Kia ora whānau, thanks for tuning in to Tuesday Morning Glory. Two key words today: psychedelia and electronica – we cycle through the folky goodness of Dream Sitch and Snowy Band before the swirling ambience of Cousin and Yu Su later in the show.
Happy Friday! E whai ake nei, coming up on your Rāmere Brekkie with Rosetta and Milly: Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Milly had a kōrero with Sister Bliss of Faithless about Synthony, and Cam is up for From The Crate. Whakarongo mai nei!
This week's show focuses on The Chills' compilation album Kaleidoscope World, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Features tracks from Brave Words and other Chills-related artists, such as the Able Tasmans, The Verlaines. Also features songs from fellow Dunedin Sound artists The Clean, The Bats and Tall Dwarfs, as well as songs from Joy Division, Beach Boys, Pavement and Yo La Tengo!
This Morning Glory Huia kept the vibes in a good place. On this show the weather always seems to affect what Huia decides to play, this friday was sunny yet had a cold crispyness to the air; Because of this, the tracks on the show gravitated towards a more shoegaze and singer-songwriter feel.
For Fancy New Band today Huia had Katie-Lee come in and play a beautiful accoustic set.
Kitty Lin, founder of Vegan Restaurant, Green Time, speaks to Kelly about sustainability and food creativity. The restaurant is involved with two events this week, celebrating culture and food creativity with a climate conscious and vegan twist.
The first is known as 'the Night of Sevens', or Chinese Valentines Day, celebrates the Legend of 'The Cowheard and the Weaver Girl' where the seventh daughter of the heavens and a human boy fell so deeply in love they gave up their heavenly and worldly duties. This festivity is being held as part of American Express Auckland Restaurant Month. Kelly asked first, what traditions they are bringing to this celebration.
This week, our resident Greendesk producer Jack Marshall learnt about the pressure that climate change puts on coastal areas in particular. He spoke to Professor Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters & Professor of Economics at Victoria University. Noy and his co authors have released a paper looking at how the Earthquake commission is already tackling the damage caused by climate change. To start, Noy gave an overview of what exactly their paper has looked at.
Last year the government announced its plan to plant a billion trees by 2028 as part of offsetting our carbon footprint as a country. As great as that is however, the sudden demand for land on which to plant these trees has had unforeseen effects on NZ farmers.
Andy Scott is an ex-farmer and now a real estate agent in the Wairarapa. We were put in contact with him by the new lobby group “Fifty Shades of Green” which claim the planting incentives under the Emissions Trading Scheme, combined with changes to the Overseas Investment Act have lead to foreign investors buying up good farmland to plant trees and reap the carbon credits. These plantations tend to be pine rather than native trees, which is problematic becuase of the short life span of pine trees and their impact on our natural environment.
Scott speaks about the effect of increased land prices on farmers in his region as well as the importance of planting the right trees in the right place.
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