Nick catches up with Director Taratoa Stappard to talk about his debut feature film Mārama.
Stalwart of the music scene Chris Matthews (Children's Hour, This Kind of Punishment, Headless Chickens) joins Nicholas to discuss his Songwriter's Choice picks on Audio Culture.
This week in the stack we celebrate birthdays of Joe Sample and Rick James. RIP Sly Dunbar. It's forty years since Janet Jackson's Control dropped, so that's in the mix too...
Otherwise it's the usual - papering over the cracks between Brazilian boogie, Turkish psych, bit of Latin, jazz-funk, soul, whatever else made sense at the time. Three hours from the crates as usual.
Top shelf new releases are coming at us thick and fast and we are absolutely here for it! Noda & Wolfers, societeetrange, Elijah Minnelli, Birds and Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers were just a few of the fresh faves we aired. Don't worry though, there are plenty of bonafied bFM bangers sprinkled throughout as well!
David Herkt joins the show for this week's Audio Culture. This week's focus is David's recent piece about Mojo's on Queen. An iconic venue that was home to New Zealand’s first, largest, and longest-running transgender show.
Thanks to Audio Culture!
And, Folk artist Fables chats to Nick about her gorgeous new track 'Eyes Closed'.
Joel covers for HALFQUEEN while she gets ready for her set at Splore!
Chris joins us for Marijuana Media to chat all things weed news. Thanks to our mates at The Hempstore!
And Joel chats to Rosetta from Brekkie and Programme Director Molly while they pack in to the final Splore! Rosetta also chatted to Splore Festival Director John Minty earlier in the day!
Martyn Pepperell joins the show to discuss Amelia Berry's career for AudioCulture. From early days in the post-punk trio Nice Birds to Berry's award-winning work under the moniker Amamelia.
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