Karyn is back! Featuring a kōrero with Suzanne Lynch about her new book Yesterday When I Was Young and the return of Demo Gods with Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
Rachel spins some epic fresh and familiar tunes, and is joined in the studio by Sherry Zhang to discuss the Te Kāhui Creative Writing Fundraiser taking place on Sat 26 September for Your Gig Is Showing. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
cc(tv) - Flower Beds That Grow
Hand Habits - Aquamarine
Susumu Yokota - Kodomotachi
Cindy Lee - LOVE REMAINS
maxine funke - Timeless Town
Awning - Pure & Simple
Baby Zionov - Space Holiday feat. Moody V
Dj Babatr - Sucio feat. LYZZA
Yumi Zouma - Drag
Nourished By Time - Crazy People
Power Nap - Pizza Man (Amamelia Bootleg Mix)
Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics
Bladee & Mechatok - Rainbow - make it double Oklou Mix
Geese - 100 Horses
P.H.F. - i dont give a fuck if jesus loves me
PollyHill & Samara Alofa - RUN IT HOME (LEAPING TIGER REMIX)
There's a very special guest host on the Saturday Spring this month! Rachel will be in the studio each Rāhoroi morning until Karyn returns in October. Rosa Strati and Dan Clarke from Auckland Live discuss the new youth focused festival We The Young on Your Gig Is Showing. Later, Rachel crosses to 95bFM correspondents Caeden Tipler and Sanat Singh in Aotea Square for their report from the March for Humanity.
Playlist
Diaspora Trio - Hadi Ya Bahr (live)
PollyHill & Samara Alofa - WOBBLE (AMAMELIA LOUNGE SUITE REMIX)
Karyn says hei konā rā for the winter season of The Saturday Spring, and is joined by Finn Johansson for a special recap episode of Demo Gods. Karyn (and Finn) will be back the month after next with more tunes, insightful interviews, and demos from your favourite artists.
Playlist
95bFM The Saturday Spring w/ Karyn Hay Playlist
Rāhoroi, Saturday August 30th 2025
Jackie West – Offer
Dean Blunt, Elias Ronnenfelt, Vegyn – tears on his rings and chains
Prewn – System
Sam Charlesworth – Are You Okay?
Earl Sweatshirt – TOURMALINE
TTSSFU – Call U Back
bar italia – Fundraiser
Nirvana – Aneurysm 1992 Live at Reading
Hole – Sugar Coma Live 1995
Cut Worms – Evil Twin
Straight Line was a Lie – The Beths
Silver Gore – Dogs in Heaven
Demo Gods
Jazmine Mary, Finn Johansson – Perfect
Rodney Fisher, Finn Johansson – People Please
Em, Finn Johansson – Calling Down to Earth
Juno Is, Finn Johansson – Swan Song
SJD, Finn Johansson – Unknown Caller
LIPS, Finn Johansson – You’re Not the Doors (0800 Jerrytime).
This week's guest on Your Gig Is Showing is Amy Cotter, the brain behind KBA's ongoing series D8NIGHT, taking place up and down our favourite street in Tāmaki Makaurau. On Demo Gods, Juno Is returns to play out her response, titled Swan Song, to Finn's prompt 'surf the wave, baby'. Whakarongo mai nei!
Gareth Shute speaks with Karyn about his new book Songs from the Shaky Isles, a historical analysis of how popular music developed in Aotearoa and where it's at today.
Gareth Shute is in the studio to discuss his new book Songs from the Shaky Isles. Leo Koziol and Craig Fasi join Karyn on Your Gig Is Showing to discuss their roles as the co-curators of this year's short film screening Ngā Whanaunga at the NZIFF. Later, Finn challenges Juno Is to create a brand new track from the prompt 'surf the wave, baby' on Demo Gods.
Playlist
95bFM The Saturday Spring w/ Karyn Hay Playlist
Rāhoroi, Saturday August 2nd 2025
Retail Drugs – little dog
Anna Tivel – White Goose
Neil Finn – Time For A Change
Split Enz – Spellbound
Split Enz – Mental Notes
The Beatniks – Another Day
Geese – Trinidad
The Beths – Mother Pray For Me
Upchuck – Forgotten Token
Your Gig Is Showing
Don McGlashan – Lights Come On
Yoko Ono – Looking Over From My Hotel Window
Songs From The Shaky Isles
Jay Epae – The Creep
Rockinghorse – Thru The Southern Moonlight
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Demo Gods
Juni Is – Ur Looking So Ideal
Juno Is – Chaos Worked Its Way In
Yuko Miyoshi from Memory Foam is in the studio to discuss local karaoke venue Geihinkan and the Ramen Club gig series for Your Gig Is Showing. Later on Demo Gods, Finn Johannson and SJD deliver Unknown Caller.
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!
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