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First Tuesday post-Beacon Festival! What an exciting and inspirational weekend. This week I play some dance tracks and recent electronic releases from Kahn and Neek, Radiant Records, 100 Gecs and Enayet. Highlights from Beacon Festival were moktar's sunset set on the second day, and Soichi Terada on the first night! Thanks as always to The Tuning Fork and Progear Photographic.
Following Bikini Kill's show at the Powerstation, Lucia excitably plays her favourite Riot Girl tunes and, fittingly, Riot Gull from Dunedin come up to shred on Fancy New Band
Playlist
Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody
Angel Olsen - Spring
Fazerdaze - Flood Into
Sleaford Mods - So Trendy feat. Perry Farrell
Eden Burns, Christopher Tubbs - Made Of Brass (Original Mix)
On this show we play some tunes and talk about funny place names, we also shamelessly plug our upcoming show. Come to our gig this Saturday March 18th at the Wine Cellar!
I love Bladee! And sparkly music - some hi-nrg perc beats coming through today too, what an eclectic playlist. Shoutout to the listener who mentioned the Audio Culture Songwriter's Choice article by David Feauai-Afaese - aka LEAO. You can read it here - I also talked about the RNZ Amplified short by Jess Fu feat. LEAO too!
Denzel takes over the late morning hours to liven up your Thursdays with an eclectic set of tunes accompanied by some stellar chat and good nostalgic vibrations as he delves into video game soundtrack history to bring everyone’s favorite radio spot ‘video game soundtrack gems.'
Today I have my good friend in the studio, Costa Glass aka ifiwereme to perform two pieces: Two Men from the album Water Buffalo and a cover of Angel Olsen's Acrobat. We also play some sad prom songs i.e Cindy Lee, Elizabeth Fraser and Gary Numan. Thanks as always to the Tuning Fork and to the listeners for tuning in!
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.
today piet and olive talk about everyone's fav manu, te tūī! an iconic bird (also called kōkō) whose population is soaring but have really weird tongues guys look at it on youtube x
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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