Blind Mango Chutney spreads smooth peanut butter from Silent Poets, mashes up orchestral jazz, then gets crunchy with William Parker. Followed by trad jams by Ellington and hot-buttered toasts from Della Reese and Dizzy G.

This week's show featured new music from Pickle Darling, Queens of the Stone Age, CHAI and more.

Pet, is a chilling new psychological thriller from internationally bestselling author Catherine Chidgey which came on the 8th of June. Told from a single point of view, so as not to show the hand of the novel’s other characters, Pet is an unflinching examination of the corrosive power of guilt and the extent some people will go to cover their tracks.

Because on Various Artists we consider all creative endeavours to be artmaking in the broadest sense, and writing an art form very worthy of our time, this week Frances caught up with the creative mind behind Pet to hear about how it came to fruition.

Another awesome show at Basement theatre next week! Johanna Cosgrove’s stand up show ‘Hi, Delusion’ is running once again after a sold out run last month. This is depicted as a casual descent into the void , it’s hilarious, dark, and it’s fantastic. Liam had a chat to Johanna about how the show came together. 

Joining us first up on Various Artists this week is artist Eiko Olykan, one half of the show Believe in the Journey, a duo exhibition with Ōtautahi based artist Grace Crothall. The show addresses Disney Pixar’s changing literary landscape, slips into ​​bleached Frozen (yes, the movie) aesthetic voids, and taps into enchantment and the loss of it. 

Coming up next week at Basement Theatre, Jazmine Rose Phillips new performance art show ‘Their Feet Did Not Touch The Ground’ is on from the 22nd to the 24th of June. 

This show circulates around conversations they had with Farhad Bandesh, an imprisoned asylum seeker in Australia, in an effort to tell his story and spread word about wrongful imprisonment of refugees.

Happy Friday, whānau! Today on Travelling Tunes, Dr Kirsten Zemke gives us some tunes that embody the spirit of masculinity. Sarah Thomson is our Viewmaster, reviewing the outrageously good Australian-made show, Deadloch. The crew from Mānuka Recordings come in with Eo to talk about his single Tell Me, out today! Dusty and Ghos are in the studio to talk about their project Mokomokai and the second album release from the group of collaborators, WHAKAREHU. Whakarongo mai nei!