In 'Exploring Ōtautahi' you'll hear from the music community of Christchurch one interview at a time, gaining perspectives of the southern city right from those who call it home.

On this debut episode I chat to Melted Ice Cream CEO Brian Feary. We discuss rural desperation, getting away with a suburban jam house and the power of good taste.

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Neil Macleod and Oscar Keys are both ambitious, talented and incredibly nice. I had a conversation with them about their new ambitious visual album 'I Need A Battle' and its Boosted crowdfunding campaign amongst other topics.

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Here's my weekend recap ft music and audio excerpts from my time spent at three gigs in three nights - including A Night With Buda and the Ōtautahi festival 'Better Living IRL' 

I caught Violet Hirst and collaborator Reuben Scott (Salt Water Criminals) before their Christchurch show to talk about the new Violet Hirst album 'Donegal'

Enjoy music from the bewitching and beautifully-crafted album alongside my interview and discussions on Central Otago, vulnerability and finding sustainability in the music industry.

Part audio-diary, part solo-podcast, Weekender is the continuation of an experiment in podcasting that I started with the FODRPODR on tour with my band FODR.

Listen to what I got up to this weekend in music world alongside relevant audio clips I collected from the events I'm describing!

This episode features Violet Hirst, the Fazerdaze solo show + opener Pickle Darling and an all ages show organised by high school band Stonechild.

The best music event I've been a part of is back and hitting Wellington for the first time at the wonderful Vogelmorn Bowling Club.

Tickets from UTR

"at our venue it's been exclusively comedy festival all through music month"

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In an effort to reconnect with my southern roots I followed Soft Plastics from Christchurch down to Dunedin and had a lovely time.

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Soft Plastics are a three-piece shoegaze / indie rock band from Wellington that put beautiful vocals up-front, fill the middle with lush atmosphere and finish it all off with big bombastic rock-outs.

I chat to the band about recording, track-listing, approaching the live sets and the challenges of being an independent band between tracks from the wonderful debut record 'Saturn Return' out now.

https://softplasticsband.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-return

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My personal philosophy for selling digital music in the modern music industry and how streaming platforms fit into it.

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