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Live from the Ellen Melville Centre, it's Drive Island XV featuring performances from Louisa Nicklin and Dead Little Penny. Thanks to NZ On Air Music and Altura Coffee.
This Thursday on Drive you've got your favourite chit chat with Jonny and Big Hungry, but with a twist! Hang out with them as they prepare for the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards with interviews from the site in question and heaps of music from the nominees! Also, I think they were wearing fancy shoes in prep for this glitz fest, if that makes a difference. Enjoy.
This week Chris discusses David Seymour's recent comments that Aotearoa could become a “high-value powerhouse” in the global cannibas export market, Helius Theraputics shuts down citing regulation, a study at Otago shows CBD oil eases endometriosis pain, and 'Sativa' and 'Indica' both make the 2025 list of declined baby names.
There is nothing hyperbolic about the term eclectic when applied to Amelia Berry's music career.
The producer, instrumentalist, songwriter and producer has worked across genres while always managing to maintain a particular feeling.
For this special edition of AudioCulture, Martyn Pepperell joins the show to discuss Berry's career. From early days in the post-punk trio Nice Birds to Berry's award-winning work under the moniker Amamelia.
You can check out Martyn's extensive profile here.
Laika reviews recent production Music Portrait of a Humble Disabled Samoan, the upcoming My Name is Rachel Corrie at Te Pou Theatre, and Words In Motion at Basement Theatre. Whakarongo mai nei!
Peter Lineham discusses the phenomenon of the 'quiet revival', a term used to describe the rise of young men converting to Catholicism and Orthodox Christian denominations.
Molly speaks with filmmaker Oliver Laxe about his Oscar-nominated film Sirāt. The director discusses working with ravers, confronting death on the dancefloor and via cinema, and working with composer Kangding Ray. You can catch Sirāt in cinemas now across Aotearoa.
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