KIIS Breakfast with Chris, Amy and Jack went to air for the very first time on Monday 9 November 2026. Dr Chris Brown, Amy Gerard and Jack Charles, live out of the KIIS 1065 studio in North Sydney, with Natalie Penfold on news. New team, new show, first morning.
I was in that studio with the sax. One track live on air, and a second one played for the cameras so KIIS had something for the socials. They brought me in to help launch the show and to celebrate the first morning the three of them had together.
None of it feels like a gig. There is no stage, no crowd, no room to read. Just a purple wall, a microphone a hand span from the bell, and a red light that means people in cars and kitchens across Sydney are hearing you right now.
Live sax on a breakfast show is not a performance in the usual sense. It is a very short piece of playing that has to arrive, say one thing and get out of the way.
What live radio asks of a sax player
On a stage the room tells you what to do. In a studio the only feedback is the producer in your headphones and the hosts a metre away. So every decision gets made before you sit down: where the horn enters, how long the phrase runs, what you leave out so the talking still lands.
The instinct is to fill. The job is to leave space. The second a horn covers a punchline, the room loses the joke, and that is your fault, not the host's.
The other thing nobody tells you about studio work is how exposed a broadcast mic is. Every articulation, every breath, every pad. Playing into a radio chain sits much closer to recording than to performing.
Two tracks, two completely different audiences
The track that went to air played to ears only. Warm tone, no harsh top end, sitting under the voices rather than over them. Nobody watching, nobody to work, just the sound doing all of the job.
The second track was played for the KIIS cameras and socials. That one played to a phone screen at arm's length, held vertical, watched with the sound half down. So the playing had to be watchable as well as listenable. Movement, eye line, standing where the frame wants you instead of where the mic wants you.
Same horn, same morning, two different jobs. That is most of the work in a media or brand appearance now, and it is the part people forget to plan for.
The room on a first show
A first show carries a different kind of pressure to a normal shift. The format is new, the team is new, and every segment is being judged in real time by people who have been building toward 6am for months.
Having a live horn in the room for it was a nice piece of thinking from their side. It gave the opening something to sit on, and it gave the three of them a moment to enjoy in among the nerves.
Why a radio credit is worth more than it sounds
Breakfast radio is the one media slot where a musician gets heard by people who were not looking for music. Nobody tuning in to KIIS 1065 on the way to work is expecting a saxophone, and that is exactly why it lands. It arrives on an audience that did not ask for it.
That is the same effect every corporate client is buying. A launch, a product reveal, a store opening, a staff event. The question is never whether the player can play. It is whether the sound will land on the room that is actually there.
Playing into a live studio at 7am is a decent test of that, with no second take.
Quick facts
- Show: KIIS Breakfast with Chris, Amy & Jack
- Station: KIIS 1065, Sydney
- First broadcast: Monday 9 November 2026
- Hosts: Dr Chris Brown, Amy Gerard, Jack Charles
- News: Natalie Penfold
- Studio: KIIS 1065, North Sydney
- Orget's role: live saxophone on air, plus a second track filmed for KIIS socials
Want live sax at your launch?
If you are putting on a launch, a brand activation, a store opening or a corporate night and you want a room that feels like something happened, have a look at what I do for corporate events or send me the date and tell me what the moment is meant to feel like.
More behind the scenes: how live sax hyped a BMW launch, and playing over SHOUSE on Sydney Harbour.
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