A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
30 July 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight (RNZ); 12:30 Laugh Track (RNZ); 1:05 From the World (BBC); 2:05 NZ Live; 3:05 Tall Half Backs, by Graham Hutchins (RNZ); 3:30 The Week (RNZ); 4:30 In the Balance (BBCWS); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 Voices (RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Hungry, by Victor Rodger, told by Victor Rodger; Takeaway Dog, by Norman Bilbrough, told by Matt Sunderland; The Tale of Ruby Topp, by Barbara Strong, told by Jean Betts ; Welcome Home, by Sue Gibbison, told by Phil Ward; Opposites, by Adrienne Frater, told by Julian Wilson; Planet Boring, by Michael Wilson, told by Tim Balme
===7:10 AM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
===8:10 AM. | Saturday Morning===
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A mixture of current affairs and feature interviews, until midday (RNZ)
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08:10
Alok Jha: The extraordinary story of our ordinary substance
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Kim Hill talks to British journalist, author and broadcaster Alok Jha, whose science-related topics have included the history of meteorology, climate change politics, how much we should trust scientists, and how the world might end. He will speak about his latest book, The Water Book: the Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Substance, at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016, a Nelson event for the Cawthron Institute, and Royal Society events in Auckland and Wellington.
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Alok Jha is a British journalist, author and broadcaster, whose science-related topics have included the history of meteorology, climate change politics, how much we should trust scientists, and how the world might end.
He'll be in New Zealand to speak about his latest book, The Water Book: the Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Substance, at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016 (24-28 August), a Nelson event for the Cawthron Institute (24 August), and Royal Society events in Auckland (30 August) and Wellington (31 August).
Ahead of his visit, Kim Hill gets him on the line from London.
Topics: author interview, climate, environment, science, technology, weather
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: asteroids, comets, water
Duration: 26'37"
08:40
Matt Noffs: breaking the ice
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Kim Hill talks to Matt Noffs, CEO for The Noffs Foundation, an Australian organisation that works to assist socially disadvantaged and disconnected young people, with particular expertise in the treatment of young people with drug and alcohol problems. He is the author of Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia's Methamphetamine Crisis (HarperCollins), and is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Drug Foundation to talk about health-focused and pragmatic ways of responding to drug problems.
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Matt Noffs is the CEO for The Noffs Foundation, an Australian organisation founded by his grandparents that works to assist socially disadvantaged and disconnected young people, and has particular expertise in the treatment of young people with drug and alcohol problems.
He's also the author of Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia’s Methamphetamine Crisis (HarperCollins), and is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Drug Foundation to talk about health-focused and pragmatic ways of responding to drug problems.
He joins Kim Hill in the Wellington studio.
Topics: author interview, crime, education, health, law, politics
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Tags: drugs, methamphetamine, heroin, Australia, Sydney, Germany
Duration: 20'37"
09:05
David Galler: stories of life and death
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Kim Hill talks to Dr David Galler, Intensive Care Specialist at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital for 25 years, and clinical director at Ko Awatea. He tells his story in the memoir, Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death (Allen & Unwin), and will talk about the book at the Going West festival in conversation with fellow writer and physician, Glenn Colquhoun.
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Dr David Galler has worked as an Intensive Care Specialist at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital for 25 years and is clinical director at Ko Awatea. He tells his story in the memoir Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death.
David Galler will speak about the book at the Going West festival (10 September) in conversation with fellow writer and physician Glenn Colquhoun.
Topics: author interview, health, history, inequality, language, life and society, Pacific, politics, science
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Emma Aitken, Samoa, Andrew Strawbridge, medicine, Ko Awatea, Jonathan Boston, Children's Commission, Pat Snedden, diabetes, euthanasia, Middlemore, organ donation, Auschwitz
Duration: 38'47"
09:50
Roxanne El-Hady: science and women
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Kim Hill talks to Roxanne El-Hady, who won the 2016 Young Scientist of the Year Award in the UK while on a Nuffield Research Placement at Royal Holloway, University of London, for work reconstructing rapid climate change in South Wales at the end of the last glacial period. She has returned to New Zealand for a family visit, and to share her enthusiasm for science at local schools.
Topics: climate, education, environment, science, spiritual practices, technology
Regions: Wellington Region, Canterbury
Tags: climate change, Bahai, geology, Samoa, Royal Society
Duration: 10'16"
10:10
Louise Leitch and Byron Skinner: transition and friendship
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Kim Hill talks to Christchurch director Louise Leitch, whose short film Same But Different features the true story of her husband's best friend, Byron Skinner, who transitioned from a man to a woman at age 50 after a marriage and three children. The film features in Loading Docs, the annual initiative which funds ten filmmakers to make short films (this year working on the subject of "change").
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Louise Leitch is a Christchurch director whose short film Same But Different features the true story of her husband’s best friend Byron Skinner who transitioned from a man to a woman at age 50 after a marriage and three children.
Same But Different features in Loading Docs, the annual short film initiative which funds ten filmmakers (this year working on the subject of 'change'). The series launches online on 4 August, and will also be broadcast on TVNZ ON Demand.
Topics: identity, life and society
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: transgender, friendship, films, mountaineering
Duration: 19'55"
10:35
Peter Simpson: Bloomsbury South
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Kim Hill talks to academic and author Peter Simpson, who knew and worked with many of the group of poets, writers, playwrights, painters and other artists in Christchurch who collaborated during a 20-year period to produce distinctive New Zealand art. He tells their story in Bloomsbury South: the Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 (AUP), and will speak about it at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016.
