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Final show of 2025! Thanks so much for lending me your taringas this year. It's an honour and a privilege to have this slot and I enjoy all your thoughts and opinions <3
A chill chose today with new music from Martin Sagadin and The Phoenix Foundation, 95bFM listener requests (M by The Cure) and plenty of ideas for how to spend your December.
my life giver, the person who's vagina i cam out of, my māmā michelle ward, joins me on morning glory this morning! a special show featuring...shout outs to twizel area school and our brother cam, kōrero about the best train line in nz that ever existed the fairlie flyer (rest in peace babes), nz bangers from the nz songbook cd, reverance for a&p shows, educating the people on the 1974 ōtautahi commonwealth games and some nice te wahi pounamu hospitality!
piet tuinder joins me as always for out weekly segment "me and all my homies love native manu" to this week talk about the tūturiwhatu/the dotterel! whakarongo mai nei e te iwi!
Daphne Walker - Haere Mai (Song of Welcome) [with Bill Wolfgramm & His Islanders]
Te Tira Waiata o Te Pukawai feat. Pere Wihongi, Tuakoi Ohia, Kaaterama Pou, Metotagivale Schmidt-Peke, Awhimai Fraser, Elias Ashby, Piripi Gordon & Ricky-Lee Tapuni-Mitai - Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi
Ronan Hardiman - Lord of the Dance (With Taps)
Patea Maori Club - Poi E
The Muttonbirds - Dominion Road
The Phoenix Foundation - Vampire Class
Sword II - Sentry
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - No Pigs
Dave Dobbyn & Herbs - Slice of Heaven
Picasso Trio - The Fairlie Flyer
Dragon - Are You Old Enough
Fred Dagg - Gumboots
Hawera Highland Pipe Band - Fyne Thyme Medley
Fat Freddy's Drop - Roady
Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep
The Fourmyula - Nature
Scribe - Not Many
Steve Allen - Join Together
The Exponents - Christchurch (In Cashel St I Wait)
This Morning glory was a packed one ! Huia started the show off with some pretty tunes that later blended into sounds of jazz, indie, and rock. On the agenda of this morning was Fancy New Band with Greer Castle who came up to play from Poneke! Later on we had Play It Strange Finalist Betty Shen who came in for a guest interview! Brought to you by Nz On Air
This week, Thursday host Emma Gleason was joined by Gisborne teen Salem Māhia, who won first place in the Play It Strange 2025 National Songwriting Competition with ‘A Girl Named Abigail’. He tells Emma how he got into music and what it was like being part of the Play It Strange programme (you can donate to the charitable trust's mahi here.)
After a hiatus following their first release in 2019, Young Baptistare back with new material. The Tāmaki Makaurau four-piece is comprised of vocalist and guitarist Hugo Collins, drummer Emlyn Williams, Tim Burrows on lead guitar, and Nico Fitzpatrick on bass. Whakarongo mai nei to hear their forthcoming singles, plus a live version of a tune familiar to bFM listeners, Ice Cold Sensation. Keep an ear out for more recorded tunes set for release this year.
Priya Sami stops by the 95bFM studio to talk about Bub, her Taite-nominated music project. Bub's debut album, Can't Even, is a finalist for Best Independent Debut. Priya tells Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason how it feels to have songs she began writing as a teenager acknowledged for such a prestigious prize. They also discuss The Strokes, The Warriors and using music as a coping mechanism. Priya is playing at the Powerstation tonight with The Beths. You can buy Bub's album (irridescent purple vinyl!) on Bandcamp and at all good music stores now.
this week whānau, piet and liv talk about the pūtangitangi/paradise shelduck! a very common manu but a very special one for piet, i mean what bird isn't special for piet at this point!
liv chats to geneva am about her recent double nom for taite award 2026 and best independent debut! babes i hope u win and i hope u get to see the mint chicks xo
liv talks to nicki and wayne from howick about ginge and minge's show @ basement theatre this wiki, then talks to ginge and minge about the same show! house of ick guys u have to see it, u will never be the same!
Holly Shervey joins Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason to talk about her new show Crackhead, which charts the trials and tribulations of a young woman sent to mental health facility The Laast Resort to deal with her addiction issues. Shervey discusses how her own experiences in a mental health unit informed the show, how the whole series came together, and what they used for that visceral faeces scene.
Crackhead is airing on Sky New Zealand’s TV3 and streaming on 3NOW.
This Morning for Fancy New Band we had very fancy and new Tamaki based band, Masc/Femme!Despite not having anything released so far they shredded the studio!
Thursday host Emma Gleason is joined in the 95bFM studio by the Soundscape Sirens trio of MxDicey (Marissa Holder), Talmar (Hannah Berry) and Vanessa Tottle. They discuss how a pilot gig in 2025 (read the bFM review here) turned into a nationwide tour, how they came to play music together and what influences their respective sounds. Catch the Sirens at Whammy Bar on March 14, Christchurch’s Dark Room on March 21 and Hamilton’s Last Place 28 March. Tickets from Under The Radar.
this week piet (birdman 3000) and liv (birdlover 3000) are talking about everyone's fav fatty boom bird, the takahē! the hide and seek champion of aotearoa and truly the biggest comeback story to come out of the murchison mountains.
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