Today on your bFM Breakfast: Jenn brings us in with her brand new graveyard shift; brand new tracks from far and wide; we're Artin' About as Mike drops the final clue in our Semi-Permanent prize draw; Dr. Zemke relents to the siren's call (read: it's the airhorn, gang - sorry); Johanna's got two Basement-based picks; and, pluggin their new EP and pop-up shop, a special in-studio appearance from The Most Electrifying Rap Group in Entertainment - it's the one and only SWIDT.
This week Sam takes a look at the 1997 album "Urban Hymns" from British band the Verve. "Urban Hymns" is considered to be the Verve's best album and a 90's classic album named by NME and Rolling Stone magazine as one of the best album's from the decade.
Sometimes i'm stumbling around in the dark , looking for new artists , it might seem all the old people are dead ! Usually this leads me to a list of new people who get me excited again. Listen in , find the ones you like on the net or Spotify and off we go again. Big Boy Crudup does a fine job of closing the show by shaming Elvis with his version of "Thats Alright Mama" right at the birth of Rock and Roll.
Reece King is a Tāmaki based painter, currently working from his Ōtepoti studio after being awarded the 2025 Frances Hodgkins Fellowship. His embodied practice delves into the materiality of painting, diving head first into a material lead practice—in which the painting and its fleeting figures unveil themself through the act of painting. With King looking to painting as a kind of absorption, an absorption of his surroundings that find their way into the works themself.
His current exhibition at Anna Miles, Drop Sheet Snow Angel continues in King's embodied practice. Presenting a body of paintings both acrylic on canvas, as well as the incorporation of coloured pastels. A beautiful dance between organic movement and mechanical geometric imagery. A playful and colourful world which showcases King's approach to paintings, not just as a practice, but rather a way of being in the world.
Maya had a kōrero with Reece about the show, and overall Practice.
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