Topics: arts, author interview, books, history, identity, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region, Canterbury
Tags: A.R.D. Fairburn, Colin McCahon, Ngaio Marsh, Denis Glover, Toss Wollaston, Margaret Frankel, Charles Brasch, Allen Curnow, Rita Angus, Ursula Bethell, Leo Bensemann, sexuality, John Lehman
Duration: 28'48"
11:10
Shayne P Carter: key player
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Kim Hill talks to Dunedin musician Shayne P Carter, who has been writing, singing, and playing guitar since 1978 with Bored Games, DoubleHappys, Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He now performs under his own name, playing with Gary Sullivan (drums) and James Duncan (bass), and is about to release a new album of piano-based songs, Offsider.
He will present songs from that album and selections from his catalogue at shows in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and in October he and Don McGlashan reunite their successful double act for a ten-date tour of New Zealand.
During the interview, Shayne talks about the classical music he recently discovered, and plays works by Debussy (Children's Corner: IV - The Snow Is Dancing), Liszt (Piano Piece in A Flat Major - Funf Klavierstücke), and Chopin (Nocturne No. 2, Op. 27 in D-flat).
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Kim Hill talks to Dunedin musician Shayne P Carter, who has been writing, singing, and playing guitar since 1978 with Bored Games, DoubleHappys, Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He now performs under his own name, playing with Gary Sullivan (drums) and James Duncan (bass), and is about to release a new album of piano-based songs, Offsider.
He will present songs from that album and selections from his catalogue at shows in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and in October he and Don McGlashan reunite their successful double act for a ten-date tour of New Zealand.
During the interview, Shayne talks about the classical music he recently discovered, and plays works by Debussy (Children's Corner: IV - The Snow Is Dancing), Liszt (Piano Piece in A Flat Major - Funf Klavierstücke), and Chopin (Nocturne No. 2, Op. 27 in D-flat).
Topics: arts, history, life and society, music
Regions: Auckland Region, Otago
Tags: Chris Knox, songwriting, Claude Debussy, Franz Liszt, Graeme Downes, Mahler, Clyde, Cromwell Gorge, Dunedin, Lawrence Arabia, J.S Bach, Chopin, Don McGlashan, transport
Duration: 44'53"
11:55
Listener Feedback to Saturday Morning 30 July 2016
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Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 30 July.
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Duration: 10'52"
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8:12 Alok Jha
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Alok Jha is a British journalist, author and broadcaster, whose science-related topics have included the history of meteorology, climate change politics, how much we should trust scientists, and how the world might end. He will speak about his latest book, The Water Book: the Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Substance (Headline), at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016 (24-28 August), a Nelson event for the Cawthron Institute (24 August), and Royal Society events in Auckland (30 August) and Wellington (31 August).
8:35 Matt Noffs
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Matt Noffs is CEO for The Noffs Foundation, an Australian organisation founded by his grandparents that works to assist socially disadvantaged and disconnected young people, and has particular expertise in the treatment of young people with drug and alcohol problems. He is the author of Breaking the Ice: How We Will Get Through Australia’s Methamphetamine Crisis (HarperCollins), and is visiting New Zealand as a guest of the New Zealand Drug Foundation to talk about health-focused and pragmatic ways of responding to drug problems.
9:05 David Galler
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Dr David Galler has worked as an Intensive Care Specialist at Auckland’s Middlemore Hospital for 25 years, and is clinical director at Ko Awatea. He tells his story in the memoir, Things That Matter: Stories of Life & Death (Allen & Unwin), and will talk about the book at the Going West festival (10 September) in conversation with fellow writer and physician, Glenn Colquhoun.
9:45 Roxanne El-Hady
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Roxanne El-Hady won the 2016 Young Scientist of the Year Award in the UK while on a Nuffield Research Placement at Royal Holloway, University of London, for work reconstructing rapid climate change in South Wales at the end of the last glacial period. Born in Hamilton, raised in China and the UK, she is back in New Zealand for a family visit, and to share her enthusiasm for science at local schools.
10:05 Louise Leitch and Byron Skinner
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Louise Leitch is a Christchurch director, whose short film Same But Different features the true story of her husband’s best friend, Byron Skinner, who transitioned from a man to a woman at age 50 after a marriage and three children. The film features in Loading Docs, the annual short film initiative which funds ten filmmakers (this year working on the subject of “change”). The series launches online on 4 August, and will also be broadcast on TVNZ ON Demand.
10:35 Peter Simpson
Peter Simpson is the author of six books, a former head of English at the University of Auckland, and a graduate and former teacher at the University of Canterbury. He knew and worked with many of the group of poets, writers, playwrights, painters and other artists in Christchurch who collaborated during a 20-year period to produce distinctive New Zealand art. He tells their story in Bloomsbury South: the Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953 (AUP), and will speak about it at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival 2016.
[gallery:2313] Images from Bloomsbury South: the Arts in Christchurch 1933-1953, by Peter Simpson.
11:05 Shayne P Carter
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Dunedin musician Shayne P Carter has been writing, singing, and playing guitar since 1978 with Bored Games, DoubleHappys, Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He now performs under his own name, playing with Gary Sullivan (drums) and James Duncan (bass), and is about to release a new album of piano-based songs, Offsider. He will present songs from that album and selections from his catalogue at shows in Auckland (18 August), Wellington (19 August), Christchurch (26 August) and Dunedin (27 August). And from 14 October, he and Don McGlashan reunite their successful double act for a ten-date tour of New Zealand. You can listen here to Kim's 2010 interview with Shayne's mother, Erica Miller.
