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On this auspicious day Milly & Rob Bollox jump on the airwaves together! Featuring special guest appearances like bFM Alumni Rachel Ashby, and Louis & Keg. Lemon Drizzle cake is eaten and thoroughly enjoyed. Some great tunes are played. Delicious beers thanks to Hallertau Brewery are drunk. It's good times all round!

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This week on Sages of the Ages these magicians find themselves stuck in 1990. With a wide range of area codes to pick from, a new Minister of Finance, and no more rum for navy officers, the year is an excellent time to be a New Zealander! It's also a great time to be a fan of West Germany, who go against all odds to win the World Cup. Featuring tracks from Pixies, Herbs, and Deee-Lite, this year's music is among the best of the best. See you in 2012!

Whakarongo mai!

Cam from Southbound Records is back in the studio, telling us about some new exciting wax available in the shop including Dawn Richards’ new album ‘Creole Culture’, ‘Post Script’ from the falls and a very exciting reissue of the classic ’16 Lovers Lane’ from The Go-Betweens!

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Sof catches up with artist Whiro Walker and musician Cello Forrester about their joint exhibition currently on at MSJD Gallery, the width of my arms against yours.

And Maya catches up with artist and writer Frances Libeau, about their current exhibition on at Gus Fisher Gallery in The Changing Room, As Loyal Kiwis We Cannot Desire. 

Whakarongo mai <3 x x

For Travelling Tunes this week, Dr Kirsten Zemke chats to Rosetta about Chinese protest songs throughout the decades and how artists skirt around strict censorship. Whakarongo tonu mai!

This week on Teenage Frequencies... Gabi came up to the studio armed with some wonderful picks! Inspired greatly by Patti Smith and the likes, the pair discuss what it means to be just kids--charging up for a beautiful Rāmere!

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Whiro Walker is a Tāmaki-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans textiles, carving, and sculpture, exploring tensions surrounding indigeneity, taonga, whakapapa, and storytelling. 

Cello Forrester is a Tāmaki-based musician and writer. They are a third of the sibling trio Womb, and have composed sound pieces for theatre, film, and art installations. 

Their current joint exhibition at MSJD Gallery, the width of my arms against yours, brings Walker and Forrester’s practices together in this dynamic dialogue of process and connection – both engaging in this method of making that centres layering and intuitive response. 

In the centre of the gallery space hangs a heke made of textiles by Walker – its form and role in the wharenui as the ribs of tupuna in conversation with the push and pull of Māori and the Crown. Siblings hanging onto the bottom of the fabric, facing each other, creating this kind of symmetry – layering and piecing together physical remnants and memories in this exploration. 

Spanning a period of ten years, Forrester’s collected compositions speak further to this layering of time and memory - responding and viewing Walker’s use of textiles and quilting as a metaphor for this - enwrapping the viewer in these beautiful, dynamic sonic reverberations. 

Sof caught up with Whiro and Cello about the width of my arms against yours, and their overall practices.