It’s been a big year for Melodownz. Things really started snowballing around the release of his Avontales EP and since then it seems like he’s become an omnipresent force. Which is just a fancy way of saying he’s popping up everywhere, whether it’s on the Laneway line up, or performing at a gallery opening at the Art Gallery, or he’s on David Dallas’ 64 Bars series or on the German ‘Colours’ series. He still finds time to feature on other tracks and visit us here on Freak The Sheep.
Producer Leonard Powell is currently out of town in the Coromandel, however like all of the hardworking news team at 95bFM, he didn't let distance get in the way of a good story.
This is his report on the parking machines at Hot Water Beach.
Mike doesn't eat red meat, but that's not going to get in the way of a good American BBQ hootenanny. Also featuring: micheladas; British Marmite; and the return of sourdough toast.
The health of the mother while pregnant is being found to affect the heath of the unborn child in lasting ways all the time. Clare's research in this area involves supplementing healthy fats, in particular conjugated linoleic acid (or CLA), in the diets of obese female rats with an aim to increasing metabolic function and decreasing weight gain in their offspring. As worldwide obesity worsens, could the findings within Clare's research one day help human mothers?
Tracey is at Rātana today so we spoke with her this morning while she was on the way there, she was driving Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and they’d stopped to get coffee in Levin. Lillian Hanly started by asking how it would work when Peters steps up to be Prime Minister.
What makes a way of dressing take over as a subculture's uniform? And why on earth did the likes of punk band Proud Scum (and Karen Walker) choose to replicate the the jumpers of Donald Duck canon bank robbers The Beagle Brothers?
Bronwyn Bent is a co-director of The Race, a play by the Hobson Street Theatre Company in association with the Auckland City Mission, that is on as part of the Auckland Fringe Festival. It looks at the way racism affects those experiencing homelessness in Aotearoa and wants to spark a discussion that reminds people that ‘homeless don’t mean hopeless’. Lillian Hanly spoke with Bent before opening night tomorrow night and started by asking what the play was about.
One of Tāmaki Makaurau's most treasured gems is offering you the chance to farewell summer the right way. John Sutton's in studio to lay down allll that's going down at Silo Park this month - prepare for films, drinks and streetfood galore, all kicking off tonight with Taika's incredible mainstream debut, Thor: Ragnarok.
On Dear Science with AUT’s Allan Blackman we talk about Stephen Hawking, platypus milk, and "unlearning".
We have a story about a Ngā Tapuwae haka that went viral on the internet toward the end of last year about the way the students felt about the misrepresentation of south auckland, Lillian Hanly spoke with Hamuera Kotuku Maika who composed it.
Wire Worry Week is back and we’re looking into how the government wants us to be Smokefree by 2025. Lisa Boudet has looked into anti-smoking campaigns and whether they are efficient and Leah Garcia-Purves looks at the cost of quitting.
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