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington operator: Lianne Smith
Auckland operator: Rangi Powick
Christchurch operator: Andrew Collins
Dunedin operator: Dave Howell
Research by Infofind
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Artist: Shayne P Carter
Song: Mat
Composer: Shayne P Carter
Album: Offsider
Label: Flying Nun, 2016
Broadcast: 11:10
Artist: Simon Trpčeski
Song: Children's Corner: IV - The Snow Is Dancing
Composer: Claude Debussy
Album: Debussy: Images
Label: EMI Classics, 2008
Broadcast: 11:20
Artist: Leslie Howard
Song: Piano Piece in A Flat Major (Funf Klavierstücke)
Composer: Franz Liszt
Album: Liszt - The Late Pieces
Label: Hyperion, 1990
Broadcast: 11:35
Artist: Artur Rubenstein
Song: Nocturne No. 2, Op. 27 in D-flat
Composer: Chopin
Album: The Chopin Collection – The Nocturnes
Label: RCA Red Seal, 1965
Broadcast: 11:45
Artist: Shayne P Carter
Song: I Know Not Where I Stand
Composer: Shayne P Carter
Album: Offsider
Label: Flying Nun, 2016
Broadcast: 11:55
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Exploring the things we use and consume. Some content may offend (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up 30 July 2016
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Foley artists, the sound of silence, frogs and noise, and China's plans to dominate the entertainment industry.
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Duration: 49'15"
12:15
Foley artists
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Foley is the art of recreating sounds that then get added back into films or TV shows or video games to make them sound better. Amy Barber and Jonathan Bruce work as Foley mixers, editors and artists at Bespoke Post in Ellerslie in Auckland. You'll have seen (or more likely heard) their work on Taika Waititi's recent film The Hunt For the Wilderpeople and also on TV shows like Ash vs Evil Dead, Spartacus and Shameless.
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Foley is the art of recreating sounds that then get added back into films or TV shows or video games to make them sound better.
These aren't just everyday sounds either; feet crunching through snow, horses hooves, crackling fires, or the sound of a key turning in a lock. No, the accomplished Foley artist has to rise to any challenge and find the perfect noise to accompany even the most obscure act; from an enthusiastic disembowelling (spoiler: dampened chamois leather) to gun noises to something called an 'alien pod embryo expulsion' (which can be accomplished with canned dog food, apparently!).
Foley is named after Jack Donovan Foley (1891-1967) an erstwhile stuntman and semi-pro baseball player who found his audio skills in high demand when Hollywood made the transition from silent movies to sound and the 'talkies'. His skills in performing sound effects live and matching these to pictures during a film's post-production were used in films including Show Boat, Dracula and Spartacus, and formed the basis for a whole new industry. Foley, who once estimated that he'd walked 5000 miles in the studio doing footsteps, described the idiosyncrasies of some of the famous actors he worked with:
"Rock Hudson is a solid stepper; Tony Curtis has a brisk foot; Audie Murphy is springy; James Cagney is clipped; Marlon Brando soft; John Saxon nervous."- Jack Foley
Foley sound done well should go totally unnoticed. A viewer has a seamless experience of watching images on a screen, and seeing them matched perfectly with appropriate noises and sound effects. But when Foley goes rogue, that's when true legends are made!
Amy Barber and Jonathan Bruce work as Foley mixers, editors and artists in Auckland and you'll have seen (or more likely heard) their work on Taika Waititi's recent film The Hunt For the Wilderpeople and also on TV shows like Ash vs Evil Dead, Spartacus and Shameless. They take us behind the scenes to show us how good Foley is made at their studios, Bespoke Post in Ellerslie in Auckland.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: sounds, films, Foley, sound effects
Duration: 28'38"
12:45
Frog sounds
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Kirsten Parris of The University of Melbourne is the author of Ecology of Urban Environments (Wiley). She loves frogs and is studying how the noises we humans make affect frog habitats, and even the future of some species.
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Kirsten Parris of The University of Melbourne is the author of Ecology of Urban Environments (Wiley). She loves frogs and is studying how the noises we humans make affect frog habitats, and even the future of some species.
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Tags: urban, noises, sounds, frogs, animals, habitats, ecosystems
Duration: 6'10"
12:50
China shapes global entertainment industry
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Once the preserve of Hollywood, Walt Disney and the US, China is having a massive and growing influence on the entertainment industry; in areas like film, TV, video games and theme parks. Adam Minter of Bloomberg's been looking at the way China's buying up some of the world's biggest entertainment companies.
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'The reset button is being pressed on global culture. And it's China's turn to play.' Adam Minter from Bloomberg
Once the preserve of Hollywood, Walt Disney and the US, China has a massive and growing influence on the entertainment industry; in areas like film, TV, video games and theme parks.
'The Chinese government is keen to build up its 'soft power' to compete against the globally dominant cultural exports of the U.S. But there's just one problem. After years of trying, China has yet to develop its own popular versions of Mickey Mouse, the Marvel Comics heroes and the other globally-known characters and products that allow Disney to market 'Disneyland' as an immersive, universal experience.' Adam Minter
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Tags: China, Alibaba, film, TV, Tencent, World of Warcraft, Wanda, entertainment, Hollywood, video games, gaming, Cinema
Duration: 10'28"
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===1:10 PM. | Music 101===
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The best songs, music-related stories, interviews, live music, industry news and music documentaries from NZ and the world
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14:10
Introducing: Peach Milk
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Peach Milk introduces her song 'Superambi'
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Name of project: Peach Milk
Real name/s: Madison Eve
Age (of project): 3 years (in secret) and 7 months publicly performing.
Hometown: Auckland
Associated acts: Careerwolf, for Jay and the Dream Boat
Musical guilty pleasure: Justin Bieber (but i'm not guilty about it at all)
Formative musical experience: Seeing Kraftwerk live on my dads shoulders in the Boiler Room, age 8.. That was the defining moment that I knew I wanted to create electronic music.
