Bio
GUY PERRYMAN
Birth date 2/2/1965. Aquarius. Snake. Blood Type O+.
English, born in Scotland, raised in Singapore & Australia, lives in Japan.
Wins award at 3 for being “The Best Bad Boy” onboard ship Angelina Lauro sailing across the Indian Ocean. At 22 receives Australian FM Radio Award for innovative drive-time program City Express. Guy has always been a bit of a big mouth & sometimes his blabbing has paid off!!
Guy inherited his adventurous spirit from his grandparents – a prominent horse racing family in England & pioneering farmers in Africa. As a young child Guy discovered his creative & entrepreneurial streak through presenting home theatre shows, writing his own Smyle magazine, producing cassette “radio” shows, draughting maps to imagined cities & viewing life from backstage at theatre productions his parents were involved with.
Radio career begins at 16 with a training course at the Australian National University station 2XX. First solo radio program is a U2 special in 1982. At 18, the day after finishing college leaves home & starts work as freelance DJ & production assistant at Australia’s youth radio network 2JJJ in Sydney. 1985 Guy starts drive-time program City Express featuring new music, interviews & original comedy sketches on progressive station 2SER FM in Sydney. Acid-House culture explodes in 1987 & Guy creates Sydney’s first club DJ mix radio program MadHouse. Meanwhile his underground warehouse parties Star Chamber & cabaret lounge Dream Factory take off. Guy starts work as Virgin Megastore DJ in Sydney in 1988.
In 1990 brought to Japan as chief DJ for the launch of the first Virgin Megastore in Tokyo. Being the first ever in-store DJ in Japan establishes Guy as a prominent personality in the Tokyo entertainment & media scene & is soon hosting programs on various radio stations including J-Wave & Inter FM. From 1991 presents J-pop music channel on Virgin Atlantic Airways. Soon creates his own club events in Tokyo including the hugely popular UK Night at Milk during the 90’s Brit Pop boom, followed by Club Rocket techno events & Baby Powder lounge parties.
Virgin Megastores Japan continues to expand & by 1997 Guy is managing all DJ’s in over 30 stores & establishes Virgin Mega Station nationwide cable radio network. Assists with set up of Virgin chillout zones at Fuji Rock Festivals.
Frustrated by the lack of specialist music radio in Japan Guy forms the DJ collective radio:on in 1997. radio:on DJ’s create events & radio shows in Tokyo & soon establish radio:on cable radio channel plus open a combined radio studio & bar in the fashionable Aoyama district in central Tokyo from 2001-2003.
2001 Guy is offered exceptional radio job – the breakfast show on 76.1 Inter FM in Tokyo. Up 1st becomes one of the station’s highest rating shows & a highlight is broadcasting live from London for 1 week. 2003 Guy moves to the record breaking Monday-Friday 6 hour afternoon timeslot on Inter FM & establishes his position as Tokyo’s prominent interviewer with hundreds of interviews with a range of stars including Sting, Gwen Stefani, Nile Rogers, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Sir Paul Smith & many many more. 2007 Guy presents club & chillout late night programs Nightlife. 2008 the weekly Guy Perryman Show is broadcast across Japan on the FM Meganet radio network. In 2009 returns to daily prime time radio with Global Satellite on-air in Tokyo on Inter FM Monday-Friday 10am-3pm. Guy’s programs are broadcast annually from Fuji Rock & Summer Sonic music festivals.
Guy’s versatile voice is heard on an array of TV & radio commercials, product videos, animations & computer games. Has also produced radio programs for broadcast in the UK, Hong Kong & Australia.
Writes original manga story Tixii And His Tekno Gizmo, produces CD/book series Tokyo Pirate FM released in 1996-1997 & numerous music magazine columns from 1991 to the present.
Continually in demand as DJ/MC for launches & events for clients including the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo, Karl Lagerfeld, Dom Perignon, the British Embassy & Virgin Atlantic Airways. 2007-2008 creates a series of hugely successful events at the iconic 52nd floor space Mado Lounge in Roppongi Hills including Take Off, In Flight, Sky High, Sonic Boom & Presentific launch experience. From 2008 produces the annual UK themed event Jet Set UK.
Inspired by the world of airline imagery Guy coins the catchphrases “Supersonic Inspiration” & “First Class Entertainment With The Leading Edge” for the 2007 launch of www.guyperryman.com. The website hosts on-line radio programs & podcasts, promotes events & is home of the unique Guy Perryman Black Card Membership service. The flagship on-line radio programs are Jet Set UK -programs & events for UK music lovers in Japan & Tokyo Expresso - programs featuring quirky street reports from Japan to the world. Guy Perryman Black Card Members receive priority information & VIP access to various events & can only receive their membership card directly from Guy.
2008 Virgin Megastores in Japan are rebranded Tsutaya Stores & Guy continued to provide weekly programs broadcast to over 300 stores.
Another major step foreward in 2008 as Guy brings together the virtual & real worlds with the launch of Presentific - an interactive project of giving experiences as presents & sharing the experience at www.presentific.com.
Travel, music, culture & inspiring people are Guy’s great passions & he continues to explore all - through work & leisure. After a hard days work there is nothing better than a hard days play. But despite appearances Guy likes nothing more than to get in his jim jams & chill at home or get butt naked & get in water - a bath, a swimming pool, the sea, a spa or onsen. He also loves aeroplanes, bicycle riding, swimming, laughing, daydreaming, people with good manners, animals, chocolate, books, antiques, incense, black clothes, silver jewelry, onsen & jungles (the urban & natural)!!