RNZ: Music 101

In this week's Pocket Edition, we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of 2B Spacific the debut album of Che Fu, Tony Stamp speaks with Thai New Zealander Phum Viphurit and we hear the latest tune from Tiny Ruins.

The birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, we're heading to warmer times with the RNZ Music crew and their musical selections for springtime

Fable NZ introduces his song 'Kanikani'

Thomston has been suspiciously quiet for the last two years and now we discover why. He's been writing a lot of songs. He stops by the RNZ studio's to share just one of what might be up to eighty new creations.

HIGH HØØPS is the solo project of Leisure's Jordan Arts. He's just released his debut album Seasons on Planet Earth. Jordan put a band together and dropped into RNZ to perform two stand-out track from the album - 'Madly' and 'Blue Eyes'.

This Thai musician spent his formative years in New Zealand, and has now found global success via Youtube.

RNZ's Trevor Reekie shares some of his highlights from the Womad 2019 line up announced this week.

Hopetoun Brown drop by Music 101 to perform a few songs.

Lily Allen has dealt with fame since she was 21. In an interview promoting her upcoming New Zealand show she addresses both the up and downsides to fame, the rawness of her new album, toxic internet culture and her new, happier place.

For Suffrage 125 a group of NZ women composers were asked to set poems and lyrics of the 1890s to song for a concert put on by the NZ School Of Music. French For Rabbit's Brooke Singer, along with bandmates Penelope Esplin and Jacqui Nyman plays the world debut of 'An Obstacle' with words by Charlotte Stetson.