Get your Saturday off to a good start with The Saturday Spring, featuring Fables forDemo Gods, and Your Gig is Showing with Scott and Rob from Matakanarama.
Let's get springin'! Today's show features Your Gig is Showing with Cullin Hearty and the who, what, where, why and when of The Others Way Festival. Plus Demo Gods with Finn Johansson and Paul Cathro.
Featuring a big bag of new music including Charlie xcx and John Cale from the soundtrack of the movie Wuthering Heights (dir. Emerald Fennell) and a nod to Neil Young's 80th birthday! (November 12th).
Kāhui St David’s is situated in the St David’s Memorial Church in Khyber Pass Road. Paul is here to tell us about some special events that are on at the venue in the run up to Christmas.
Featuring Josh Worthington-Church, conductor of the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra, discussing the upcoming Songbook Volume 4 gigs on Your Gig Is Showing. Then, Finn returns for the second part of Demo Gods and is in the studio with Navakatoa Tekela-Pule, Kenny Sterling, and Miss Whenua with the completed demo. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring Jordan discussing the Punks For Palestine Fundraiseron Your Gig Is Showing. Then, Babe Martin is back for her second part of Demo Gods with Finn.
Kaitlyn is on this week and is joined in studio by Darryn Harkness to discuss From Scratch Fundraiser For Medical Support To Gaza for Your Gig Is Showing. Plus, Finn Johansson is up for Demo Gods too, to talk us through his upcoming episode with Navakatoa Tekela-Pule and Kenny Sterling. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Tame Impala - Loser
The Veils - Mortal Wound
AW - Thief of Joy
Big Thief - Shark Smile
MJ Lenderman & This Is Lorelei - Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)
Our Beloved Ditch - Backgammon
black midi - bmbmbm
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Geese - Cobra
Bic Runga - It's Like Summertime
Pulp - Got To Have Love
DC Maxwell - Golden Light
Black Milk - The Matrix ft Pharoahe Monch & Sean Price
Urban Pacifika - One
Troy Kingi - Isn't How I Remember (feat. SWIDT)
Beastwars - The Storm
The Strokes - The End Has No End
ONONO - Think About U
Magdalena Bay - Second Sleep
Melody's Echo Chamber - Daisy (feat. El Michels Affair)
Amamelia aka Amelia Berry beams in from Naarm (Melbourne) to get us in the mood for her joyously joyful The Joy Of Living Album Release Show, Friday 17th April at Whammy Bar.
Finn Johansson with the rundown on his latest Demo Gods. He’s rounded up a couple of members of Tamaki pop-punksters Club Ruby: lead singer, Jade Lewis and bassist Hon Manawangphiphat, who will be back in the studio next week with their creation.
Finn Johansson comes into the studio with his latest Demo God – Maebh McCurdy (formerly LEIGH) for an entertaining chat and the unveiling of the song that takes you to places you didn’t even know you wanted to go.
The prompt was “The Great Spectacle of Music” and the resulting demo is titled Traipsing Through the Swamp (Every Little Froggy Gotta Love).
Otis Mace comes into the studio with his guitar to talk up his Planet New Tron Star gig at the Audio Foundation March 27th billed as "a sci-fi song saga of trans-dimensional alien life”.
Finn Johansson introduces his latest Demo God – Maebh McCurdy (formerly LEIGH) who has chosen the prompt ’The Great Spectacle of Music”. Maebh will be joining Finn in the studio next week to unveil their musical extravaganza!
George D. Henderson with another A Song From Insane Times. This week George has chosen his "favourite record by a New Zealand band” – from 1991, Stepford 5 and Little Sisters of Satan.
We’re in Adelaide to talk with Alina Kuzma who sings and plays the bandura (a traditional stringed Ukrainian instrument) in the all-female ensemble Daughters of Donbas who are playing WomAdelaide on their way to Auckland for a concert at the St Heliers Church and Community Centre Thursday March 12th.
Daughters of Donbas are a music and human rights project highlighting the plight of “at least 20,000 Ukranian children abducted from occupied Ukraine and taken to Russia”. Alina is joined by Canadian journalist and record producer Daniel Rosenberg.
Our Demo God this week has tripped into Americana with Finn Johansson on the back of the horse. Lead singer and vocalist for Soft Bait Josh Hunter took up the challenge, twisted the prompts and surprised us all with his (as yet) untitled demo. Hear it here!