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:
06 August 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, read by Lloyd Scott (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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Bronco, by Michael Wilson, told by Jed Brophy ; Ossossossorus, by Julie Leibrich, told by Rima Te Wiata ; Gerald Murray's Sneeze, by Mark Casson, told by Michael Haigh ; The New House, by Barbara Hill, told by Stuart Devenie ; A Tale of a Tanuki, by David Somerset, told by Catherine Downes ; Grandma McGarvey Paints the Shed, by Jenny Hessell, told by Dorothy McKegg ; Huria's Rock, by Patricia Grace, told by George Henare
===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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08:12
David Goldblatt: the Olympics
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Kim Hill talks to David Goldblatt, one of the world's most celebrated sports writers, about his new book The Games: A Global History of the Olympics.
Topics: author interview, history, sport
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Tags: Olympics, Hitler, Haile Selassie, Russia, Germany, Japan, Los Angeles, Paris, Berlin, golf, beach volleyball, Baron Pierre de Coubertin
Duration: 47'54"
09:08
Euan Ashley
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Cardiologist and systems biologist Euan Ashley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California. He is director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, the Clinical Genomics service, and Chair of the Biomedical Data Science Initiative, and one of the leaders of a new, integrated approach to the science of genetics.
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Dr Euan Ashley is one of the leaders of a new, integrated approach to the science of genetics.
It is an approach that, rather than trying to find new treatments for disease by close examination of the sick, looks to the fittest amongst us for clues.
Cardiologist and systems biologist Dr Ashley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California.
In 2010 he led the team who mapped carried out the first clinical interpretation of the human genome.
He is director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, the Clinical Genomics service, and Chair of the Biomedical Data Science Initiative.
He, and his team are now looking for what have been described as Superhero genes.
Dr Ashley speaks with Kim Hill about his work.
Topics: health, science
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Tags: genetics, atheletes, excercise
Duration: 25'20"
09:35
Vicky Karaminas
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Dr Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Deputy Director of Doctoral Research at Massey University Wellington. She is the President of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, and editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, and is convenor for The End of Fashion, a major international conference later this year at Massey (8-9 December). She will discuss uniforms.
Topics: arts, sport, identity, history
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Tags: pop culture, fashion, hip hop Olympics, uniforms
Duration: 21'13"
10:09
Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford is a British writer whose books include The Child That Books Built (2002), Red Plenty (2010) and Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2013). His latest book, Golden Hill (Faber), is an historical novel set in 1746 New York.
Topics: author interview, books, history
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Tags: Francis Spufford, novel, Henry Fielding, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, 18th century, Terence Davies
Duration: 30'27"
10:35
Ashleigh Young
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Ashleigh Young is a poet, essayist and editor, and teaches creative science writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of personal essays is Can You Tolerate This? (VUP).
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Ashleigh Young is a poet and essayist.
She is an editor at Victoria University Press, and teaches creative science writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters.
Her first collection of personal essays is Can You Tolerate This? (VUP).
Topics: arts, author interview
Regions: Waikato, Wellington Region
Tags: Ashleigh Young, poetry, essays, blogging, cycling, running, writing, yoga, eating disorders
Duration: 19'21"
11:10
The Oxfords: Christ Church to Christchurch
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Kim Hill talks to The Oxfords, six young professional singers from the cathedral choir of Christ Church, Oxford: Henry Kimber (countertenor), Michael Ash (countertenor). Edward Woodhouse (tenor), Edmund Bridges (tenor), Alexander Dance (baritone), Anthony Chater (bass). They are visiting Christchurch and Greymouth during August, assisted by the Canterbury Association Music Trust and John Robert Godley Memorial Trust, for recitals, concerts and work with secondary schools.
Topics: music, arts, education, history
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Tags: The Oxfords, Stonehenge, Christ Church, teaching, religion
Duration: 34'24"
11:40
Kate De Goldi
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Kate De Goldi discusses author Peter Gossage, the review site Hooked on Books He Ao Ano, and four books shortlisted for the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults: Lily Max: Satin, Scissors, Frock by Jane Bloomfield, The Bold Ship Phenomenal by Sarah Johnson, Changing Times: the Story of a New Zealand Town and its Newspaper by Bob Kerr, and Sylvie the Second by Kaeli Baker.
