For this weeks Fancy New Band we were lucky to welcome CAITLIN into the studio as she finishes her last show of her nation wide tour!  

CAITLIN is a Te Waipounamu-born, Ōtautahi-based indie-pop singer-songwriter who has been on a roll this year! Today she played 'Wash' and 'Tied' which are both off her newest EP Guardrails!

Thanks to NZ On Air!

Maya caught up with Sefton Rani about his solo exhibition Postscript, currently on at Trish Clark Gallery.

And Sof caught up with Melanie Roger about Dark Matter, a group exhibition showing Simon Attwooll, Harry Culy, Simon Endres, and Kirsten Roberts, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.

Whakarongo mai x

Happy Rāmere e te whānau! E whai ake nei, coming up on your Friday Breakfast with Rosetta and Milly: Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, From The Crate with Cam, and plenty of tunes, prizes and more! Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Kirsten chats with Rosetta and Milly about bands with lots of members! Whakarongo mai nei, listen back to hear kōrero about Parliament, Snarky Puppy and AKB48! 

Dark Matter is a group exhibition currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery. 

In 2008, contemporary art curator and writer Robert Leonard wrote the essay Hello Darkness: New Zealand Gothic, describing New Zealand, or Antipodean, Gothic as a turn of expression in New Zealand art in which Ronnie van Hout’s 1992 photographic series ‘Return of The Living Dead’ heralded a shift to viewing our landscape as a kind of haunted space. Reimaging traditional European Gothic expressions in a way unique to New Zealand, it embraces darkness, the unfamiliar, and uneasiness, emerging partly in response to biculturalism as a dominant subject of discourse in New Zealand art in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Exhibiting work by Pōneke-based artists Harry Culy and Simon Attwooll, alongside Tāmaki-based Simon Endres and Kirsten Roberts, Dark Matter delves into the artists’ respective explorations of the gothic. Each artist individually plays with this concept, letting darkness and anxiety push and pull with its surprising softness and quirks that unfold in the works, creating a space that is both haunting yet strangely comforting simultaneously. 

Sof caught up with Melanie Roger about the show. 

Cam shares some of the new wax out on the shelves at Southbound today, including Thee Marloes, X-Ray Spex, and Meiko Kaji. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

A survey of Automobile Association members' views on time-of-use charging has been presented to the Auckland Council’s Transport and Infrastructure Delivery Committee. 

The survey found that members were open to congestion charging if it worked, even if they thought it was unfair.

Labour leader Chris Hipkins gave a ‘State of Auckland’ speech last week, focusing on the need for cross-party collaboration on infrastructure projects.

Wire Host Caeden spoke with Councillor Shane Henderson about both of these topics.

Ata mārie! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today: Rosetta spoke with Kelly Moran about her show on June 17 at the Kāhui St Davids, Natasha Griffiths shares some memories from The Crown in Ōtepoti for NZ Music Month, and your chance to win tickets to Sola Rosa + Kevin Morby's new album on vinyl! Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Rosetta chats with NYC based composer, pianist and producer Kelly Moran about her forthcoming show at Kāhui St Davids on June 17th, as part of Strange Universe: Winter Edition. Whakarongo mai nei!