Rachael talked to Bianca Rocca and Toya Webb about their show 'Working Title', on at the George Fraser Gallery. Theo was in studio and played some Korean experimental music from the Bulgasari community. He also played some commentry from John Waters, the director of Multiple Maniacs.
Jenna's just read Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and highly recommends it. If Charles' work on HBO series, Westworld, isn't enough to entice you to read this book, perhaps winning the Fiction prize in the National Book Awards for 2020 will.
Liam had a chat with poets Divya Kumar & Hebe Kearney about their Winter Mini Poetry Fest, a series of poetry events taking place across different libraries across Tāmaki Makaurau throughout June.
This week the arts community has been remembering Nanette Cameron, who passed away aged 95. She's been dubbed "Aotearoa’s preeminent interior designer" by arts organisation Objectspace, "instrumental in the flourishing of interior design practice in Tāmaki Makaurau and nationally." Her passing has been met with tributes, gratitude and aroha for a woman who is described by those who met her as formidable, a sweetheart and everything in between. To hear more about her life Frances caught up with retired director of Objectspace, Philip Clarke, who was director of Objectspace when they staged the major exhibition and published the publication Nanette Cameron: Interior Design Legend in 2013.
Music can be a pretty unifying force, especially for the geographically isolated. Kiran talks to Mikey about music critic David Keenan's first novel, This Is Memorial Device, which evokes this idea while portraying a fictional post-punk band in '70s-'80s small town Scotland.
Alex picks a show Mike's had on the brain for ages - the '70s crime drama Quarry. With an antihero whose story spans the Mekong to the Mississippi, Alex gets in behind to make some bold claims of quality.
Profs Ngata and Cassawarrior have an incredible array of tunes to share, with the usual embarrassment of riches in Campbell's crate, while Cass this week delivers an astounding, soulful, shazam-defying set of music from the Southwestern African nation of Angola. Not to be missed!
Wowie! Straight out of the 70's with this one... Mini Simmons are popping in for Live and Direct. We chat about their soon to be released record, as well as it being the first vinyl release pressed in New Zealand in bloody ages mate! Catch them ripping out a few tunes live in the bFM lounge as well. Thanks to NZ On Air Music! ~ ~ ~
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