Music Details
Artist: Madison Eve
Song: Superambi
Composer: M. Eve
Album: Finally
Label: Peach Milk
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Introducing, Peach Milk, Giorgio Moroder
Duration: 6'11"
16:30
Tom Odell in Session
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Tom Odell performs 'Magnetised' and 'Concrete' live in session.
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Young singer songwriter Tom Odell has just released his second album 'Wrong Crowd'. In New Zealand on a whirlwind promo tour he stopped in to perform 'Magnetised' and 'Concrete' in session with Zac Arnold.
Music Details
Artist: Tom Odell
Songs: Magnetised, Concrete
Composer: T. Odell, R. Nowels
Album: RNZ Music Recording
Label: RNZ Music Recording
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: Tom Odell, Elton John, live session
Duration: 16'50"
13:00
PNC: Still Jonah 95
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PNC talks to Sam Wicks about taking inspiration from NZ sporting legends on The Luke Vailima EP.
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With production handled by Patrick Hawkins, Matt Miller, Fire & Ice and Nick “41” Maclaren, PNC’s latest release, The Luke Vailima EP, is bookended by ‘Sonny Bill 04’ and ‘Jonah 95’, cuts that throw back to the years that the preternaturally gifted Sonny Bill Williams and Jonah Lomu made their grand entrances.
It’s not the first time PNC has paid tribute to SBW. When Sonny Bill switched codes to trade punches with Charles Tillman III in February 2012, PNC supplied his entrance music, a flip of Drake’s ‘The Motto’.
As well as being a lifelong student of rap music, PNC is a dedicated armchair sportsman who’s peppered tracks throughout his catalogue with references to sporting giants of different codes. As PNC explains, athletic feats serve as fuel for his penmanship.
“You kind of like always really admire someone when you know you could never do what they’re doing but they’re doing it at such a high level… I almost get more inspiration from listening to sports guys and their process for how they approach their craft more so than even musicians, you know. They really dedicate their lives to their craft, so I think it parallels really easily.”
Samuel Luke Vailima Hansen aka PNC speaks with Sam Wicks about The Luke Vailima EP.
Music Details
Artist: PNC
Song: All I See, Sonny Bill 04, Hova Song, Jonah 95
Composer: S.Hansen
Album: The Luke Vailima EP
Label: Private
Artist: PNC
Song: Hova Song feat. Pieter T
Composer: S.Hansen, P.Tuhoro
Album: The Luke Vailima EP
Label: Private
Artist: PNC
Song: SBW Theme
Composer: S.Hansen
Album: Single
Label: Private
Related Stories
PNC: The Codes
Ten Years of Dirty
PNC: Man On Wire
Topics: music, sport
Regions: Auckland Region, Manawatu
Tags: PNC, rap, hip hop, Jonah Lomu, Sonny Bil Williams
Duration: 10'20"
13:00
The Kills: Ash & Ice
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Indie rock duo The Kills talk to Sam Wicks about their rock'n'roll lineage.
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Formed in 2000 by Florida-born frontwoman Alison Mosshart and Buckinghamshire guitar slinger Jamie Hince, The Kills have been honing their impeccably dressed trans-Atlantic indie rock across five studio albums.
The most recent is Ash & Ice, which The Kills were touring when they played Auckland on Thursday night, their numbers bolstered by two additional players.
Sam Wicks joins Jamie Hince and an under-the-weather Alison Mosshart backstage at The Powerstation.
Music Details
Artist: The Kills
Song: Heart of a Dog, Doin It To Death, Siberian Nights, Impossible Tracks, Hard Habbit to Break
Composer: A.Mosshart, J.Hince
Album: Ash & Ice
Label: Domino
Related Stories
The Dead Weather's Alison Mosshart and Jack Lawrence speak with Sam Wicks
Topics: music
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Tags: The Kills, The Dead Weather, rock, indie rock, Jamie Hince, Alison Mosshart
Duration: 14'08"
14:00
The Mixtape: John Campbell
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The host of Checkpoint, John Campbell, talks Sam Wicks through a C60's worth of handpicked tunes for The Mixtape.
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Since his student radio days hosting The Joy of Knowledge on Wellington's Radio Active, Checkpoint's John Campbell has been a passionate advocate for the music he loves, meeting music journalism by stealth to spotlight artists like The Chills, Tiny Ruins and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.
In the first instalment of a new series of The Mixtape, John Campbell talks Sam Wicks through a C60's worth of handpicked tunes, joining the dots between Glaswegian post-punk outfit Orange Juice and New Jersey singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten.
Music Details
Artist: Orange Juice
Song: Blue Boy
Composer: E.Collins
Album: Single
Label: Postcard Records
Artist: The Chills
Song: Submarine Bells
Composer: M.Phillips
Album: Submarine Bells
Label: Flying Nun, Slash
Artist: David Kilgour
Song: Today is Gonna Be Mine
Composer: D.Kilgour
Album: A Feather in the Engine
Label: Merge Records
Artist: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Song: Everything with You
Composer: K.Berman
Album: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Label: Slumberland
Artist: Frankie Cosmos
Song: On the Lips
Composer: G.Kline
Album: Next Thing
Label: Bayonet Records
Artist: Beyoncé
Song: Hold Up
Composer: T.Pentz, E.Koenig, B.Knowles, E.Haynie, J.Tillman, MNEK, Melo-X, Doc Pomus, M.Shuman, D.Way, A.Randolph, K.McConnell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: Lemonade
Label: Parkwood, Columbia
Artist: Anderson .Paak
Song: The Bird
Composer: A.Paak
Album: Malibu
Label: Steel Wool
Artist: Tiny Ruins
Song: You've Got the Kind of Nerve I Like
Composer: H.Fullbrook
Album: Some Were Meant For Sea
Label: Own Records
Artist: Sharon Van Etten
Song: Tarifa
Composer: S.Etten
Album: Are We There
Label: Jagjaguwar
Topics: music
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Tags: John Campbell, The Mixtape, Orange Juice, The Chills, David Kilgour, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Frankie Cosmos, Beyoncé, Anderson .Paak, Tiny Ruins, Sharon Van Etten, Checkpoint With John Campbell
Duration: 51'33"
14:15
Tigertown
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Sydney dance synth pop sibling, spouse and in-law band Tigertown talk with Yadana Saw about their missing backcatalogue which led to the evolution of their sound.
