Tuva'a Clifton and Stella Huggins take you on a tour de force through the night of the 2023 Taite Awards. From seeing how the room is feeling, to chatting to the winners, 95bFM listeners can get a glimpse into it all. Whakarongo mai nei!
The Taite Prize 2023 finalists:
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris (Flying Nun Records)
Avantdale Bowling Club - Trees (Years Gone By)
Erny Belle - Venus Is Home (Flying Nun Records)
Fazerdaze - Break! (Flying Nun Records)
Hans Pucket - No Drama (Carpark Records)
Marlon Williams - My Boy (Marlon Williams Music Limited)
Princess Chelsea - Everything Is Going To Be Alright (Lil Chief Records)
Tami Neilson - Kingmaker (Neilson Records)
TE KAAHU - Te Kaahu O Rangi (Theia Music Ltd)
The Beths - Expert In A Dying Field (Ivy League Records)
The three albums nominated for the 2023 Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award:
Host Andre Fa'aoso chats with Auckland University Students’ Association President Alan Shaker for our monthly catch-up about their campaign to continue half price public transport and other things happening on campus.
Andre also speaks to Neil Curtis from the University of Auckland about a new label that Twitter is pinning on government-funded media outlets’ accounts in Aotearoa and around the world, and the impact that will have on perceptions of these outlets.
Producer Alex Bonham speaks to Associate Professor Matthew Bradbury from Unitec about Sponge Cities.
Producer Arno speaks about a new study showing Vaccine Nocebo Effects, the opposite of placebo, w/ Dr Kate MacKrill from the University of Auckland
Arno also speaks about the now-cancelled Feral Cat Hunting Competition w/ Will Appelbe from Save Animals From Exploitation
On The Green Desk, Jack Marshall speaks to Biologist and assistant research historian Dr Alex Boast about how fossilised Kākāpō poo could help the endangered parrot's survival.
The bloodstainedeyes crew, rangatahi from the Ignite programme, come up to tell us about their kaupapa and the gig they're organising (where all profits will go to the Mental Health Foundation). Whakarongo mai nei!
Last week Environment Minister David Parker agreed that Auckland Council could have more time to change its planning rules to allow greater intensification but he instructed the council that they had to reduce the amount of impermeable spaces like concrete driveways and plan for a sponge city. Alex Bonham talked to landscape architect Matthew Bradbury, an Associate Professor at Unitect and author of the book Water City what a sponge city is and what it might look like.
The bus driver shortage has seen around 1000 buses cancelled per day. Alex Bonham talks to transport campaigner Matt Lowrie of Greater Auckland blog on the impact of delays and cancellations on Aucklanders and what can be done to improve wages and safety for bus drivers.
Most people know the kākāpō as the endangered bird stuck on a few islands. The flightless bird was brought to the brink of extinction with only some 50 birds left at one point – But once upon a time, kākāpō covered Aotearoa from the north down to the south. What did they eat? How did they live without the rimu? This week, The Green Desk spoke to Dr Alex Boast from Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research who has been looking into the bird's pre-colonial droppings to answer these questions.
This week on the biggest show on the radio, Annabel is flying solo... which means no funny business. Just good music. Featuring tracks from Rye, Modest Mouse, Wednesday and King Krule as well as the Top 10 tracks as voted by you!
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