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Chris Squire of YES
Grammy Award winning prog-rockers YES arrive in New Zealand for the first time in April 2012. Formed in London in 1968 Yes helped change the sound of UK music... they were amongst the original… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Listen Whitey - Black Power 1965-75
3 Mar 2012Trevor Reekie talks to Pat Thomas about his book Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, which includes a soundtrack of long unavailable material, released by Seattle label… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Balkan Brass and Asphalt Tango
25 Feb 2012One of the major attractions of WOMAD Taranaki 2012 is Balkan brass band Mahala Rai Banda who are signed to German record label Asphalt Tango. This is a label that has flourished in the niche market… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Etta James Remembered by Bobby Murray
11 Feb 2012The long-reigning Queen of the blues Etta James passed away on January 20 2012 aged 73. Etta's guitarist for the past 20 years was Bobby Murray. the three-time Grammy award winning guitarist talks to… Read more Audio
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Bernie Griffin and the Grifters in Session
10 Dec 2011Trevor Reekie hosts Bernie Griffen and the Grifters in session for Music 101. The songs are: 29 Diamonds; Sometimes I Feel So Sad; The Horse Song; Take the Money and Run. 10 December 2011. Audio
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Access All Areas: Captain Sensible of The Damned
2 Dec 2011Raymond Burns a.k.a. Captain Sensible was a toilet cleaner in Croyden, outer London, before he joined the Damned and had a musical career unlike many others in punk. When Sensible left the Damned, he… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Adrian Sherwood - 30 Years of On U Sound
25 Nov 2011Adrian Sherwood is the elder statesman of UK dub. He's a producer who - in the Jamaican tradition - uses the mixing desk like a musical instrument. He has worked with a who's who of UK and Jamaican… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Adrian Sherwood - 30 Years of On U Sound
25 Nov 2011Adrian Sherwood is the elder statesman of UK dub. He's a producer who - in the Jamaican tradition - uses the mixing desk like a musical instrument. He has worked with a who's who of UK and Jamaican… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: 2Cellos
27 Aug 20112CELLOS are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. These Croatian virtuosos have gone from obscurity to near ubiquity in double- quick time. With over 5 million hits on YouTube in less than 3 months, their… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: A Country Divided
The winter of 1981 saw the Springboks rugby team tour New Zealand, and Kiwis divided. Recent Maori attempts to reclaim ownership of government requisitioned land at Bastion Point had focused attention… Read more Audio
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Access All Areas: Pixie Williams
23 Jul 2011In 1948 20-year-old Pixie Williams became one of Aotearoa's earliest recording stars with 'Blue Smoke', a song written by Ruru Karaitiana. Now 83, Pixie's old 78 RPMs have been dusted off and… Read more Audio
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Access All Area: Hone Tuwhare - Koha for the Crib
16 Jul 2011Some of New Zealand's top musicians, artists and poets got together in July 2011 to pay tribute to one of the country's best-loved and most successful poets Hone Tuwhare, and to raise money to… Read more Audio
