Television
Chit Chat is the primary artist interviewer for pay TV music channel MAX. During his seven years with the channel, he has interviewed over 700 acts, including Oasis, The Who, Foo Fighters, Slash, Mumford and Sons, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Pink, Blondie, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Kylie Minogue, Noel Gallagher, Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz. He has been involved with the following programs: The Know, The MAX Sessions, MAX Masters (also wrote the theme), MAX Recommends (also wrote the theme), Take Five and various specials, including Sound Relief, the APRA Awards and twice hosting the St Kilda Festival and AMP Awards. Before the show ended in 2009, Chit Chat was, at five years, the longest serving presenter on The Know.
After the death of Crowded House drummer Paul Hester in 2005, Chit Chat took over hosting duties of The MAX Sessions. The show has twice been honoured with an ASTRA Award.
Chit Chat is the narrator and conducts all of the interviews for this MAX Masters, an ASTRA Award-winning monthly music documentary that focuses on an individual artist.
Chit Chat also served as host for the benefit shows WaveAid and Sound Relief, both of which won ASTRA Awards.
"Great Music Cities of the World" is an 8 part Documentary series researched and developed by Chit Chat from a title by Dorothy Markek. Over 18 months Chit Chat interviewed 210 artists on 3 continents. The series started airing in April 2012 and is now in constant repeat.
In Late Sept 2012 Chit Chat appeared on SBS's RocKwiz under his birth name of Glenn
Chit Chat is currently working on 3 new Documentaries about 3 unique Australian talents Midnight Oil, Cold Chisel and Mike Chapman. He is also developing a six-part series dedicated to "Musical Oddities".
Chit Chat features in a Max on-air promo for "Max Recommends", set in restaurant, in which he plays all parts, male and female. As the waiter, he says to two more of him sitting at one table, "..so have you fine looking gentlemen decided what you'll have?"
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—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
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—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)
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—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)