Topics: author interview, books, education, arts
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Tags: Jane Bloomfield, Sarah Johnson, Bob Kerr, Kaeli Baker, Peter Gossage, Star Gossage, David Hill, Steve Braunias, Mary Mccallum, children, reviews
Duration: 19'29"
11:59
Listener Feedback to Saturday Morning 6 August 2016
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Kim Hill reads listener feedback from Saturday Morning 6 August 2016
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Duration: 7'25"
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8:12 David Goldblatt
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David Goldblatt is one of the world’s most celebrated sports writers. His new book is The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Macmillan).
9:05 Euan Ashley
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Cardiologist and systems biologist Euan Ashley is Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford University in California. He is director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, the Clinical Genomics service, and Chair of the Biomedical Data Science Initiative, and one of the leaders of a new, integrated approach to the science of genetics.
9:05 Vicky Karaminas
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Dr Vicki Karaminas is Professor of Fashion and Deputy Director of Doctoral Research at Massey University Wellington. She is the President of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, and editor of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture, and is convenor for The End of Fashion, a major international conference later this year at Massey (8-9 December). She will discuss uniforms.
10:05 Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford is a British writer whose books include The Child That Books Built (2002), Red Plenty (2010) and Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2013). His latest book, Golden Hill (Faber), is an historical novel set in 1746 New York.
10:40 Ashleigh Young
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Ashleigh Young is a poet and essayist. She is an editor at Victoria University Press, and teaches creative science writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of personal essays is Can You Tolerate This? (VUP).
11:05 The Oxfords
The Oxfords are six young professional singers from the cathedral choir of Christ Church, Oxford: Henry Kimber (countertenor), Michael Ash (countertenor), Edward Woodhouse (tenor), Edmund Bridges (tenor), Alexander Dance (baritone), Anthony Chater (bass). They are visiting Christchurch and Greymouth during August, assisted by the Canterbury Association Music Trust and John Robert Godley Memorial Trust, for recitals, concerts and work with secondary schools.
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11:40 The Children’s Book Awards with Kate De Goldi
New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi’s most recent novel is From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle. She will discuss the review site Hooked on Books He Ao Ano, and four books shortlisted for the 2016 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults (two junior fiction, one non-fiction, and one young adult fiction):
Lily Max: Satin, Scissors, Frock by Jane Bloomfield (Luncheon Sausage Books);|
The Bold Ship Phenomenal by Sarah Johnson (Flat Bed Press);
Changing Times: the Story of a New Zealand Town and its Newspaper by Bob Kerr (Potton & Burton); and
Sylvie the Second by Kaeli Baker (Mākaro Press).
This Saturday’s team:
Producer: Mark Cubey
Wellington operator: Rachel Smith
Christchurch operator: Andrew Collins
Research by Infofind
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Artist: Gang of Four
Song: I Love a Man in a Uniform
Composer: Gill, King
Album: Songs of the Free
Label: EMI, 1982
Broadcast: 9:35
Artist: The Oxfords
Song: Beati Quorum Via
Composer: Charles Villiers Stanford
Live in the Christchurch studio of Radio New Zealand
Broadcast: 11:15
===12:11 PM. | This Way Up===
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Slices of life for curious minds. (RNZ)
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12:01
This Way Up for 6 August 2016
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Shopping trolleys and the psychology of money.
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Duration: 48'26"
12:15
Shopping Trolleys
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An ode to the shopping trolley; its past, its present and its future. With Zachary Crockett, Matt McKeown, Murray Siple, Henry Harris-Burland and Peter Griffin.
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A shopping trolley can represent choice and abundance when it's trundling around the aisles, or a supermarket carpark. But change the context and take one out onto the street and it can become a symbol of deprivation and homelessness.
"Few inventions have so profoundly shaped consumer habits. With the exception of the automobile, the shopping cart is the most commonly used "vehicle" in the world: some 25 million grace grocery stores across the U.S. alone." Zachary Crockett
Every one seems to have its own individual character too; one jams in the queue so tight you'll never shift it, another pulls to the left, wheels jam or judder uncontrollably, when all that you really want is for them all to behave the same!
Historically the shopping trolley was developed to get us consumers to buy more; it was the brainchild of an entrepreneur and supermarket operator from Oklahoma called Sylvan Goldman who devised a basic shopping cart by mounting two baskets on a folding chair.
