Corey holds the fort down as Jonny parties at Flamingo Pier Waiheke - Tom Rodwell is in for Friday Live - and we finally give away the Samsung Watch to a lucky listener!
Underworld - Born Slippy
Stereolab - French Disko
? Fog (NZ) - Brian
Zounds - Can’t Cheat Karma
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Roots Manuva - Witness (One Hope) (Walworth Road Rockers Dub)
African Head Charge - Heading To Glory
Freaks - The Washing Machine
LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls
Laibach - Sympathy For The Devil
Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)
Pavement - Texas Never Whispers
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Siouxie & The Banshees - Painted Bird
Radiohead - Just
Queens Of The Stone Ages - Monsters In The Parasol
Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie (NZ) - Midnight Marauders
London Funk Allstars - Junkies Bad Trip
Dead Dred - Dred Bass
Blam Blam Blam (NZ) - Battleship Grey
Flowers/Icehouse - We Can Get Together
The Jesus Lizard - Destroy Before Reading
Kristen Hersh - Sundrops
The Stranglers - Do You Wanna? Death & Night & Blood (Yukio) (live)
Simon speaks to Councillor Shane Henderson about the damage to the communities on the west coast as well as why he described the upcoming Auckland City Budget as the most important in 10 years.
Kia ora, and welcome to The Wire for Rāpare Thursday!
On today's show:
A special report covering yesterday's Auckland University staff strike and march through campus.
Spike speaks to Dr. Tim Welch about the downsides of the Auckland Light Rail plan, and Dr. Richard Arnold about the 2023 census.
Simon speaks to Shane Henderson for City Counselling about how communities out west are dealing with the aftermath of extreme weather and the upcoming Council budget, and Professor Nathan Consedine about using compassion as a KPI in the healthcare industry.
Yesterday University of Auckland staff went on strike, fighting for better conditions and wages as workers, as negotiations between unions and the University remain deadlocked. Spike spoke to marchers to get their perspective and what they're asking of university management.
Spike speaks to Dr. Tim Welch about Auckland Light Rail, the current downsides to the current planned approach for the project, and the benefits of surface light rail.
Spike speaks to Dr. Richard Arnold on the soon approaching 2023 census, the challenges facing it and what to learn from 2018's low census participation result.