Ōtepoti band Pearly* were in town for the Eyegum Scenic Tour and made a pitstop in the bFM studio for a killer Friday Live set. Brought to you by NZ On Air Music, with thanks to our mates at McLeod's Brewery.
Campbell digs Japan, and he's just back from a ten day jaunt of well curated record stores, incredible food and many greetings of "Arigato gozaimasu!"
His set this month is full of raw, soulful heaters and cosmic jazz-funk that makes you screw your face up like you accidentally ate the ball of wasabi along with your sashimi. All time Swap Meet fave Garfield Fleming’s 'Don’t Send Me Away' still hits like heartbreak on vinyl, that pleading vocal over lush orchestration is pure modern soul gold. And then there’s Mystic Harmony’s Lovers Rock take on The Jones Girls' 'Nights Over Egypt' deep, spiritual, and epic. Add Freedom Suite 'Come Closer' to that category: a rare groove Trini disco dub with the kind of bassline that makes you look around the room for someone else who heard that. The funkier edges really pop off with Wild Fire 'The Dealer' another Trinidadian gem that’s psych-funk with fuzz guitar and heavy attitude.
Campbell keeps it moving with the glistening disco of Chantal Curtis ‘Get Another Love’ to Booker Newberry III’s ‘Love Town’, there’s that roller-skate-ready shimmer. Then off to Brasil with Alma Brasileira ‘Peixeiro’ a choro inflected samba and Dom Salvador’s ‘Barumba’, all syncopated rhythms and raw, earthy joy. On the modern tip, Cool Affair ‘Motoric Patterns (Kaidi Tatham Mix)’ slides in with some proper bruk energy: Kaidi doing what he does best. Mr Ngata has the jazzheads covered too - and we also gotta keep pumping current faves The Circling Sun!
Jack Glacier is up in the studio for a kōrero with Rosetta and Milly about his show Flaura - which you can catch Saturdays 11pm-1am on the mighty b. Jack also shares a couple of epic new tracks from the Flaura compilation, set to drop on vinyl later this year. Whakarongo mai nei!
Our Beloved Ditch, the Manawatū-renaissance post-folk trio, are releasing their debut EP this Friday 12 Sept 2025! After a couple of years spent developing their sound in live settings, the band have finally captured their unique songwriting in the studio at The Stomach. Austin and Amelia from the band join Rosetta and Milly on air for a kōrero. Whakarongo mai nei!
BENT - the Te Waka Tuhura Elam School of Art’s queer collective, are set to open an exhibition very soon, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Elam’s first queer exhibition, Queer Pictures, back in 1985.
To discuss this upcoming exhibition, Radio Mother co-host, Joel, spoke to Kaitlyn Merriman and Rosa Turley, who are both Master of Fine Arts students, and are involved in the background-side of the exhibition, about the exhibition, and what people should expect.
E.U.G., what does it stand for? Whakarongo mai nei to find out and also catch a blistering set by the Pōneke post-punk quartet before they head up Karangahape Road to support Goya on the Auckland leg of the tour across the motu.
Oto and Jaycee chatted with Jefferson Chen, aka Goodspace, about his upcoming single - 'Easier Said than Done' and the PEDAL installation he set up leading up to the release.
Jaycee went to the Installation on the first day of it's launch and talked to some of the attendees as well.
Our lovely mates from Care HQ, nurses Nickie and Charlotte are back up in the studio for a kōrero about sexual health! Rosetta and Milly ask the team about some common sexual health and STI-related myths, and we set the record straight with some facts. Whakarongo mai nei!
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