Despite some early consumer resistance when it premiered back in 1936 (overcome by the employment of a crew of actors to cheerily push the trolleys round Mr Goldman's shop!), the tactic's worked. Studies have shown that people will buy up to 40 percent more when they shop with a trolley rather than a basket.
But although its basic design has remained largely unchanged for 80 years, the shopping trolley is changing! The world's biggest retailer Walmart is trialling a 'driverless' shopping trolley that will travel around the supermarket and do your shopping for you.
And two of the founders of Skype are working on a robotic cart that takes the goods you buy and delivers them right to your front door at a time that suits you. Now that sounds like progress!
Meanwhile with the arrival or e-commerce over the past 15 years, the trolley has shifted from being a purely physical object to a virtual symbol. Today when you visit any online retailer you'll see that immediately recognisable shopping cart icon in the top right corner of your screen inviting you to add items, save it, and (of course!) to buy just a little bit more.
Topics: history, technology
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Tags: retail, shopping, trolley, cart
Duration: 35'21"
12:45
The Psychology of Money
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Claudia Hammond is a writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer and in her new book Mind Over Money (Canongate) she looks into the psychology of money.
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Claudia Hammond is a writer, broadcaster and psychology lecturer and in her new book Mind Over Money (Canongate) she looks into the psychology of money.
Among the topics she discusses are the power of pocket money, why we spend more when we use credit cards rather than cash, and how the choices we are presented with when we shop are sometimes illusory [spoiler: don't always choose the middle-priced item!].
Topics: science
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Tags: psychology; money; cash; credit; finances
Duration: 10'53"
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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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11:00
Third3ye in Session
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West Auckland hip hop outfit Third3ye perform cuts from their 3P EP.
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Triangulated by the hip hop powers of Angelo King, MeloDownz and Basmatic, New Age rap outfit Third3ye form part of Young, Gifted and Broke, the music and arts collective that includes Average Rap Band, Esther Stephens and The Means, and Tourettes in its ranks.
The trio have added a third EP – 3P – to their catalogue of organic, spiritually-minded rap music, an eight-track bundle recorded at the Buddha Shack, their former Avondale HQ that’s provided a tie-dyed backdrop to Third3ye videos and press shots.
“The Buddha Shack is actually a space that was set up for my girl,” says Angelo. “She travelled through to India six years ago, came back and brought a whole lot of stuff back and started getting into Eastern philosophies and things – so she really heavily influenced my life.
“I moved in there before I met [MeloDownz], so when we first connected that’s where we would catch up and that’s where we would write music and that’s where we were most inspired – and so it’s only natural that a lot of songs were created in a place that we felt was a neutral ground or a common ground for both of us.”
For Music 101, Third3ye join Sam Wicks in studio to perform two Buddha Shack-honed cuts and have a korero.
Music Details
Artist: Third3ye
Song: Feet 5, Old Soul
Composer: Third3ye
Album: RNZ Music Recording
Label: RNZ Music Recording
Related Stories
Third3ye talk about the philosophies behind their debut album On3ness
Inside the Young, Gifted & Broke artistic collective
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Third3ye, rap, hip hop, Young Gifted & Broke
Duration: 11'21"
18:10
Introducing: Sea Views
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Sea Views introduce their track 'Into The Night'.
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Name of project: Sea Views
Real names: Benjamin Locke, Katie Everingham, Scott Kendall, Robert Bruce
Age (of project): 2 years
Hometown: Auckland
Associated acts: The Naenae Express, Fazerdaze, Greenfog, Her Desher, Eyes no eyes, Heavy, DBLDBL, Trip Pony
Formative musical experience:
Ben - Finding Nux Vomica on an Air NZ flight
Katie - Fleetwood Mac in New Plymouth. Crying when they opened with 'Chains'.
Robert - Micheal Jackson
Scott - Playing through an 8x10
Musical Guilty Pleasure:
Ben - Burt Bacharach
Katie - Bring The Light by Smashing Pumpkins
Robert - Not admitting guilt because it's statically proven to improve your likability.
Scott - Vengabus by The Vengaboys
Facebook / Bandcamp
Music Details
Artist: Sea Views
Song: Into The Night
Composer: Sea Views
Album: Into The Night EP
Label: Sea Views
Topics: music
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Introducing, Sea Views, The Veils, Lion Eyes, The Naenae Express, New Zealand music
Duration: 6'59"
13:00
Manuel Goettsching: From Kraut Rock To Techno
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Manuel Göttsching started his musical journey when he formed the legendary avant-garde band Ash Ra Tempel in 1970 , and went on to influence the burgeoning house and techno movements in America.
