Glenn Easton Dormand,[1] also known as Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab, is an Australian songwriter, musician, record producer, remixer, TV presenter, radio announcer, podcaster and film director.
During his twelve years with the channel, he has interviewed over 800 acts, including Oasis, The Who, Foo Fighters, Slash, Mumford & Sons, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Pink, Blondie, Stevie Nicks, Lionel Richie, Kylie Minogue, Noel Gallagher, Marilyn Manson and Lenny Kravitz.
[citation needed] After the death of Crowded House drummer Paul Hester in 2005, Chit Chat took over hosting duties of The MAX Sessions.
Chit Chat was the narrator and conducted 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 and had viewing audiences of over 1.5m people.
Great Music Cities of the World is an 8-part documentary series researched and developed by Chit Chat from a title by Dorothy Markek.
[3] In 2000 Chit Chat composed the score for Academy Award winner Lizzy Gardiner's documentary on director Stephan Elliott, Killing Priscilla.
[6] Biraban and Threlkeld: the Third Space was nominated for the 2022 National Trust (NSW) Heritage awards in the "Education and Interpretation" category.
From the minor success of "Isaac or Fuzz" Machine Gun Fellatio became a live band and started working on their debut album Bring It On.
"Rollercoaster" Paging Mr Strike by Machine Gun Fellatio, Fake That Emotion Sad But True by Tex, Don and Charlie, "No Aphrodisiac" Eternal Nightcap by The Whitlams and Chunky Chunky Air Guitar from Love This city also by The Whitlams Chit Chat wrote many of the Machine Gun Fellatio hits including Unsent Letter and Rollercoaster.
His other co-writes under the name Glenn Dormand include[8] Source:[8] Chit Chat has teamed-up with longtime writing partner Scottie Scott and formed The StickUp Kids.
[12] Prior to Machine Gun Fellatio achieving success, Chit Chat provided scores for local adult films.
You think it’s going to be easy – you’re just going to get the wah pedal and knock it out, but you’ve pretty much got to write wall-to-wall sound and add dynamics for a 20-minute scene.
"[13] Chit Chat is currently researching and directing a documentary series entitled Stories of Our Town with Carnivore Films' Tony Whittaker.