- Toby Amies
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Amies was brought up in
Worcestershire and went to theUniversity of Exeter inDevon and subsequently theUniversity of Kansas , where he was awarded a scholarship in Art History. He declined the scholarship in favour of work in music TV in the UK at The Powerstation, where he was on the air with Chris Evans,Boy George ,Steven Wells andSuggs . He started DJing in art college inCheltenham (he was in the same class as British artist Tim Noble) and after leaving the UK he worked behind the decks inArizona at top 40radio station KRQ alongsideJimmy Kimmel . He later worked atMCA Records in Los Angeles and then moved to work in the news department atMTV Europe partly thanks to work/appearances withQuentin Tarantino andTraci Lords at MCA.Whilst at MTV UK he worked on the programmes "Alternative Nation", "Weekend Edition", "The Big Picture" and was the co-creator of the programme "MTV Hot" which later featured
Paul Tonkinson ,Sara Cox and the German actorChristian Ulmen as hosts. He also worked alongsideDavina McCall .Amies later moved to MTV USA to host "
MTV Live " withCarson Daly . This show later became "TRL." He also hosted his own show, "Countdown to the Ten Spot ". In 1999, he moved on to form the bandGenius Steals withNew York photographerBrooke Williams , working withMoby ,Romanthony ,Darry Logan ,Jim Sclavunos andMatt Verta-Ray amongst others. At this time he also hosted the anarchic US Top 20, most famous for the show that attempted to measure the length of Long Island.In 2001, Amies moved back to the UK where he covered film festivals for FilmFour, worked for Radio 4 and became the host of three series of "
Lonely Planet Six Degrees ". He now concentrates onphotography , makingdocumentaries and pop videos.Amies recently has presented programmes on
Eat Cinema ,BBC Two ,BBC Four andBBC World Service . He currently has a music show called "Outside" onTotally Radio .External links
* [http://www.tobyamies.com Toby Amies - Picturemaker]
* [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/lptv/presenters/toby.cfm Toby Amies profile] at theLonely Planet website
* [http://www.eatcinema.com Eat Cinema website]
* [http://www.totallyradio.com/show_pages/shows.php?show=107 "Outside" page] at theTotally Radio website
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