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In Germany, after the war in 1945, “there was not only houses destroyed but also the culture was destroyed”.
During the 60s, as British and American music took over the world, there was a movement amongst German musicians to experiment and create something of their own. Musicians like classical composer Karlheinz Stockhausen were hugely influential and rock musicians were quick to embrace experimentation and improvisation.
Guitarist and composer Manuel Göttsching says; "There was no real business structure, so this was all very experimental music."
Manuel Göttsching started his musical journey when he formed the legendary avant-garde band Ash Ra Tempel in 1970 which included Klaus Schulze (ex Tangerine Dream).
They purchased Pink Floyd’s second-hand PA system and quickly built a cult following with their incendiary improvisations, playing in Germany and Europe.
Their first album recorded ‘live’ in the studio with producer Conny Plank set a musical precedent and the band’s repertoire grew. Their 3rd album Seven Up, recorded in Switzerland, featured Timothy Leary on vocals while he was exiled there after escaping from America for various LSD and drug related charges.
After taking a break from Ash Ra Tempel Göttsching recorded his first solo album “Inventions for Electric Guitar” in 1974 on a TEAC 4-track. It’s a highly regarded instrumental gem that for years was regarded as a lost masterpiece. It’s a hypnotic recording influenced by American composer Terry Riley, consisting of nothing but guitar overdubbed from beginning to end 4 times.
The only parts of the composition that Göttsching can’t reproduce live is one guitar track recorded at ‘double speed’. Göttsching performed the piece live in Japan in 2010 with 3 other guitarists including Steve Hillage.
Whilst developing his home studio after the recording of “Inventions for Electric Guitar in 1974, Göttsching developed an interest in electronic music that saw him composing for keyboards with an array of synthesizers and sequencers and using them in his live performances. He says “I treated all these instruments as just one big instrument that I play all at the same time”
In 1981 Göttsching conceived an electronic piece called “E2-E4” which these days is regarded as the precursor to the development of House and Techno Music in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
E2-E4 is an hour-long recording based around 2 chords on keyboards and overdubbed guitar that was something of a happy accident. He accidently hit the record button and produced a mesmerizing piece of music. He was due to fly from Berlin to Hamburg and took the recording with him to listen on his Walkman.
It was listening back to it that Göttsching realized he had “one of those magic moments that you have sometimes”.
Although Richard Branson of Virgin Records expressed his admiration for the track, Göttsching felt that Branson was too distracted by his airline business, so the album was released independently.
Originally reviewers dismissed E2-E4, but over the years the album found it’s way to the burgeoning House and Techno movements in America.
Influential taste maker Larry Levan, who was the resident DJ at the hugely popular New York club Paradise Garage, was infatuated with the idea of making "music that would never stop."
He started playing E2-E4 in it’s entirety.
The track gradually gained momentum and was picked up by other DJ’s across America, like Carl Craig in Detroit, and it became one of the most sampled records ever, second only to Donna Summer.
When serendipity strikes, music can travel in some marvelous ways. It certainly did for Göttsching!
A the UK observer wrote: ‘E2-E4 distilled the classical minimalism of Terry Riley and Steve Reich into a groove that became a Paradise Garage anthem”
Manuel Göttsching continues to play live and in the year 2000, along with his film producer wife Ilona, started his own record label MG Art, which is re-releasing much of his music that for some time has been unavailable
Göttsching has enjoyed an influential career in music and despite being a private and modest man, takes considerable pride in seeing his work enjoying something of a renaissance, which he continues to augment with new compositions.
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Duration: 17'51"
13:00
So Laid Back Country China: Sin Cristales
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So Laid Back Country China hone their brand of 'Canyon Rock' with their second release Sin Cristales.
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And So Laid Back Country China have just followed it their 2015 debut with Sin Cristales, an album that sees them return to work with producer and engineer James Goldsmith who has help them hone their brand of ‘Canyon Rock’.
Zac Arnold caught up with Harriet Ferry and Michael Keane ahead of their New Zealand tour.
