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There's an adolescent flavour to the show today, with music spanning breezy and bittersweet to grungy angst, and a brand new single from Roy Irwin. Thursday host Emma Gleason also talks to director Stella Reid about her short film Stage Challenge, screening as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival, about the complex, creative and cooked extra-EXTRA-curricular activity.
Playlist
French For Rabbits - The Overflow
Ultravox - Vienna
Sonic Boom, Spectrum - True Love Will Find You In The End
for todays tunes I kept it pretty for a sunny day, for Fancy New Band I had Salem Māhia come in to play some beautiful tunes. Thanks to The Tuning Fork!
A bevvy of mid-winter music to lift the mood, including brand new tracks from Georgia Knight and The Circling Sun, plus some classics from the vault like Dam Native, Dimmer and Enigma (cringe or cool?). Listen in for some advice on how to see the New Zealand International Film Festival.
For this weeks Fancy New Band we were lucky to welcome CAITLIN into the studio as she finishes her last show of her nation wide tour!
CAITLIN is a Te Waipounamu-born, Ōtautahi-based indie-pop singer-songwriter who has been on a roll this year! Today she played 'Wash' and 'Tied' which are both off her newest EP Guardrails!
Sola Rosa’s Andrew Spraggon talks to Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason about his latest record, In The Mids, and imminent album tour. It kicks off in Auckland on Friday May 22 at Double Whammy, before travelling to Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Christchurch, New Plymouth and Wellington. Expect live interpretations of the album's tracks and reworked music from his extensive archive, plus (excitingly) an audio-visual element. Tickets are available here.
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. His 2018 book on Palestinian resistance movements, Hamas Contained, was shortlisted for a Palestine book award.
His coming-of-age memoir, Fire in Every Direction, was published late last year. Described by Isabella Hammad, author of Enter Ghost, as “moving and generous”, it spans Beirut, Amman, and London while remaining distinctly Palestinian.
Caeden caught up with Tareq ahead of the Auckland Writers Festival this week, where he will be speaking.
For Fancy New Band today Huia had Moonwoven come into the studio!
Moonwoven Is a genre/gender bending local band, they switch instruments and their sound depending on each song. Today on Fancy New Band we were able to have a taste of three tracks off of their upcoming ep that was anounced on the show !
A year on from publishing his bestselling novel 1985, author and poet Dominic Hoey chats to Emma Gleason about what it's like being a working writer in Aotearoa, as well as what he's got planned for the Auckland Writers Festival. Find all his events here.
Laura Vincent, the award-nominated author of Hoods Landing, chats to Emma Gleason about the success of her debut novel and what she's doing for the Auckland Writers Festival. Find her events here.
Actor and comedian Courtney Eggleton drops by the 95bFM studio ahead of her performances at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. She and Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason discuss funny business, serious acting — including why you should go to drama school — and East Auckland. (Tāmaki is a small town.) We also find out what to expect from Courtney's new show Delicate Flowers, which is billed as an "amalgamation of your worst nightmares and your hottest wet dreams". It's on at Q Theatre Cellar on May 21 and 22. Tickets here.
Today we had Olivia Reeves come in for Fancy New Band!
Olivia Reeves Is a young independent indie/rock artist from Tāmaki Makaurau who has worked her way through the competition sphere; Winning solo/duo for New Found Sound and being a two time finalist for Play It Strange!
Her set today was unlike anything else we've heard from her as she leans into are more heavy yet catchy guitar sound.
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