Verbal Highs

Verbal Highs

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Verbal Highs episodes

  • Episode 48: Andy Vann
    Andy Vann is an originator in the New Zealand music community. He nurtured much of the talent laid down on 1994’s ‘Proud: Urban Street Soul Compilation’. Andy is looking forward to Leeds getting back into the premiership. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 5 min
  • Episode 47: Alan McElroy
    Alan McElroy is a stand-up comedian, MC, actor and writer from Dublin. He immigrated to Auckland in 2010 & has been on the local pro comedy circuit since. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 18 min
  • Episode 46: Theo Gibson
    Theo Gibson is a theatre, film, and video technician who turned a 1990 Toyota Sera into an electric vehicle & made a documentary about it along the way. Theo longs for a day when driverless car software can differentiate between children & midgets. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 20 min
  • Episode 45: Tobi Jafa
    Tobi Muir operates Auckland’s Jafa Mafia sound system. Tobi’s folks were activists, which led to a sudden move from Dunedin to London when he was 10. Tobi’s Dachshund Sizzla disappeared from a party. He turned up again four years later. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 27 min
  • Episode 44: King Kapisi
    Bill Urale is an award-winning rapper, music producer, clothing designer, screen printer, record label founder, video director, and community worker. Bono once invited Bill to a small room where he sat with Zane Lowe’s mum.

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    1 hr 27 min
  • Episode 43: Mike Weston
    Mike Weston is a musician, print maker, videographer, promoter, and painter. Before becoming one half of Weston Frizzell, he toured Detroit techno DJs. Mike was involved in a Champagne smuggling cartel that operated out of Sony Music Christmas parties. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 32 min
  • Episode 42: Scott Blanks
    Scott Blanks is the Don of the NZ stand-up comedy scene. Scott was one of the original pioneers of the early '80s, before opening The Classic in 1997. Scott once had an existential crisis while drinking Scotch & listening to U2. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 32 min
  • Episode 41: Elizabeth Allan
    Elizabeth Allan is a novelist, bartender, journalist, editor, ESL tutor, and sub editor who has self-published three of the six novels she has written. In 2002 she sent the entire print run of the first novel to Manchester & never checked whether it arrived. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 22 min
  • Episode 40: Dylan C
    Dylan Chase is an Auckland DJ stalwart by night & Programme Director for Base FM by day. Base’s large roster of DJs aims to bring the funk to Auckland. In 2015 Dylan clocked Gladwell’s 10,000 hour theory on the turntables. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 29 min
  • Episode 39: Jeremy Parkinson
    Jeremy Parkinson has produced prime-time talkback radio since 1998. Over the last few years he’s produced Michael Laws, Sean Plunket, & Mark Sainsbury. Jeremy voted for Helen Clark because she was giving him a lift home at night. Please subscribe to the podcast & check www.verbalhighs.com

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    1 hr 29 min

About Verbal Highs

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Verbal Highs is a long-form interview podcast with people who create & innovate in their chosen art form, vocation, back shed, main stage, peer group, or shower cubicle. Based in Tāmaki Makaurau,…