Matthew Crawley and Bob Frisbee are the brains behind Outsider Sounds, the fringey-est fringe of the Fringe arts festival: bringing you free and very cool music all of next week, live from a cosy alcove in the Auckland Town Hall. Tune in to find out more.
Our guest for My Morning Mixtape this week is Scott from The Naenae Express. The Naenae Express will be doing a couple of shows this week - One of which is tonight at the Auckland Town hall for Outsider Sounds. The other is with Te Huhu this weekend at The Wine Cellar. Today Scott joins me in the studio to share some favourite songs and have a chat about them.
Dom Nola, former bFM Programme & Music Director, discusses her time at 95bFM from the mid-80s to early 90s. During her time at 95bFM Dom was also the manager of Flying Nun's NRA and later The Jean Paul Sartre Experience. She was the co-producer of the first syndicated New Zealand music radio programme called Crashhot, which aired on the B.Net, & on College Radio Stations throughout the U.S.A. Currently, Dom owns an indie label - & since 2013 became one of the Co-Hosts of the 95 BFM Jazz Show. Dom also enjoys DJing around town, & babysitting visiting rockstars. (Episode 1)
Jenna's here and today she talks about the Going West Books & Writers Festival. She also recommends you check out The Commercial Hotel by John Summers. It gives a classic sense of small town New Zealand, says Jenna, so if you enjoy something smart, funny and nostalgic give it a read! Whakarongo mai!
Content Warning: This Long Player discusses addiction, abuse and mental health. Listener discretion isadvised.
Nahbo is the solo project of Pōneke-based artist, Taranaki Ah Young-Grace. They've released their debut album, 'Ruptured', and they chat to Jess about several tracks from this release. They share their experience with alcholism, Jazz School, and their enjoyment of Bojack Horseman and Bro'Town.
Tracklist: Figure
Slow Down
Herstory
Wide Eyed
Wrinkle
Friends, Romans, and local theatre-makers, listen in to Alice's community notice board of some super cool opportunities about town! Submissions for Basement Theatre's Ideas in Residence and Ahurei Mōwaho ō Tāmaki Makaurau(the Auckland Fringe Festival) close TOMORROW (Wednesday 20 April). Also, if you're a budding playwright or just have some ideas steeping in your brain juice, check out what Playmarket has to offer! Phew! Lots of stuff, cheers Alice!
It's a long weekend and we have all kinds of impressive guests in town and we have two of them on the show. Joining regular hosts @soul_scourer and @KirkJames13 is Tairāwhiti's Cass AKA Cassawarrior, whose mix today traverses Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, French Guiana, Benin, with an eye-wateringly deep and grooving mix. In the final hour, latest official member of the Swap Meet crew is Campbell Ngata, who delivers a mix across all the medically recognised musical erogenous zones: boogie, disco, and soul!
Hour 1: “reflections/instincts not able to be definitely ascertained or trusted”
Hour 2: Artist profile of Pōneke based multi-disciplinary artist Mo H. Zareei, otherwise known as mHz (@milli_hertz). It includes compositions from Form (2019), Function (2020), sometime after two, somewhere else (2020), and Earth’s Shadow (2021). Recorded for and broadcast on AFM in February, 2021.
Tracklist:
Focusing Fatigue - Delusive Tongue Shifts
THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LISTENING - VENT
Untiled (To Describe You) - Space Afrika
Fear In Reverse - Dedekind Cut
Depart - Jason Van Wyk
Stay - Jason Van Wyk
Resistor - M. Geddes Gengras
Undefined - Yann Novak & Richard Chartier
Limbo Town - Robert Crouch
Salene's here to talk about the scariest thing in town - the state of our renter's protection laws. Whakarongo mai nei for her advice on renter privacy, fixed term contracts, and raising rents. You can also check out these other helpful resources:
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