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Artist: So Laid Back Country China
Song: Return to Goodbye, Ballad of Calm Arms, Garden Lost Child, Pt. 1
Composer: So Laid Back Country China
Album: Sin Cristales
Label: Private
Topics: music
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: So Laid Back Country China, James Goldsmith, alternative, Jack Ladder, Canyon Rock, rock
Duration: 14'56"
13:45
Lisa Suckdog - Weirdos, 'Gore Opera' and cathartic performance art
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American writer and performer Lisa Carver is known for her unflinching writing in the cult zine Rollerderby, and for her revealing memoir Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir. Her wild 'gore operas' in the group Suckdog have featured nudity, urination, and audience agitation. She speaks to Kiran Dass about her work.
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American writer and performer Lisa Carver is known for her unflinching writing in the cult zine Rollerderby, and for her revealing memoir Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir. Her wild 'gore operas' in the group Suckdog have featured nudity, urination, simulated sex and audience agitation.
She visited Auckland and Wellington this week with her confrontational performance troupe and Kiran Dass was there at the Auckland show where she had spaghetti flung at her. Carver spoke to Dass about why she loves the "weirdos" that send her fan mail, how she aims for her shows to be the destruction of everything, and why she doesn't get her kit off onstage anymore now that her fourteen-year-old daughter "math geek" Sadie has joined the group.
Music Details
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Your Dragon
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Alligators Lurking
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver & Helen Suckpuppy
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Being in Love
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Snakes Dancing
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Beasts of the Night Gather Together
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Brontës in the Attic
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Will I Ever Do Anything with My Clothes On?
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver & Rachel Suckhorse
Label: Suckdog
Topics: music, arts, books
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Tags: performance art
Duration: 16'08"
14:30
The Sampler - Sachi, October, Suren Unka and Levi Patel
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Kirsten Johnstone takes a listen to a trio of local electronic releases, by Sachi, October, and collaborative EP by Suren Unka and Levi Patel.
Topics: music
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Tags: music review, electronic music, synths, pop, House
Duration: 12'04"
15:05
Christchurch - Building a city on rock and roll
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Five years on, Christchurch is in the slow and uncharted path of rebuilding itself. Yadana Saw takes a tour of the recovering southern city and meets with local venue owners, artists and musicians who are forging ahead.
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The poster above my desk reads “There’s Nothing to See Here” in big, red helvetica over an old town planning map of Christchurch city. It clearly conveys the loss and frustration of life in a post-quake city, which, as an outsider, I am only aware of through news media reportage.
The impression is that Christchurch is besieged with bureaucratic, political and geographic forces that either hinder or dictate what the city’s future will be, irrespective of its residents’ hopes and wishes.
Marcus Winstanley, proprietor of music venue The Darkroom:
“I don’t think this place is going anyway in the next decade at least….What did they say for the rebuild, ten years? I’d say more like forty...The Government unveiled a huge plan of new precincts, I just knew that’s not how a city builds...you have to give the people in the city the power to do it themselves.”
I’m standing in Marcus’ bar, a cosy, dark venue repurposed from an unknown industrial or manufacturing past to survey how Christchurch’s arts and music communities are rebuilding. The Darkroom was one of the first venues to open after the 2011 earthquake.
“You used to be able to walk out of the doors here and walk straight into a fence which fenced off the inner city. Obviously there was nothing in Christchurch at that time”
But what isn’t unique to The Darkroom is the familiar and fond feeling that the smell of stale beer and past parties conjures up: an indie music venue that serves as a headquarters to a city’s misfit music community.
For my tour guide, Johnny Gibson of urban online taste-making guide Neat Places, The Darkroom serves as an important symbol to Cantabrians’ sense of recovery,
“We’re not going to sit around as locals and wait for things to happen, we’re just going to do it ourselves and invite our friends. These things just grow organically”
To prove his point, Johnny takes me across the road to meet Gareth Talbot and Richard Sewell of Kadett and Space Academy - a multi-purpose venue and cafe. Neither had experience in hospitality nor property management, though Gareth’s rudimentary carpentry skills were handy for building the venue’s furniture. Richard admits he foolishly took on the lease, after years of telling his friends that he wanted to run a warehouse venue as a community arts and cultural space.
“Ignorance led us to think it was easy,” he laughs, “but there’s something nice in the cross-pollination [between Gareth and him]”.
