Oto and Jaycee spoke with Tāmaki Makaurau singer-songwriter, Reia Guess, and played 2 hours of music by singer songwriters and dreampop artists from the Asian diaspora.
On Goldmine, a Saturday evening soundtrack by GoldTooth, Tāmaki Makaurau’s latest London import. DJ, music curator and dentist. A two-hour dive into the freshest sounds from across the globe: club heaters, deep cuts, diaspora gems, and underground electronics, woven together with GoldTooth’s signature flow. From Auckland, to everywhere. Tune in and strike gold.
Tonight's show was actually entirely curated by bFM's own Samuel Harmony, who sent Oto and Jaycee, not just a playlist, but a stack of CDs and Casettes that he collected while he was in Indonesia as part of the New Zealand Delegation attending AXEAN Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai to experience 2 hours of Psych rock, folk, disco and more by Southeast-Asian artists playing at the festival!
Happy New Year and with that Walao starts off strong with Co-Host Jaycee showing us demos and his top plays and discoveries from 2025. From Hyperpop to experimental, what a treat!
The profiles of candidates standing in several Māori ward elections were missing from booklets given to enrolled voters intended to inform their votes.
In response to the missing candidate profiles, Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi The Public Service Association (PSA) — representing public servants — has called on the government to move the responsibility for running these elections out of the hands of private companies and back to the Electoral Commission.
Wednesday Wire Producer Emmanuel spoke to the PSA’s acting Kaihautū Māori, Marcia Puru, to discuss the PSA's view on the missing candidate information and its implications.
News director Lillian Hanly speaks with Sina Brown-Davis about what she saw during Tongan rugby league supporters celebrations in South Auckland on Saturday. This included police removing a Tongan flag from her daughter fearing it could be used as a weapon.