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💚 A gentle beginning with things picking up as the show goes on. 

Eccentric Track of the Week: Deafheaven - Dream House
Live Before the Entertainment Guide: Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Live)

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See you beautiful creatures next week, thank you always for supporting bFM 💚

Betty Carter - Open The Door
Koop, Ane Brun - Koop Island Blues
Jai Paul - Do You Love Her Now
Soft Hair - Lying Has To Stop
Serebii - Verrans Corner (feat. Leith Sye Towers)
Neive Strang - Gather Round
The Veils - Melancholy Moon
Destroyer - Kaputt
Japanese Breakfast - Mega Circuit
SODA BOYZ - Enough
Los York’s - Solo estoy
Caru, Brandn Shiraz - Back 2 Back
Mia Koden - Wait A Minute
Deafheaven - Dream House
Chris Knox - And I Will Cry
Horsegirl - Frontrunner
The Durutti Column - Future Perfect
Jack Glacier - upb4thasun
CCTV - austerity blues
SBTRKT, Ezra Koenig - NEW DROP.NEW YORK
Sababa 5, Sophia Solomon - Shehzadi - शहज़ादी
Apollo Brown - Never In A Million Years
KNEECAP - H.O.O.D
Manix - Feel Real Good
Noise Factory - Can You Feel The Rush
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Live)
Porridge Radio - Don’t Want To Dance
Arahi - Baby’s Back
Evelyn “Champagne” King - Love Come Down
From Outside - W.D.T.W (feat. ILLSEFF, DIZZY DASH, JUDAH KIDD & SPEWER)
Triniidadii - FATED PATH
Michael Llewellyn - Down By The Packs
Armand Hammer - The Gods Must Be Crazy
McLusky - To Hell With Good Intentions
The D4 - No Antidote
Burland - Dagobah
Aristidez - Caudal
Chop Daily, Eugy Official - My Touch
Mia Koden - F.T.S
Klute - Hell Hath No Fury

For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire host Caeden spoke to Labour’s Carmel Sepuloni about Destiny Church’s Pride Protests and the new tourism ad campaign.

For International Desk, they spoke to AUT Senior Law Lecturer Sione Tekiteki about the controversial Cook Islands/China agreement. 

And they spoke to University of Auckland Commercial Law Professor Alex Sims about the Right of Repair Bill that passed its first reading in Parliament yesterday.

For City Counselling this week, producer Sofia caught up with Councillor Shane Henderson about Auckland Council’s submission on the Treaty Principles Bill and the Destiny Church protests at pride events over the weekend.

The Cook Islands and China have released the details of their recent partnership agreement.

The agreement has raised concern amongst the New Zealand government, who have close constitutional ties with the Cook Islands, as they felt they were not adequately consulted before the agreement was signed.

The controversial agreement, and New Zealand’s opposition to not being adequately consulted, have gained international attention.

For International Desk this week, Wire host Caeden spoke to AUT Law Senior Lecturer Sione Tekiteki about the agreement and the controversy surrounding it.

A family-friendly Auckland Pride Event was stormed by about 50 protestors in Te Atutū on Saturday.

The event, involving a Drag King talking to children about the science of Rainbows, was invaded by members of Destiny’s Church. Later the same day Destiny’s Church intimidated attendees at Auckland’s Rainbow Parade.

And the government has launched a new tourism ad campaign with the tagline “Everyone Must Go!”

The tagline has had a mixed reception, however, it aims to boost Australian tourism numbers, which haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

For our weekly catch-up with Labour’s Carmel Sepuloni, Wire host Caeden asks about both of these topics.