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Tigertown's latest EP Lonely Cities is a synth-heavy, danceable pop confection which is quite a departure their early works. Yadana Saw delves into the evolution of the harmonic family quartet who have had to embark on a gradual rewriting of themselves.
Topics: music
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Tags: Tigertown, Neon Gold, Sydney, Broods, family
Duration: 11'52"
16:00
Headquarters: Ben Edwards
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Record producer Ben Edwards' bookings schedule has been solid in the last year or so, thanks to the rise of Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding, Tami Neilson and the whole Lyttelton alt-country scene. We visit his recording studio in Lyttelton, to find out more about the producer/musician relationship.
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Record producer Ben Edwards' bookings schedule has been solid in the last year or so, thanks to the rise of Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding, Tami Neilson and the whole Lyttelton alt-country scene. Kirsten Johnstone visits his recording studio in Lyttelton, to find out more about the producer/musician relationship.
Ben Edwards and musician Marlon Williams met when Williams' first band, The Unfaithful Ways, were recording their first EP, and using The Sitting Room - a studio run by Edwards - as a rehearsal space.
“I remember thinking after a few rehearsals ‘they’re pretty good - they’re not amazing, but they’re pretty good'," Edwards says.
Since those first sessions, the pair has worked on an album by The Unfaithful Ways, a set of bluegrass music and three collaborative albums with Delaney Davidson. They've co-produced Aldous Harding’s debut, and worked on Tami Neilson's albums and Marlon’s own album. They’ve spent thousands of hours, perhaps tens of thousands of hours in the studio together. Are they sick of each other yet?
“You get sick of EVERYTHING," Williams says. “Tables annoy me. Every aspect of your world starts to appall you.”
Edwards has a more measured response. “There’s times when you annoy each other, you butt heads a bit, that’s normal, and I like that. Part of the whole process is working through that.”
It’s clear that the pair are close comrades. And they’ve been through a lot together in the past five years, in what has been an emotional and uncertain time for Canterbury people, post-earthquakes.
And music can bring things to the surface in a pretty strong way. “There hasn’t been a single album that I’ve ever recorded, that there hasn’t been someone vomit or cry," Edwards says.
“It’s so intense, it’s such a purging process, my job is just to make them [the musicians] feel comfortable."
Edwards says he’s definitely been typecast as an alt-country producer. “If my 17-year-old self met me now, and listened to the stuff I’m doing, I’d get punched in the face.”
Growing up more of a shoegaze, electric-guitar-band fan, he says he’s learned all he knows about country music from the musicians he’s worked with.
Business is booming for him, with studio bookings coming not only from within New Zealand but internationally as well.
“I’m probably the luckiest person in New Zealand, if not the world.”
Related Stories
Music Details
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Arahura
Composer: Williams
Album: RNZ recording
Label: n/a
Artist: Aldous Harding
Song: Stop Your Tears
Composer: Harding
Album: Aldous Harding
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: Delany, Marlon and Tami
Song: Whiskey And Kisses
Composer: Neilson, Davidson
Album: Sad But True Vol 2
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: The Eastern
Song: State Houses By The River, So Low Blues
Composer: McGrath/Shanks
Album: Hope and Wire
Label: Rough Peel
Artist: Will Wood
Song: New Bond St, Hymn
Composer: Wood
Album: Broken Man
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Hello Miss Lonesome
Composer: Williams
Album: Marlon Williams
Label: Caroline
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Single Girl, Married Girl
Composer: Trad
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: n/a
Artist: Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers
Song: What Lies Beneath
Composer: S Gregory, A Clark
Album: Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers
Label: Lyttelton Records
Topics: music
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Lyttelton, record producer
Duration: 13'00"
19:30
Luck/Hope by Steve Abel
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Kirsten Johnstone reviews Steve Abel's third album Luck/Hope.
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Kirsten Johnstone reviews Steve Abel's third album Luck/Hope.
It was as the hero of Film-maker Florian Habicht’s black and white gothic fairytale Woodenhead, back in 2003 that I first heard the voice of Auckland singer-songwriter Steve Abel.
Like the baritones of The National’s Matt Berninger and Bill Callahan - and at the rougher end, Tom Waits and Delaney Davidson - it’s a voice that feels lived in, beaten, heart-broken and slumped against a wall drunk, bottle of whiskey still in hand. Abel has been playing this part a long time.
In Woodenhead his deep range and depressing songs were perfectly cast as the voice of dump-hand Gert, who guides the mute Princess Plum on a perilous journey. That film wasn’t the end of collaborations between Abel and Habicht, they’ve done several music videos together, and Abel’s song ‘Sidewalk Doves’, released late last year, was inspired by footage from Habicht’s Love Story. And last week came Habicht’s video for Abel’s song ‘Best Thing’. It depicts a couple of lovers coming together, maybe in a hotel room, and getting - literally - dirty. It’s a gorgeous matching of sound and vision, slow, dreamy, and intimate.
