And when I checked the link there was something about Norman's face that rang a rather tiny bell; I have been complimented by several on my memory for faces but I'm still trying to rack my brain for clues.

and
for someone who has allegedly been in business 'for 30 years' (Maybe that's where you remember him Rowan, from TV - A Current Affair! - but perhaps from his 'other businesses!)

I've been in Armidale for about 20 years by now and, while I did a little recording in Tamworth (a bit over an hour's drive south of here), I can't place him either here or in Tamworth. Before that, although I was rather well known around much of SE Oz I actually lived in Melbourne, where I was rather active in the music scene, even teaching recording/mixing and band techniques and radio production to high school students (two half hour shows per week on 3CR); perhaps I bumped into him around Melbourne.

I'll keep thinking. Me a blogger?????? Ho hum.

Cheers, Rowan