Get your Saturday off to a good start with The Saturday Spring, featuring Fables forDemo Gods, and Your Gig is Showing with Scott and Rob from Matakanarama.
Let's get springin'! Today's show features Your Gig is Showing with Cullin Hearty and the who, what, where, why and when of The Others Way Festival. Plus Demo Gods with Finn Johansson and Paul Cathro.
Featuring a big bag of new music including Charlie xcx and John Cale from the soundtrack of the movie Wuthering Heights (dir. Emerald Fennell) and a nod to Neil Young's 80th birthday! (November 12th).
Kāhui St David’s is situated in the St David’s Memorial Church in Khyber Pass Road. Paul is here to tell us about some special events that are on at the venue in the run up to Christmas.
Featuring Josh Worthington-Church, conductor of the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra, discussing the upcoming Songbook Volume 4 gigs on Your Gig Is Showing. Then, Finn returns for the second part of Demo Gods and is in the studio with Navakatoa Tekela-Pule, Kenny Sterling, and Miss Whenua with the completed demo. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring Jordan discussing the Punks For Palestine Fundraiseron Your Gig Is Showing. Then, Babe Martin is back for her second part of Demo Gods with Finn.
Kaitlyn is on this week and is joined in studio by Darryn Harkness to discuss From Scratch Fundraiser For Medical Support To Gaza for Your Gig Is Showing. Plus, Finn Johansson is up for Demo Gods too, to talk us through his upcoming episode with Navakatoa Tekela-Pule and Kenny Sterling. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Tame Impala - Loser
The Veils - Mortal Wound
AW - Thief of Joy
Big Thief - Shark Smile
MJ Lenderman & This Is Lorelei - Dancing in the Club (MJ Lenderman Version)
Our Beloved Ditch - Backgammon
black midi - bmbmbm
Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg
Geese - Cobra
Bic Runga - It's Like Summertime
Pulp - Got To Have Love
DC Maxwell - Golden Light
Black Milk - The Matrix ft Pharoahe Monch & Sean Price
Urban Pacifika - One
Troy Kingi - Isn't How I Remember (feat. SWIDT)
Beastwars - The Storm
The Strokes - The End Has No End
ONONO - Think About U
Magdalena Bay - Second Sleep
Melody's Echo Chamber - Daisy (feat. El Michels Affair)
Karyn is back! Featuring a kōrero with Suzanne Lynch about her new book Yesterday When I Was Young and the return of Demo Gods with Finn. Whakarongo mai nei!
Finn Johansson’s more than a little buzzed to unveil the song he'’s been working on with Amamelia for Demo Gods. The prompt was "The Fine Art of Restraint” and Amelia Berry joins us from Melbourne to talk about the process. Hear the demo here!
This week George reckons the early 2000s turned out to be far more mysterious than he expected, thanks in part to Lazy Lane and the track Strange Dreams.
Finn Johansson’s been busy over the break lining up his Demo Gods. Amamelia is his latest collaborator and she’s picked "The Fine Art of Restraint’ as the prompt. In Pt. I we check out a few gems from Amelia’s back catalogue.
On a rainy Tamaki day we’re transported to the islands of the Pacific with Sefa Inari, the Director of the Pacific Dance Festival – on this month and showcasing the finest dancers from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.
Finn Johansson Zooms in from Queenstown where he’s on tour with Fables, while this week’s Demo God Karl Sölve Steven joins Karyn in the studio. The prompt Karl chose was “BPM” and the resulting demo is titled Bad People Music.
Finn Johansson gives us a potted musical history of Karl Sölve Steven before unveiling the finished demo next week, with the prompt being “BPM”. Tracks from The Drab Doo-Riffs, Supergroove, Queen Neptune and one from Karl’s highly successful movie soundtrack work.
Karyn talks with author Richard Langston about his new biography on the band that helped launch the Dunedin Sound – “The Clean: In The Dreamlife You Need A Rubber Soul”. Richard’s in the middle of a short book tour which comes to Auckland Wednesday 15th April at Flying Nun Records. (spoiler alert: Clean live music included!)