It’s no wonder that he took out The Saddest Song in the World Competition in Berlin in 2009. Could you imagine him singing a happy song? ‘Best Thing’ was written 20 years ago, and I’m assuming a few other songs on Luck/Hope have had a long gestation period. Abel doesn’t seem one to hurry - most of these recordings were made seven years ago. He’s blamed ‘birth, death, debt, despondency’ on the lag between records, and I’m guessing his day job as a Greenpeace crusader has kept him busy too. But it’s not like he needs to be worried about catching changing trends in music - these sounds are timeless.
His voice is at its best backed up by a woman’s; on a few of the songs on this album, it’s his friend Jolie Holland. Abel met the Texan Americana singer and fiddler when she was touring NZ - he invited her to his own gig, and she was inspired enough to jump up for some improv fiddle that night, sparking great collaborations over the years since.
He’s economical with his lyrics; ‘First Part’ has only ten words in it, but doesn’t need any more. It’s a perfect picture of a broken heart, wallowing, hopeless… and possibly drunk.
The title track tackles that feeling of being trapped, perhaps being tied down with a family, mortgage and responsibilities that I’m sure many men in their 40s feel - and the feeling that there could have been more to this life:
Boy, what force in thee
made you to set the gull free
that you can’t even free
your own man-self now?
oh that a young boy could
cut this trap from in me
the invisible string
that makes despondence
and the hopeless choker
For the most part Luck/Hope ambles on at a slow tempo, with delicate, sparse accompaniment, and only occasionally gets a little rowdier. The instrumental section of ‘Good Arm’ is the crest of the wave, where guitars, fiddle and electronics get turned up to .. at least 7.
For a collection of songs recorded and mixed in eight different studios, over seven years, with many different engineers and musicians, it’s surprisingly coherent. Well done Olli Harmer for pulling it all together in the mastering.
It’s a beautiful album, suited to lonely late night listening, and gloomy introspection.
Songs featured: Hospice For Destitute Lovers, Sidewalk Doves, Best Thing, Not going anywhere, First Part, Luck/Hope, Good Arm.
Luck/Hope is available on Kin’sland Records/Arcade Records
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Steve Abel, Jolie Holland, singer-songwriter
Duration: 9'10"
19:30
Everybody Looking by Gucci Mane
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Sam Wicks lends an ear to Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane’s first post-prison release.
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Sam Wicks lends an ear to Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane’s first post-prison release.
For much of hip hop’s history, New York and Los Angeles have served as its twin poles of influence. At times this has been at the expense of other scenes, the volume generated on the East and West coasts masking noise made elsewhere. Rap’s regional influences have since been triangulated with the addition of Atlanta, Georgia as a hip hop epicentre, a city that’s given rise to a generation of lyricists unafraid to let their freak flag fly. There’s even been a name coined for these artists and their southern celebration of individuality: ATLiens.
Gucci Mane is one of Atlanta’s most influential and idiosyncratic voices, his prodigious catalogue of some 70 mixtapes and LPs, and his dexterous, sing-song guest verses positioning him as a preeminent ATL tastemaker.
Gucci’s colourful personal life has also made him the city’s most unpredictable talent, with a rap sheet of arrests and jail stints interrupting his transition to the pop charts.
On May 26th, Gucci was released from a federal penitentiary to much fanfare. He’d remained prolific during his a two-and-a-half year stretch, drip feeding nearly two dozen mixtapes to build anticipation for his return. Newly sober and equipped with reams of new verses, Gucci recorded his first new song within an hour of his release, a track serviced to radio the very next morning.
Rather than celebrating his newfound freedom, ‘1st Day Out Tha Feds’ sees inmate 65556-019 reflect on the the pitfalls of prison life, his jaded rhymes set to a sinister Mike Will Made It production.
Streamed over a million times in 24 hours, ‘1st Day Out Tha Feds’ offered the first glimpse at Everybody Looking, an album that Gucci knocked out in the six days that followed his release. On house arrest, he converted his suburban McMansion into a studio, drawing collaborators like Mike Wil l Made-It, Zaytoven and Drumma Boy together to execute a project years in the making.
Carried by the gargled melodies of Young Thug, a Gucci protégée and leader of Atlanta’s new school, ‘Guwop Home’ signals the triumphant return of ATL’s prodigal son. Gucci Mane has long been one of the city’s most reliable A&R men and influencers, co-opting talent like Migos, Waka Flaka Flame and in-demand producer Mike Will. It’s an influence Gucci acknowledges on ‘All My Children’, as he declares his love for his heirs over a snapping Drumma Boy beat.
It’s not just southern artists who have pledged fealty to Gucci and his claim to Atlanta’s rap throne. His most recent stint behind bars has only served to cement his legend, with big tent names vying to work with him. Kanye West and Drake both lend their voices to the project, with a rumoured EP from Drake and Gucci also in the works.
Gucci returned home prison-yard fit, his sentence forcing him to quit lean, a concoction of prescription-strength cough syrup. Stepping out of a syrup-induced haze, Gucci has turned in some of his most tightly focused songs in years, while sticking with the deliriously abstract punchlines that make his woozy wordplay so addictive.
This is not the first time that Gucci has been positioned as a pop contender, but Everybody Looking is perhaps his best chance yet of lording over the charts as well as the streets. To strike that balance, he’ll need to stay ahead of a system that has stymied his best efforts to date, while losing none of the stylistic eccentricities that made him a king of the south. With all eyes on him, Gucci Mane might finally be ready to serve up his street rap as pop.
