003[1] until 2017.
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June 2017, Symons interviewed fellow ABC radio presenter Beverley Wang about her new podcast, It's Not a Race. During the interview, Symons asked Wang...
Scott (later Frankie J Holden), Christopher Kirby as Rocky Horror, and RedSymons as The Narrator. Nigel Triffitt's interpretation of the musical was revived...
Symons is a surname which may refer to: A. J. A. Symons (1900–1941), English author Arthur Symons (1865–1945), English poet Elaine Symons (born 1974)...
Christopher Mayer as David Wilbur Wilde as Bikie Des 'Animal' McKenna as Bikie RedSymons as Bikie Reg Gorman as Scott "Australian Productions Top $175 million"...
In August 1958, the family travelled to Australia on the same ship as RedSymons, who also became a prominent musician in Australia. The boys finally changed...
judge on the Seven Network talent show Australia's Got Talent along with RedSymons and Tom Burlinson. It was after this series that Minogue was offered the...
migration scheme from Southampton on the ship Fairsea. Also aboard was RedSymons, future guitarist of Skyhooks, as well as Kylie Minogue's parents. The...
themselves or characters. Early cameos included former Skyhooks musician RedSymons, Warwick Capper, Molly Meldrum, Chris Lowe of Pet Shop Boys, and Clive...
alongside Macainsh, Strauks and Bob "Bongo" Starkie (ex–Mary Jane Union) and RedSymons (ex-Scumbag), both on guitars. Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane described...
McFadden became one of the new judges on Australia's Got Talent replacing RedSymons alongside Kyle Sandilands who replaced Tom Burlinson and Dannii Minogue...
Globos had two top 30 hits in Australia, both of which were produced by RedSymons. Trevorrow left the project in 1984 to pursue a comedy career as Bob Downe...
Shehadie Rocky Chris Franklin Dazza Kristine Stanley The Crying Lady RedSymons Northern Territory Customs Officer Krista Vendy Green Peace Secretary...
two Ten Pound Poms; her mother was on the same boat as the Gibbs and RedSymons. Businessman Alan Bond moved to Australia with his parents in 1950. He...
co-host of Breakfast with Jacinta Parsons on ABC Radio Melbourne, replacing RedSymons. In April 2019, as part of ABC RN's Earshot program, Shah presented Shutup:...
mates, Split Enz. Symons left after the tour and McLennan, who had hepatitis in May, was then replaced by Freddie Strauks (Symons' bandmate from Skyhooks)...
three years Burlinson was a judge on Australia's Got Talent alongside RedSymons and Dannii Minogue. In 2010, he played a featured role in the movie The...
It was the first album to feature Bob Spencer, who replaced guitarist RedSymons in early 1977. Spencer had played in Sydney rock band Finch and would...
Andy and RedSymons. During Split Enz's performance of "I See Red", RedSymons walked across the stage, so vocalist Tim Finn literally did "see Red" The MCG...
TV's worst ever game shows. An Australian version of the show starring RedSymons ran between 11 February to 5 April 2002 on the Nine Network. If, in the...
commentator. For several years, Keenan was a regular every Friday with RedSymons on 774 ABC Melbourne providing footy and racing tips. Keenan was ruck...
Association and a member of the Guild of Health Writers. Symons has a daughter called Lydia (b.1995.) Symons received Cancer Research UK's "National Communicator"...
to make a guest appearance in the show was former Skyhooks band member RedSymons. He made his on-screen debut ten days after the series began in March...