Born in Dublin into a medical family Maurice caught the showbiz bug at a very early age . After listening to music by Joey Dee and the Starlighters , live at the Peppermint Lounge New York , and Sandy Nelson on the drums with his hit single 'Drum Beat', Maurice decided that showbiz was for him. By the age of 12 he started drumming with a young Dublin Beat Group ‘The Key Notes’ and after reshuffling , the band was named ‘The KingBees’.
After the onslaught of The Beatles, Maurice felt the time had come to try his luck at the fame game and ran way to Germany with the rest of The KingBees trying to emulate John , Paul George and Ringo’s success. The one problem he had was that he forgot to tell his parents , who were not at all happy with his decision to leave school at 15 and not to study medicine!!!

By 1969 his dream of stardom failed to materialise so he decided to open a discotheque. It was to be the first disco in Ireland and he chose Dublin’s fashionable Lesson Street to open his basement club ' Elizabeths '' . The club became a huge success, attracting Ireland's rich and famous and as a result the name Maurice Boland began appearing in all of Dublin's gossip columns. In the early 80's, bored with his life in Ireland, Maurice, moved his family to Marbella , Spain after acquiring ' Oscars ' a discothèque owned by the then formula one racing champion James Hunt. In ’86 he opened his successful Cuba Club on Marbella’s Golden Mile. His success in Marbella led , almost by default , to his first radio show in English on one of Spain’s largest independent Radio stations . The Boland Talk Show quickly became a favourite amongst the large ex pat communities along the Costa Del Sol.

Ireland still loved Boland , and he , together with his wife Wendy , regularly appeared in the national press and glossy magazines over there. It was after VIP Magazine (Ireland 's equivalent to OK and Hello Mags) sent a crew to Marbella to do feature on Maurice that he decided to launch his own celebrity magazine . He called it H! Society (see link) and within a short time it became a ' must to be seen in and to be seen with 'magazine. The pages were filled with the 'whose who in society' both those that lived in Marbella and Celebrities holidaying in the area. During this time, Maurice began broadcasting 'The Boland Talk Show' live from places such as Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Barbados, St Lucia, Canada, London and his native Dublin.

May 2004 saw Maurice’s dreams come true when he launched his own radio station REMfm (see link) .
After so many years on radio in Spain he knew exactly what his audience wanted and lined up the most
impressive array of English presenters Spain had to offer. REMfm is now Spain largest English speaking
radio network broadcasting to listeners along the Costa Del Sol, Costa Blanca, Costa Almeria, Costa
Cálida, and Madrid . The Maurice Boland Show is a unique blend of irreverent humour, celebrity interviews
and human interest stories from around the globe and is radio at its most original and stimulating. All this
within 16 Months!!!

Maurice is a tireless charity worker chairing his own ‘Raise The Roof Foundation’ Raising Millions of Euros
for the Cancer Care Hospice ‘Cudeca’. He was the founder of Varity Club in Spain he also works for Age
For Concern, The Rees Daniels Fund etc. He is also The Vice President of Marbella Jewish Community.

He lives with his wife in a magnificent home nestled in the hills over looking Marbella . They have three
sons Nicholas, Justin ,both of whom commute between Marbella and Bulgaria where they run a very
successful property company and Daniel the baby ( 24) who has followed his dad into showbiz by
recording music and presenting TV shows.
Ask Maurice what his hobbies are and he ' ll laugh at you saying “ when do you think I would have time for
a hobby , after all , my work is my hobby”

Note: List of some of Boland’s past guests ( click on ‘listen’ to hear some recent interviews)

The Boland Guest list has included:
American talk show supremo Jay Leno,
Ex British prime Ministers; Sir Edward Heath and Lord James Callaghan.
Leader of the Liberal Party Lord David Steel,
Ex Foreign Secretary Lord Douglas Hurd.
From the world of music; Beatles producer Sir George Martin,
Royal photographer Lord Patrick Lichfield.
Song writing legends Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Tim Rice,
American musical geniuses Marvin Hamlisch, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Otis Williams (The Temptations) Martha Reeves, Larry Adler, Lorna Luft, Hughie Lewis (and The News), Gloria Gaynor, Ben Vereen, Wayne Newton and Gene Pitney. Actors; Rod Steiger, Oliver Reed, Jackie Mason, Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeves, Janet Leigh, Shelly Winters, Eric Sykes and Rodney Daingerfield.

English entertainers: Sir Cliff Richard, Bruce Forsyth, Jimmy Tarbuck, Ronnie Corbett, Elaine Page, Bob Monkhouse, Sir Harry Secombe, Jasper Carrot, Des O'Connor, Max Bygraves, Rolf Harris, Eric Sykes, Prunella Scales, Maureen Lipman and Take That front man Gary Barlow.
Film Producer Michael Winner.

Irish entertainers Terry Wogan, Gay Byrne, Chris De Burgh , James Galway, Gloria Hunniford, Frank Carson and Brendan O'Carrol.

From the world of sport, boxers Larry Holmes, Chris Eubank, John Conteh, and Nigel Benn.
Ex Formula 1 world champion Nigel Mansell.
Golfer Colin Montgomerie and Ian Wright, Pat Jennings, Ray Clemence.

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