Songs featured: 1st Day Out Tha Feds, Guwop Home, All My Children, Back On Road, Pop Music.
Everybody Looking is available on Atlantic Records.
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: music, music review, Gucci Mane
Duration: 7'26"
=SHOW NOTES=
=PLAYLIST=
Artist: St. Lucia
Song: September
Composer: Grobler
Album: When the Night
Label: Neon Gold
Artist: Tigertown
Song: Lonely Cities
Composer: C.Collins
Album: Lonely Cities EP
Label: Neon Gold
Tigertown
Artist: Tigertown
Songs: Make it Real, Always, Bullet From A Gun
Composer: Collins
Album: Lonely Cities EP
Label: Neon Gold
Tom Odell Live in Session
Artist: Tom Odell
Songs: Magnetised, Concrete
Composer: T. Odell, R. Nowels
Album: RNZ Music Recording
Label: RNZ Music Recording
Artist: Tom Odell
Songs: Magnetised, Concrete
Composer: T. Odell
Album: RNZ Music Recording
Label: RNZ Music Recording
The Sampler: Gucci Mane's Everybody Looking
Artist: Gucci Mane
Song: 1st Day Out tha Feds
Composer: R. Davis, M. Williams II, A.Hogan
Album: Everybody Looking
Label: Guwop Enterprises, Atlantic
Artist: Gucci Mane
Song: Guwop Home feat. Young Thug
Composer: R. Davis, M. Williams II, X.Dotson, J.Williams
Album: Everybody Looking
Label: Guwop Enterprises, Atlantic
Artist: Gucci Mane
Song: All My Children
Composer: R. Davis, C.Gholson
Album: Everybody Looking
Label: Guwop Enterprises, Atlantic
Artist: Gucci Mane
Song: Back On Road
Composer: R. Davis, A.Graham, S.Lindstrom
Album: Everybody Looking
Label: Guwop Enterprises, Atlantic
Artist: Gucci Mane
Song: Pop Music
Composer: R. Davis, M. Williams II, M.Harris
Album: Everybody Looking
Label: Guwop Enterprises, Atlantic
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Song: Place I Belong
Composer: Kiwanuka
Album: Love and Hate
Label: Interscope
2-3pm
Headquarters: Ben Edwards
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Arahura
Composer: Williams
Album: RNZ recording
Label: n/a
Artist: Aldous Harding
Song: Stop Your Tears
Composer: Harding
Album: Aldous Harding
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: Delany, Marlon and Tami
Song: Whiskey And Kisses
Composer: Neilson, Davidson
Album: Sad But True Vol 2
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: The Eastern
Song: State Houses By The River, So Low Blues
Composer: McGrath/Shanks
Album: Hope and Wire
Label: Rough Peel
Artist: Will Wood
Song: New Bond St, Hymn
Composer: Wood
Album: Broken Man
Label: Lyttelton
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Hello Miss Lonesome
Composer: Williams
Album: Marlon Williams
Label: Caroline
Artist: Marlon Williams
Song: Single Girl, Married Girl
Composer: Trad
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: n/a
Artist: Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers
Song: What Lies Beneath
Composer: S Gregory, A Clark
Album: Devilish Mary and the Holy Rollers
Label: Lyttelton Records
Artist: Julia Jacklin
Song: Leadlight
Composer: Jacklin
Album: Don't Let The Kids Win
Label: Liberation Music
Artist: Ryley Walker
Song: Roundabout
Composer: Walker
Album: Golden Sings That Have Been Sung
Label: Dead Oceans
Artist: The Breath
Song: Antwerp
Composer: The Breath
Album: Carry Your Kin
Label: Real World
Introducing: Peach Milk
Artist: Peach Milk
Song: Superambi
Composer: M. Eve
Album: Finally
Label: Peach Milk
PNC Still Jonah '95
Artist: PNC
Song: All I See, Sonny Bill 04, Hova Song, Jonah 95
Composer: S.Hansen
Album: The Luke Vailima EP
Label: Private
Artist: PNC
Song: Hova Song feat. Pieter T
Composer: S.Hansen, P.Tuhoro
Album: The Luke Vailima EP
Label: Private
Artist: PNC
Song: SBW Theme
Composer: S.Hansen
Album: Single
Label: Private
Artist: Nas and Erykah Badu
Song: This Bitter Land
Composer: Jones, Badu
Album: The Land OST
Label: Private
Artist: S U R V I V E
Song: A.H.B
Composers: Dixon, Stein
Album: RR74349
Label: Relapse Records
3-4pm
Artist: Ezra Furman
Song: Haley's Comet
Composer: Furman
Album: Big Fugitive Life
Label: Bella Union
Artist: Hamilton Leithauser + Rostum
Song: A 1000 times
Composer: Leithauser, Batmanglij
Album: Single
Label: Private
The Kills: Ash & Ice
Artist: The Kills
Song: Heart of a Dog, Doin It To Death, Siberian Nights, Impossible Tracks, Hard Habbit to Break
Composer: A.Mosshart, J.Hince
Album: Ash & Ice
Label: Domino
Artist: Henry Wagons
Song: Unwelcome Company
Composer: Henry Wagons
Album: Expecting Company
Label: Spunk
The Sampler: Steve Abel's Luck/Hope
Artist: Steve Abel
Song - Hospice For Destitute Lovers
Composer: Abel
Album: Woodenhead OST
Label: Private
Artist: Steve Abel
Song: Sidewalk Doves, Best Thing, Not going anywhere, First Part, Luck/Hope, Good Arm
Composer: Abel
Album: Luck/Hope
Label: Kin'sland Records
Artist: Third3ye
Song: Old Soul
Composer: Third3ye
Album: 3P
Label: Loop
Artist: BANKS
Song: Fuck With Myself
Composer: Jillian Banks
Album: Single
Label: Universal
Artist: Doprah
Song: Borderline
Composer: Doprah
Album: Wasting
Label: Flying Out
Artist: Cut Off Your Hands
Song: Turn Cold
Composer: Johnston and Cut Off Your Hands