Christchurch’s lack of central city vibrancy pre-dates the earthquake. Less than a decade ago, inner-city retailers bemoaned the suburban megamalls of Riccarton, Linwood, and Papanui that wooed shoppers away from their precinct. Johnny says that issue hasn’t gone away, as we detour our way to Woolston, where the concept of a retail mall has been given a serious reboot.
On the site of the Woolston Tanneries site dating back to 1881 is The Tannery, a “Victorian retail arcade” boasting a “unique retail experience” including a cinema, brewery, and recent addition to the Christchurch live venue listings: Blue Smoke.
As seems to typify the current Christchurch mood of evolution and reinvention, Blue Smoke is the new incarnation of Gustav’s, a wine bar where you would have never seen the likes of indie darling Mac Demarco “hang off the rafters and yell out “I’m staying in Addington!” It’s a memory that Johnny credits Jess Shanks for. As Blue Smoke’s Event Coordinator and a member of Christchurch’s troubadouring The Eastern, Jess embraces her role as community facilitator.
“I want all kinds of people to use this place for whatever kinds of events or concerts..it’s really up to people, I’m up for it.”
She is positive about the future of live music in Christchurch. And she’s not the only one feeling optimistic about post-quake life. Marcia Butterfield, founder of Neat Places has felt a change.
“I’m really most excited about people walking around..there’s some life again. For so long the central city has been very dead.”
I look up to the poster above my desk, and I’m not so sure about that big, red text any more.
Music details
Artist: Lawrence Arabia
Song: Apple Pie Bed
Composer: Milne and Buda
Album: Chant Darling
Label: Honorary Bedouin
Artist: Mac Demarco
Song: Passing Out Pieces
Composer: Demarco
Album: Salad Days
Label: Spunk
Artist: Pikachunes
Song: Disco Baby
Composer:
Album: Pikachunes
Label: Lil' Chief
Topics: music
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Tags: Christchurch earthquake, music venues
Duration: 25'05"
16:00
The Mixtape - Rob Ruha
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Singer-songwriter Robert Ruha (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui/Ngati Porou) talks about his Kapa Haka beginnings, Maori Music Month, growing up on the East Coast and presents a mixtape to his life so far.
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Singer-songwriter Robert Ruha (Te Whānau-ā-Apanui/Ngati Porou) joins Kirsten Johnstone to talk about his Kapa Haka beginnings, Maori Music Month, growing up on the East Coast and presents a mixtape to his life so far.
Born into a 'kapa-haka mad' family, there was no escaping the stage for Rob Ruha. He's been performing at writing kapa-haka from a young age, but a couple of years ago was encouraged by his cousin Ria Hall and fellow Te Whānau-ā-Apanui alumnus Maisey Rika to sing solo. In 2014 he scooped a bunch of music awards, including the APRA Maioha Award, for his song Tiki Tapu.
Now he's an ambassador for the inaugural Te Marama Pūoru Waiata Māori - Māori Music Month, with the mission being to inspire and nurture young talent.
Related Stories
Music Details
Artist: Rob Ruha
Song: Te Aomuhurangi
Composer: Rikirangi Gage
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: Unreleased
Artist: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
Song: Kahura
Composer: Unknown
Album: Live at WOMAD 2016
Label: Unreleased RNZ Recording
Artist: Bob Marley
Song: So Much Trouble In The World
Composer: Marley
Album: Survival
Label: Island
Artist: Glen Miller
Song: In The Mood
Composer: Miller
Album: The Essential Glen Miller
Label: Sony
Artist: Te Mokai
Song: He Tohu Aroha
Composer: W Nia Nia
Album: The Maori Music Collection
Label: Jayrem
Artist: Maisey Rika
Song: Tangaroa Whakamautai
Composer: Rika
Album: Whitiora
Label: Moonlight
Artist: Adam Whauwhau
Song: Ka Tuku Whakamoemiti
Composer: Whauwhau
Album: He Hua O Roto
Label: Private
Artist: Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi
Song: If Only
Composer: Gardiner-Toi
Album: Unreleased
Label: n/a
Topics: music, te ao Maori
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Tags: mixtape
Duration: 1h 01'12"
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1–2pm
Artist: So Laid Back Country China
Song: With Knees of Honey
Composer: So Laid Back Country China
Album: With Knees of Honey in Goodbye Canyon
Label: Private
So Laid Back Country China
Artist: So Laid Back Country China
Song: Return to Goodbye, Ballad of Calm Arms, Garden Lost Child, Pt. 1
Composer: So Laid Back Country China
Album: Sin Cristales
Label: Private
Introducing: Sea Views
Artist: Sea Views
Song: Into The Night
Composer: Sea Views
Album: Into The Night EP
Label: Sea Views
Artist: Shayne P. Carter
Song: I Know Where I Stand
Composer: S.Carter
Album: Offsider
Label: Flying Nun
Artist: Ian Sweet
Song: #23
Composer: Ian Sweet
Album: Shapeshifter
Label: Hardly Art
Lisa Suckdog
Artist: Suckdog
Song: Your Dragon, Alligators Lurking, Being in Love, Snakes Dancing, Brontës in the Attic, Will I Ever Do Anything with My Clothes On?
