Meet The Team
Brad Coates
Managing Director
Most of Brad's past history is documented elsewhere, the remainder being fit for neither man nor beast. As Managing Director of Melbourne Music Centre, his business dealings are fatally flawed by an unfortunate streak of honesty and sense of fair play. This mars his ability to run what would otherwise be an enormously successful operation. He makes up for this true lack of business acumen by being the possessor of a particularly mischievous and stirring sense of humour, oft misinterpreted by so many others, to their greater detriment. Of course, don’t you know anything??Mastermind and perpetrator of incredibly complex and convoluted practical jokes, Brad might one day concentrate these efforts on actually running the business, instead of allowing his staff to rescue him and the business from financial disaster on an almost daily basis.
Denise Cameron (Deni)
Sales & Despatch
Deni, the Rose amongst the Thorns, is the noblewoman of our peel. Deni is sweet, caring, and sometimes appears to love animals and plants more than people. BUT.....step out of line and that's where it stops. If pushed too far......don’t say we didn’t warn you. Of course we are all tongue-in-cheek here, and Deni is no different. Her humour has evolved since her tenure, and while it’s not quite as black as Brad and Fiona’s indisputably is, it has now achieved a much darker shade of grey than previously.
Todor Manojlovic
Online & Store Sales Assistant
A relatively new member to the Melbourne Music Menagerie, Tod brings a wealth of knowledge to the business. Were MMC a home for the academically deranged, this would have been a great asset. Clearly of middle European extraction, Todor is so far the only staff member to rival Choo in hirsuteness, oft resembling an astrakhan rug when reclining upon the floor, applying the heel of his palm to his forehead. Possessor of a great sense of humour (you’d need it too, if you worked here), he spends most of his time gazing wistfully at an empty counter, hoping, upon hope, for another unwitting victim to his sales acumen. When not gazing vacantly (whoops! – wistfully), he spends the rest of the day engaged in an intimate game of cranial billiards, bouncing the one brain cell off the other one until they finally amalgamate into a kind of sub-space anomaly. Well…we like him anyway.
Neo
Customer Happiness Ambassador
Sporting more hair than most staff members combined, Neo is paws-down THE most important member of staff ever to have graced these premises. Well versed in the “meet and greet” requirements of retail business, Neo revels in his job, always ready for a spot of friendly affection. When not engaged in his favourite pastime of chasing the laser pointer’s red “Spot” around the shop, he can be found indulging in his two other main occupations – snoring blissfully and hassling for food. Neo never lets the fact that he is as deaf as a whole posse of posts deter him. Favourite quote: “Only The True Messiah Denies His Own Caninity”.
