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Final show of 2025! Thanks so much for lending me your taringas this year. It's an honour and a privilege to have this slot and I enjoy all your thoughts and opinions <3
A chill chose today with new music from Martin Sagadin and The Phoenix Foundation, 95bFM listener requests (M by The Cure) and plenty of ideas for how to spend your December.
my life giver, the person who's vagina i cam out of, my māmā michelle ward, joins me on morning glory this morning! a special show featuring...shout outs to twizel area school and our brother cam, kōrero about the best train line in nz that ever existed the fairlie flyer (rest in peace babes), nz bangers from the nz songbook cd, reverance for a&p shows, educating the people on the 1974 ōtautahi commonwealth games and some nice te wahi pounamu hospitality!
piet tuinder joins me as always for out weekly segment "me and all my homies love native manu" to this week talk about the tūturiwhatu/the dotterel! whakarongo mai nei e te iwi!
Daphne Walker - Haere Mai (Song of Welcome) [with Bill Wolfgramm & His Islanders]
Te Tira Waiata o Te Pukawai feat. Pere Wihongi, Tuakoi Ohia, Kaaterama Pou, Metotagivale Schmidt-Peke, Awhimai Fraser, Elias Ashby, Piripi Gordon & Ricky-Lee Tapuni-Mitai - Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi
Ronan Hardiman - Lord of the Dance (With Taps)
Patea Maori Club - Poi E
The Muttonbirds - Dominion Road
The Phoenix Foundation - Vampire Class
Sword II - Sentry
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice - No Pigs
Dave Dobbyn & Herbs - Slice of Heaven
Picasso Trio - The Fairlie Flyer
Dragon - Are You Old Enough
Fred Dagg - Gumboots
Hawera Highland Pipe Band - Fyne Thyme Medley
Fat Freddy's Drop - Roady
Bic Runga - Get Some Sleep
The Fourmyula - Nature
Scribe - Not Many
Steve Allen - Join Together
The Exponents - Christchurch (In Cashel St I Wait)
This Morning glory was a packed one ! Huia started the show off with some pretty tunes that later blended into sounds of jazz, indie, and rock. On the agenda of this morning was Fancy New Band with Greer Castle who came up to play from Poneke! Later on we had Play It Strange Finalist Betty Shen who came in for a guest interview! Brought to you by Nz On Air
This week, Thursday host Emma Gleason was joined by Gisborne teen Salem Māhia, who won first place in the Play It Strange 2025 National Songwriting Competition with ‘A Girl Named Abigail’. He tells Emma how he got into music and what it was like being part of the Play It Strange programme (you can donate to the charitable trust's mahi here.)
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 !
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.
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.
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.
Mim Jensen joins Emma Gleason in the studio ahead of her Whammy gig tonight to discuss her new album The Muse, the healing properties of songwriting, and finding yourself through heartbreak. As a special treat, Mim plays two songs live in the bFM studio: Track Star and The Mask. Catch her nationwide tour in Auckland May 7, Christchurch May 29 and Dunedin May 30.
Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason chats to award-winning comedian Marshall Lorenzo ahead of his New Zealand International Comedy Festival appearances, where he'll present his new sketch show Serving Can't. The pair discuss the crushing weight of capitalism, audience etiquette and what it was like working on Drag Race Canada. Marshall's performing in Tāmaki Makaurau on May 7, 8 and 9 at Basement Theatre for the Comedy Festival, and tells us you can enjoy 20% off tickets with the code GOODCANT.
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