Camp mother Kat Saunders and Street Chant's Billie Rogers drop by to talk to us about Girls Rock! Camp Aotearoa - an international initiative that the pair are helping establish in NZ which aims to unite young women within the confidence, empowerment and general kickass-dom of creating their own music. Up to 40 campers aged between 12-17 will take over MAINZ next January... and you can help amplify them all the way to eleven.
Check out their Boosted page and get involved HERE.
Documentary director Pietra Brettkelly drops in (choosing bFM over The Oscars™, hah) to talk about her new feature, Yellow Is Forbidden, the story of fashion designer Guo Pei and her rise from Cultural Revolution China to independent Haute Couture threat. Penelope Noir, 95bFM's resident Fashun expert, reviews Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, a documentary on the notorious titular Ms. Vivienne that once had the Westwood family's co-operation... but now, upon release, does not. What went wrong?
While the Health Select Committee is finalising its report on the Medicinal Cannabis Government Bill as we speak, the National Party has announced its intention to drop its support, instead putting a member’s bill in the ballot under MP Shane Reti’s name. National Party Leader Simon Bridges said he would not support an “un thought-through bill”, even though the opposition stood for the government bill in its first reading.
I talked to the Chris Fowlie, the spokesperson of the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and asked whether he was surprised by National’s support withdrawal, and what it meant for the future.
Luke (Disasteradio, Eyeliner) has just teamed up with electronic composer Donovan Hikaru for their joint soundtrack to new video game Marbloid that dropped at the end of 2018. Luke will also be performing as Disasteradio with comedian Tim Batt at their Space Couch show tomorrow night at Auckland's Basement Theatre. Today we had Luke up to discuss all of those things and more while listening to some of his favourite songs!
Eddie from Liquor King joins Jonny & Big Hungry to make them a delicious Ramos Gin Fizz. Complete with some history on the inventor of this particular cocktail, Henry C. Ramos. The drink itself is really easy to make, and is an interesting combination of flavours and textures.
Into a shaker add all of the following ingredients:
With finance minister Grant Robertson announcing billions of dollars to combat the effects of Covid-19 and the subsequent recession, some have seen this as an opportunity to change the way live, work and interact with our planet. Bronwyn spoke to Amanda Larsson from Greenpeace about their proposed Green Covid Response, which urges the government to invest this money into clean transformative industries and uplifting marginalised communities.
No doubt you have seen the stories about the positive impacts on the climate as a result of a world under rāhui. Whether it be pollution levels in New York reduced by nearly 50%, or a 40% drop in coal use by China's six largest power plants, the global pandemic has curbed carbon emissions in ways that climate activists have been trying unsuccessfully to do for decades. However in the long term, the International Energy Agency warns that Covid-19 could cause a slowdown in world’s clean energy transition. Bronwyn began by asking Amanda how we can ensure pollution levels don't just bounce back once the pandemic is over.
There is currently an online petition calling for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to adopt the Green Covid Response, with a goal of 10,000 signatures.
The very first isolation edition of Cocktail Corner! Covid-19 may have stopped nearly everything else on planet earth, but it won't get in the way of Cocktail Corner.
Gwilym from Glengarry's & Big Hungry phone it in to make drinks with what they have at home.
Big Hungry's Recipe
1 x Booze to taste
1 x Juice to taste
Method: Add to ingredients to glass + good luck
Now for the real deal...
Gwilym's Recipe: Plum & Yuzu Ricky
45 ml x Bourbon
1/2 a black plum
East Imperial Yuzu Lemonade
Lemon wedge
Method:
Cut up half a plum, drop into a tall glass. Add bourbon and muddle together. Fill glass with ice & stir. Top up with Yuzu lemonade & garnish with lemon wedge!
Head to glengarrywines.co.nz for a whole load of Cocktail ideas & cocktail kits with everything you need to make it at home.
E tuituia ana te raarangi uiui o te rangi nei e ngaa kaupapa ohanga. This Sunday's interviews are connected by themes of economy as Heidi catches up with Hannah Valentine, Hana Pera-Aoake and Tao Wells in succession. Hannah Valentine's show 'Interference' at Visions gallery takes Argo Floats - devices for collecting data on our our oceans for the purpose of healing them, but do they avoid doing their own kinds of damage? Hana Pera-Aoake chat's with Heidi about David Graeber's mysterious sudden passing, the arbitrariness of the monetary legal systems that the whole world allows to run it, and we put a call out for her initiative under Kei te Pai Press for book donations for the OOtautahi Women's Prison. Drop any great books you want to share with women who've wound up imprisoned to Enjoy Gallery, Blue Oyster or Strange Goods by the end of the week please! Finally Tao Wells continues the kaupapa of questioning why we've all accepted the current status quo by telling us a little about his social practice and thinking. There's barely time to scratch the surface here, but the skin is broken, it's up to listeners to rakuraku haere - keep scratching it. The world could be so different.
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