Album: You and I
Label: Universal
Artist: Kate Bush
Song: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Composer: Bush
Album: Hounds of Love
Label: EMI
4-5pm
The Mixtape: John Campbell
Artist: Orange Juice
Song: Blue Boy
Composer: E.Collins
Album: Single
Label: Postcard Records
Artist: The Chills
Song: Submarine Bells
Composer: M.Phillips
Album: Submarine Bells
Label: Flying Nun, Slash
Artist: David Kilgour
Song: Today is Gonna Be Mine
Composer: D.Kilgour
Album: A Feather in the Engine
Label: Merge Records
Artist: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Song: Everything with You
Composer: K.Berman
Album: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Label: Slumberland
Artist: Frankie Cosmos
Song: On the Lips
Composer: G.Kline
Album: Next Thing
Label: Bayonet Records
Artist: Beyoncé
Song: Hold Up
Composer: T.Pentz, E.Koenig, B.Knowles, E.Haynie, J.Tillman, MNEK, Melo-X, Doc Pomus, M.Shuman, D.Way, A.Randolph, K.McConnell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Album: Lemonade
Label: Parkwood, Columbia
Artist: Anderson .Paak
Song: The Bird
Composer: A.Paak
Album: Malibu
Label: Steel Wool
Artist: Tiny Ruins
Song: You've Got the Kind of Nerve I Like
Composer: H.Fullbrook
Album: Some Were Meant For Sea
Label: Own Records
Artist: Sharon Van Etten
Song: Tarifa
Composer: S.Etten
Album: Are We There
Label: Jagjaguwar
Artist: Suran Unka and Levi Patel
Song: Rise
Composer: S.Unka, L.Patel
Album: 5/8
Label: Delete
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
=DESCRIPTION=
Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
=AUDIO=
US sued over military plans for Marianas islands; NZ police work to bridge cultural divides; South China Sea ruling could have knock-on effects for Pacific; West Papua issue picks at the core of MSG; Tonga struggling to rein in corruption, convert aid into projects; Fever pitch excitment in the Cook Islands ahead of Te Maeva Nui; A building boom is underway in Niue; An economist proposes opening up New Guinea island; Ten Pacific Island high achievers awarded NZ scholarship.
=DESCRIPTION=
Pacific news, features, interviews and music for all New Zealanders, giving an insight into the diverse cultures of the Pacific people (RNZI)
===6:06 PM. | Great Encounters===
=DESCRIPTION=
In-depth interviews selected from RNZ National's feature programmes during the week (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Saturday Night===
=DESCRIPTION=
Saturday nights on RNZ National is where Phil O'Brien plays the songs YOU want to hear. All music from 7 till midnight (RNZ)
=AUDIO=
=SHOW NOTES=
7 - 8pm
Rose Murphy - Busy Line
Frank Sinatra - Love's Been Good To Me
Gene Vincent - Over The Rainbow
Fron Male Voice Choir - Myfanwy
Buffy Saint Marie - My Country Tis Of Thy People You're Dying
The Reels - Bad Moon Rising
Perry Como - Seattle
Al Stewart - Soho
Melissa Venema - Il SIlenzio
Carmina Burana - Carl Orff
Mose Allison - City Home
Marni Nixon - I Could Have Danced All Night
Hogsnort Rupert - Pretty Girl
8 - 9pm
Judy Collins - Someday Soon
Shawn Phillips - Song For Sagittarius
Alison Case - Frank Mills (from the musical HAIR)
Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
The Hombres - Let It All Hang Out
Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - Chocolate Jesus
Mark Knopfler - Long Highway
Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525
Black - Womanly Panther
Ray Charles - What'd I Say (Pts. 1 and 2)
Brad Paisley - Ticks
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood - Some Velvet Morning
Richard Hawley - I Still Want You
Les Paul - Down In Jungle Town
9 - 10pm
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
Harry Nilsson - Think About Your Troubles
John Travolta - You're The One That I Want
k d lang - So In Love
The Hulamen - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Round Comes Back Around
The Staple Singers - The Weight
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - Summer In Monterey
Warren Zevon - Porcelain Monkey
Bob Dylan - Sweetheart Like You
Abbott and Costello - Who's On First?
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
10 - 11pm
Patti Smith - After The Goldrush
Porcupine Tree - Shesmovedon
Kate Bush - Never Be Mine
The Jam - Going Underground
Peter Green - Man Of The World
The Beatles - This Boy
Family - My Friend The Sun
Gin Wigmore - Written In The Water
Rank And File - Sundown
Chicago - Old Days
Emerson, Lake And Palmer - From The Beginning
Jonathan & Darlene Edwards - Deep Purple
11pm - Midnight: Late Night Phil. We look and listen back to the week in music history.
Danny Gatton - Notcho Blues
Barrett Strong - Money
Adele - Skyfall
Darlene Love - Jesus Is The Rock That Keeps Me Rolling
Bobby Hebb - Sunny
Mick Jagger - Lonely At The Top
The Kinks - A Gallon Of Gas
Pink Floyd - Matilda Mother
Mama Cass Elliot - It's Getting Better
Buddy Guy and Joss Stone - Baby, You've Got What It Takes
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (12" remix)