💚 Thank you as always for tuning in, it's a special special time entering the studio each and every time.
So the weather is warmer and I'm one week further away from the aggregious mispronunciation of a musical icon live on air. Strap in and buckle up for three hours genre fluid goodness.
Kicked it off with some Brian Eno, slid round from Cotton Jones to Burial took a short flight to Somalia for some Dur-Dur Band played the wrong David Bowie track. Had Molly ask if I'd stolen their A.R. Kane record. And got slightly wonky with some DLR, Tim Reaper, Sully and Peverelist.
See y'all next week, same time same place. And if you like the show, here's a playlist for it (but if you really like it please consider avenues that provide more than 0.000000000001c per stream) xx 💚 -Eli~
Brian Eno - Flower Bells 1 King Krule - Underclass Michael Seyer - Lucky Love Shli - Bracing Khruangbin - Two Fish and an Elephant Cotton Jones - Blood Red Sentimental Blues Emma-Jean Thackray - Movementt And$um x Lui Mill - Won’t Be The Same Best Coast - How They Want Burial - Unknown Summer Office Dog - Hand In Hand Little Simz - Little Q, Pt. 2 Karl Steven - Tāmaki 5000 (Proteins of Magic Remix) Karma - Cha Peverelist - Roll with the Punches Ahmed Malek - Autopsie d’un complot Dogs on Shady Lane - March The Bard - Nothing At All Serebii - Really You Joe Pass - A Time for Us James Blake - Big Hammer Jockstrap - Jennifer B Ebony Lamb - My Daughter My Sister My Son Bad Brains - Rally Round Jah Throne The Breeders - Go Man Go The Clash - Straight To Hell Dur-Dur Band - Yabaal Rita Payés, Elisabeth Roma - Nunca vas a comprender Ta-ku - I Miss Yo Tim Reaper - Windswept (Sully Fader Mix) The Shaws - The Way You Feel Animal Collective - Today’s Supernatural Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Crimson and Clover Fix und Ferlig - Cube carrelage blanc DLR - Banana Bread David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space English Teacher - R&B Willie J Healey - Subterraneans
On What's Up with Chris Hipkins, the Prime Minister speaks to Rachel about the government's BlackRock climate announcement, the Auckland Transport plan announcement, recent polling and a look ahead for election year. Joshua Worthington-Church from Exploding Rainbow Orchestra is in the studio to talk about their upcoming show and the project as a whole. Patrick and Josh from Soft Bait are in the studio to talk about their winter tour that reaches Auckland on Friday night at Whammy Bar, where they’ll play alongside K M P T and The Sour. Whakarongo mai nei!
Recent drugs misrepresented as pure MDMA have caused hospitalizations in the Hawke’s Bay region, with four men admitted and two in critical condition.
Arno spoke to the NZ Drug Foundation’s executive director Sarah Helm to find out more. Arno started the interview by asking what the MDMA was laced with.
A recent report called ‘State of the City’ examines Auckland City in a global context, comparing it to developed cities in other countries. The report draws both comparisons and highlights potential areas of improvement.
The report was commissioned by the Committee for Auckland, in partnership with Deloitte and Auckland Council’s economic and cultural agency Tātaki Auckland Unlimited.
Arno spoke with Greater Auckland editor Matt Lowrie to find out more about the findings in the report. Arno started by asking how Matt viewed Auckland prior to reading the report.
In the upcoming election there have been many discussions on all sides in regard to tax policy. A Newshub-Reid research poll in May found that a majority of Kiwi’s support implementing a wealth tax, although Labour, National and ACT have been reluctant to touch the subject with Labour still making no major tax reform announcements in the run-up to the election.
Union’s in Tamaki Makaurau have become vocal and have organised a protest advocating for tax reform targeted at New Zealand’s wealthiest. To talk more about the protest that is happening next week, Andre Fa'aoso spoke to protest organiser with Unite Union Joe Carolan.
This year ConsumerNZ launched a campaign to rid our Supermarket shelves from “Dodgy Specials”.
The campaign asked for examples of misleading pricing in our supermarket aisles.
The Labour Government has just announced new regulations around Unit Pricing that could help combat these “Dodgy Specials”
The regulations mean that all similar products will have to be displayed with a consistent unit price, making it easier to distinguish which products are cheaper by unit.
Nicholas spoke to Consumer NZ’s Jessica Walker about these new regulations, as well at ConsumerNZ’s campaign to rid New Zealand’s supermarket of quote “Dodgy Supermarket Specials”
On Tuesday, Health Coalition Aotearoa held a forum in Wellington for political parties to front their health policies over tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food. Political parties present at the forum were Labour’s Ayeesha Verrall, the Green’s Chlöe Swarbrick and National’s Shane Reti to share their party’s policy positions.
To talk more about how important parties’ health policies are in voters' decision making in the upcoming election, Andre Fa'aoso spoke to Professor Boyd Swinburn, co-chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa.
Andre Fa’aoso spoke to Professor Boyd Swinburn, co-chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa about political parties' positions on tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food policies and how they should weigh-in on voters' decision making come election day.
Andre Fa’aoso also spoke to Joe Carolan about a Tax the Rich protest that is being held in Tamaki Makaurau next Saturday.
Arno spoke to Greater Auckland’s Matt Lowrie about the new State of the City report. Arno also spoke to Sarah Helm from the NZ Drug Foundation about laced MDMA in the Hawke’s Bay area
Nicholas, spoke to Jessica Walker from ConsumerNZ about new Unit pricing regulations for supermarkets
This is the last Wednesday Wire with Andre as he heads off to America to begin his studies at Yale University, so enjoy!
Joshua Worthington-Church from Exploding Rainbow Orchestra is in the studio to talk about their upcoming show and the project as a whole. Whakarongo mai nei!
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