Happy Rāmere e te whānau! It's been a huuuuuge week but Rosetta and Milly are ending on a high, with a great Brekkie show for you! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today: Travelling Tunes with Kirsten Zemke, a kōrero with Deva Mahal about her EP release and forthcoming tour, and From The Crate with Cam! Whakarongo mai nei!
Last week saw public transport usage in Auckland reach a 7 year high, on account of high fuel prices across the country. While high usage bodes well for public transport, the network is facing difficulties around overcrowding. In addition, Auckland Transport is pushing for central government support to lower fares, which ministers have rejected.
Auckland Council has also conducted a review into its resource management consenting processes, and found multiple spots for improvement.
And central government has announced dog control law reforms, which Auckland Council has welcomed given its extensive existing operations in animal control.
To discuss each of these issues, News Director Castor spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson.
Filling in for Huia today (don't worry, she'll be back next week).
This week's Fancy New Band is self-described "Tāmaki chorus pedal dealership" Young Baptistplaying forthcoming singles and a bFM classic, live and direct from the bFM studio and brought to you by NZ on Air Music.
This week Sofie flies solo, sans Jude! Joined by the wonderful Gabi, the show storms through the miserable weather with some sunny feel-good tracks and a sprinkling of English & Russian Post Punk.
Heaven is the place where nothing ever happens, ya frothers! Heaven is the mighty B. ⛅🧘💫🌌🪄
Zac Langdon-Pole is a Tāmaki-based artist whose primarily sculptural-based practice explores contrasting concepts and imagery, proposing unlikely juxtapositions into these often hybrid forms.
His current solo exhibition at Lett Thomas Gallery, Caterpillar Soup, presents a series of jigsaw puzzle collages, whereby the artist has placed the pieces of puzzles to make these combined collaged images. Imagery of warfare, volcanic matter, nature, and diagnostic imaging melded together, creating this almost pixelated, technological material language, the works question what these juxtaposing forms could mean in conversation with each other.
Sof caught up with Zac about the show at Lett Thomas and his wider practice. They also touched briefly on his project currently showing at the Domain Wintergardens titled Memory Garden (The Kiss).
After a hiatus following their first release in 2019, Young Baptistare back with new material. The Tāmaki Makaurau four-piece is comprised of vocalist and guitarist Hugo Collins, drummer Emlyn Williams, Tim Burrows on lead guitar, and Nico Fitzpatrick on bass. Whakarongo mai nei to hear their forthcoming singles, plus a live version of a tune familiar to bFM listeners, Ice Cold Sensation. Keep an ear out for more recorded tunes set for release this year.
Anto Yeldezian is a Tāmaki-based artist of Armenian heritage, who works amongst an expanded painting practice that often leans into methodologies of printmaking. Utilising methods of monoprinting, and stencils, along with a playful use of paint and material exploration.
Within his current solo show Desert Island on at Coastal Signs, Yeldezian presents a series of 7 large scale works on raw loose canvas. Installed in a manner in which the works almost engulf the gallery walls, and bring the space into a continuous field of symbols, and marks.
The works themselves harness this heavy use of motifs, and symbols as a kind of centering point to the show. The references include camels, palm trees, oil pump-jacks, Homer Simpson's thirsty bird'; ancient fossils, the triple Gs of Canterbury Clothing Company, union jacks and logos of American defence and oil companies.
Through the making of the work Yeldezian takes these symbols and applies them to various painterly techniques that almost pull them away from their own inherent meanings/references and into this place of a pattern-like language with its own set of meanings.
Maya caught up with Anto about the show as well as his overall practice.
Rosetta and Milly catch up with Deva Mahal, to chat about her new EP Future Classic Vol II: Future - out today! Deva is also heading on tour in April and May, and you can catch her playing at Double Whammy on May 2. Whakarongo mai nei!
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