It's a Drive Island! Milly and Tuva'a broadcast from the Ellen Melville Centre - listen back for great live music from Tusekah and From Outside, brought to you by NZ On Air Music(and biscuit commentary thanks to Kev).
Finn returns for Pt II of his first Demo God for 2026: comic artist, musician and teacher, Indira Neville. Indira chose “Recycling Only” as her prompt, and one Tuesday last week they cooked up the demo of the same name. Listen to it here!
Our Demo God this week comes from a long line of bad backs. Lead singer and vocalist for Soft Bait Josh Hunter has taken up the challenge to collaborate with Finn in the van. No prompt has been chosen yet, but Finn suggests Josh try... a samba.
On Friday last week, myself (Frances), Joe and Liam jumped in the car and drove down the West Coast to WOMAD.
WOMAD is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance. This year saw a line up with the likes of Youssu N’Dor, Avantdale Bowling Club, Sampa the Great and a whole bunch more.
There was also a range of food, market stalls, and workshops. Interviews were taking place with writers, vendors were selling salt grinders, and local chefs came together to sell food from Venezuelan Arepas to Hungarian Langos.
After pitching some tents in the mud, we grabbed our mics and headed out to enjoy the festival and talk to the people of WOMAD.
Crawley chats to Goodspace about their new single You Only Get What You Leave from their upcoming album Let's Talk About Death out on 5th October, as well as the album installation at Lim Chhour titled VENDOR running all week long from September 28th. Go check it out!
GoldTooth chats to HALFQUEEN about FLOSSIN, happening this Saturday at East Street Hall. The gig is in support of ActionStation's campaign Dental For All, which seeks to get free dental care to all those in Aotearoa. Whakarongo mai nei to learn about the kaupapa behind this campaign and all the artists and vendors putting mahi into raising awareness around discrepencies in access to healthcare. GoldTooth also jumps in the mix to get you in the mood for dancing to sets from some of the finest selectors from across Te-Ika-a-Maui. The lineup for FLOSSIN features bFM DJs Leon Aoki, BBYFACEKILLA, and AJ Honeysuckle, as well as Warren Duncan, Tamatha Paul (the MP!), and Kaiviti. Faves of local gastronomers Matua Murupaenga and Pici will be providing kai throughout the day too. Head along!
This week on Dear Science, our expert Allan Blackman chatted to us about genetic fingerprints, mobile phones and brain cancer, and foods that can make you live longer.
Much of our infrastructure and architecture has been constructed by able-bodied people, with little regard for those with different mobility needs.
Accessibility for differently abled people is usually a secondary consideration, with wheelchair ramps and similar accessibility measures sometimes being crudely installed at the back of buildings as a quickfire measure to comply with building accessibility requirements, leaving those with different mobility needs often feeling like second class citizens
Producer Oto spoke to Bill McKay, a senior lecturer of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, to talk about universal design, the idea that buildings and infrastructure should be constructed in a way that is accessible to people of ALL mobility needs and capabilities.
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