Featuring Your Gig Is Showing with the team at Whammy and newly formed Auckland All Ages Association, Implausible Deniability with Stella and Dear Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
The director of Semi-Permanent, Simon Velvin, drops in to the studio to talk to Mikey about rotting corpses, expensive surfboards, secret Putin screenings, and what we can expect from the NZ design event currently enjoying its fifteenth year.
We cut in, we cut out, life goes on. Fabian's calling from the Hollywood Hills today, which makes for a rocky old landline chat about Disney's (semi-disappointing) A Wrinkle in Time and Marvel's The Avengers.
Flox joins us in studio for a nice lil chat, ahead of speaking at Semi Permanent, about making art for 14 years and all the wonderful and wise things she's learnt along the way. Without giving too much away, Flox talks to Mikey about how to make it in the creative world, and takes a shot at solving Mikey's riddles. Can she outsmart Mike?
Stuart was the sales representative for the short-lived 95bFM magazine Monitor, which succeeded the mid-80s incarnation as The Book of Bifim. He went on to be the manager of such 90s bFM stalwarts as Supergroove, Semi Lemon Kola and Thorazine Shuffle, as well as founding the AK venue now kniown as the Dog's Bollix. (Episode 20, Parts 1-2 of 2)
Keria reviews, and raves about, Benedict Cumberbatch vehicle 'Patrick Melrose', a UK mini series based on the semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St. Aubyn about his life of substance abuse in New York between 1980 and the 2000s.
This weekend on FPR, we air a takeover from Naarm-based angels Tyler and Bel.
Tyler and Bel are visual artists and selectors with an unboundaried approach to sound and era. They both have shows on Mouthfull - Tyler hosts the weekly broadcast Semi-Precious, whereas Bel hosts an infrequent show titled Some Times. On Episode 306, they share two mixes - the first explores music recorded in Denmark and Sweden between 1969 - 2022; the second captures music for dance and theatre.
This week, Frances chatted to artist and Māori fibre weaver Shona Tawhiao, who has created new semi-abstract sculptural forms based on seedpods, a powerful metaphor for renewal of life forces.
Pākākano celebrates the traditional skills of raranga while proposing a new and important way at looking at weaving as its own standalone entity, challenging, exciting and inspiring. It's on at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery 03 June - 03 September 2023.
Listen back to Lucia's interview with Rich Peppiatt, director of the KNEECAPbiopic set for release in New Zealand on 24 October. The semi-fictitious film chronicles the origin of Belfast's riotous Gaelic rap trio KNEECAP. Fans of the Irish lads rejoice because they'll be making their Aotearoa debut next year at the Powerstation. Whakarongo mai nei to hear about how the film came to be and behind-the-scenes insights.
My Friends Are Home II is the second installation of a collection of Millie Dunstall and Cheska Brown’s photographic works, currently showing at Window Gallery.
Presented on window vinyl and splashed with painted buttermilk, the show sees these semi-transparent photographs depicting the artist's friends in their flats in Tāmaki Makaurau – inviting a certain intimacy and conversation between the images and the viewer themselves. Like a time capsule, the photographs carry qualities of nostalgia and sentimentality, allowing the viewer to have insight into not only what those intimate relationships look like in the artist's lives, but also their own.
Sof had a kōrero with Millie Dunstall and Cheska Brown about the show and their collaborative practice.
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