Album: Drugs Are Nice
Composer: Lisa Carver
Label: Suckdog
2–3pm
Manuel Göttsching
Artist: Manuel Göttsching
Song: Bois De La Lune
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: Manuel Göttsching - Ash Ra Tempel - Ashra – The Private Tapes Vol. 1
Label: MG Art
Artist: Ash Ra Tempel
Song: Pimboss, Traummaschine
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: Ash Ra Tempel
Label: Made in Germany Music
Artist: Ash Ra Tempel (with Timothy Leary)
Song: Downtown
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: Seven Up
Label: Made in Germany Music
Artist: Manuel Göttsching
Song: Inventions for Electric Guitar
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: Inventions for Electric Guitar
Label: MG Art
Artist: Manuel Göttsching
Song: E2-E4 Part 1 of 6, E2-E4 Part 6 of 6
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: E2-E4
Label: MG Art
Artist: Manuel Göttsching
Song: Shuttlecock (2013)
Composer: M.Göttsching
Album: 2013 at the Ambient Festival in Gorlice
Label: MG Art
Artist: Holy Balm
Song: Fashion
Composer: Holy Balm
Album: Activity
Label: Chapter Music
The Sampler: Sachi/October/Suren Unka & Levi Patel
Artist: Sachi
Song: Hold On, South Central feat. DUCKWRTH, Heavy Breathing
Composer: Chrisp/Thomas
Album: Lunch With Bianca EP
Label: Universal
Artist: October
Song: Switchblade, Kids, 750mls
Composer: E Logan
Album: Switchblade EP
Label: Universal
Artist: Suren Unka and Levi Patel
Song: Shelter, You, Rise
Composer: Unka/Patel
Album: 5/8
Label: Marigold Music
Artist: Grimes
Song: Medieval Warfare
Composer: C.Boucher
Album: Suicide Squad: The Album
Label: Warner Music
Third3ye in Session
Artist: Third3ye
Song: Feet 5, Old Soul
Composer: Third3ye
Album: RNZ Music Recording
Label: RNZ Music Recording
Artist: Gold Panda
Song: Media Evil
Composer: D. Powers
Album: Kingdom EP
Label: City Slang
3–4pm
Artist: Transistors
Song: On Cashel Street
Composer: Transistors
Album: Cuppa Jarra Brossa
Label: Private
Christchurch Venues
Artist: Lawrence Arabia
Song: Apple Pie Bed
Composer: Milne and Buda
Album: Chant Darling
Label: Honorary Bedouin
Artist: Mac Demarco
Song: Passing Out Pieces
Composer: Demarco
Album: Salad Days
Label: Spunk
Artist: Pikachunes
Song: Disco Baby
Composer:
Album: Pikachunes
Label: Lil' Chief
Artist: Lee Fields and the Expressions
Song: My World
Composer: L.Fields
Album: My World
Label: Truth & Soul Records
The Sampler: Aaradhna
Artist: Aaradhna
Songs: Brown Girl, Drunken Heart Smoky Mind, Empty Hall, Messin’ Around, Devil’s Living In My Shadow, I’m The One For You
Comp: Patel, Scott
Album: Brown Girl
Label: Universal
Artist: NAO
Songs: Trophy feat AK Paul
Comp: N.Joshua, A.Paul
Album: For All We Know
Label: Little Tokyo Recordings
Artist: Rob Ruha
Song: Waiaroha feat Maisey Rika
Composer: R.Ruha, M.Rika
Album: Pūmau
Label: Private
4–5pm
The Mixtape: Rob Ruha
Artist: Rob Ruha
Song: Te Aomuhurangi
Composer: Rikirangi Gage
Album: RNZ Recording
Label: Unreleased
Artist: Te Whānau-ā-Apanui
Song: Kahura
Composer: Unknown
Album: Live at WOMAD 2016
Label: Unreleased RNZ Recording
Artist: Bob Marley
Song: So Much Trouble In The World
Composer: Marley
Album: Survival
Label: Island
Artist: Glen Miller
Song: In The Mood
Composer: Miller
Album: The Essential Glen Miller
Label: Sony
Artist: Te Mokai
Song: He Tohu Aroha
Composer: W Nia Nia
Album: The Maori Music Collection
Label: Jayrem
Artist: Maisey Rika
Song: Tangaroa Whakamautai
Composer: Rika
Album: Whitiora
Label: Moonlight
===5:11 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of political issues presented by RNZ's Parliamentary team (RNZ)
===5:30 PM. | Tagata o te Moana===
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Australia's government has been criticised for shirking responsibility for the plight of asylum seekers and refugees caught up in its offshore processing centres on Nauru and Manus Island, Papua New Guinea; The Tongan Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva is staring down a motion of no confidence when he returns from his trip to New Zealand, but says he has the support of cabinet; West Papuan refugees in the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby have expressed gratitude at being given land for resettlement; A new report says charges have been laid in less than two percent of more than 20-thousand violent incidents towards Vanuatu women; ADB says high internet costs constraining economic development in the Pacific; A feature length movie about the exploitation of a New Caledonia based Wallisian rugby player and his move to France to forge a professional career has just screened at the New Zealand International Film Festival; A world heritage listing could bring millions of dollars in conservation help for ancient ruins near Pohnpei in Federated States of Micronesia; Pacific medal hopefuls talk about their goals for the Rio Olympics.
=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=
Here are some of the songs you asked me to play on Saturday Night. There are still a few gaps to fill so the final playlist won't be online till just before 7 on Saturday.
7 - 8pm
The Hot Sardines - Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
Paul McCartney - Put It There
Lonnie Donegan - Lively
Andrea Bocelli - Barcarolle
Glenn Miller - American Patrol
The Weavers - The Frozen Logger
Sam Browne - There'll Always Be An England
John Rowles - If I Only Had Time
Herbie Mann - Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
Jan Peerce - The Bluebird Of Happiness
Vaughan Monroe - The Idaho State Fair
Herb Alpert - Zorba The Greek
Take 6 - Unchain My Heart
Joe Scott and Bobby Bland - Ain't That Loving You
8 - 9pm
Jimmy Dean - Dear Ivan
Brian Protheroe - Fly Now
Victor Young - The Call Of The Faraway Hills
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong - Mood Indigo
Kenny Ball And His Jazzmen - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
Billy Swan - Don't Be Cruel
Johnny Standley - It's In The Book
Jackie DeShannon - What The World Needs Now
The Kingston Trio - Merry Minuet
Russ Conway - Love Letters
Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade
Jussi Bjorling - Ack Varmeland, Du Skona
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Virginia Plain
9 - 10
Al Wilson - The Snake
The Supremes - Nathan Jones
Blossom Dearie - Put On A Happy Face
Neil Young - Four Strong Winds
Charles Trenet - Boum
Glen Campbell - Ocean In His Eyes
Extreme - More Than Words
Charles Penrose - The Laughing Policeman
Britta Phillips - Drive
Soulsavers - Kingdom Of Rain
Barry Ryan - Colour Of My Love
Paul Pena - Jet Airliner
10 - 11
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Shipbuilding
Lonnie Mack - Why
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Steve Harley - Come Up And See Me
Wild Nothing - A Woman's Wisdom
Anthony Phillips - Um And Aargh
John Prine - Quit Hollerin' At Me
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
Lonnie Donegan and Rory Gallagher - Rock Island Line
11pm - Midnight: Late Night Phil.
Looking and listening back to the week in music history.
Michael Nesmith - In The Still Of The Night
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
George Harrison - All Those Years Ago
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Panama Red
Andy Fairweather-Low - Gin House Blues
Tony Bennett with Lady Gaga - I Won't Dance
Bread - Truckin'
Jimmy Webb with Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Willy DeVille - Venus Of Avenue D (live)
Willy DeVille - Mixed Up Shook Up Girl (live)
Willy DeVille - Spanish Stroll (live)