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Bic Runga on her new album, Red Sunset
Bic Runga sits down with Kara Rickard to speak about the culmination of her new album and the influence of Paris on its sound and atmosphere. Audio
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Catching up with There’s a Tuesday
28 Feb 2026Ōtautahi Christchurch indie-rock band There's a Tuesday join Kara before hitting the stage at Hagley Park's Electric Avenue Festival. Audio
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NZ electronic trio Minuit’s surprise reunion
28 Feb 2026Influential Aotearoa electronic outfit Minuit have reunited after a 12-year hiatus. RNZ podcaster Phil Vine interviews the group on the ground at the AUM… Audio
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Hemi Hemingway on his new album, Wings of Desire
28 Feb 2026Hemi Hemingway joins Kara for a kōrero about his new album and the realisation of his sound on the record. Audio
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The Mixtape: Jordan Watson
28 Feb 2026Jordan Watson joins Kara to talk about his life and career, including fatherhood, his experience growing up in an eel farming family and what it's like to have… Audio
Saturday 28 February 2026
13:15 Bic Runga on her new album, Red Sunset
Bic Runga’s new album, Red Sunset, is the first collection of all-new material released by the artist in 15 years.
The record was partially recorded in Paris, where Runga lived for three years during her twenties. It offers up a swathe of songs written during a period of reflection, while some tracks date back even earlier. ‘Home Run’ was originally intended for 2002’s Beautiful Collisions, and has now found its home as the closing track on Red Sunset.
Clocking in just shy of thirty minutes, the album nods to vintage Parisian pop of the 1960s and ’70s; other songs are infused with elements of techno and dance.
Runga sits down with Kara Rickard to speak about the culmination of Red Sunset and the influence of Paris on its sound and atmosphere.
Bic Runga (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine) Photo: Kody Nielson
Catch Bic Runga on tour:
- March 7: Black Barn, Hawke's Bay
- March 21: Waikato Regional Theatre, Hamilton
- March 27: NZICC Theatre, Auckland
- March 29: Isaac Theatre Royal, Christchurch
- April 2: Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington (with NZSO)
14:10 There’s a Tuesday live from Electric Avenue
Ōtautahi Christchurch indie-rockers There’s a Tuesday are set to grace the stage today at Electric Avenue Festival, currently underway at Christchurch’s Hagley Park.
The four-piece consists of singers and guitarists Minnie Robberds and Nat Hutton, drummer Gus Murray and bassist Joel Becker.
Since the band’s formation in 2019, they’ve released two albums (the latest, Blush, came out just last year), opened for artists like Conan Gray, BENEE and Julia Jackson.
Minnie joins Kara live from Electric Avenue.
There's A Tuesday. Photo: Supplied
14:25 Hemi Hemingway on his new album, Wings of Desire
Last Friday Poneke’s alt-rock crooner Hemi Hemingway, AKA Shaun Blackwell (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga), has just released his sophomore album, Wings of Desire.
Dubbed a ‘yearnfest’ by Hemingway, the record mingles elements of 1980s post-punk and New Romantic styles: the result is a heady, danceable concoction with the power to make one tap their feet or cry in equal measure.
This year Hemingway is set to play Austin’s SXSW (South by Southwest) Festival and Brighton’s Great Escape Festival.
Hemingway joins Kara for a kōrero about Wings of Desire and the realisation of his sound on the record.
Hemi Hemingway Photo: Supplied
15:20 NZ electronic trio Minuit’s surprise reunion
Influential Aotearoa electronic outfit Minuit reunited last year to play a suite of shows, marking their first performance together for 12 years.
Minuit is singer Ruth Carr and multi-instrumentalists and producers Paul Dodge and Ryan Beehre. The trio was hot on the NZ electronic and dance scene through the early 2000s, earning them a cult following across the country.
They’re perhaps best known for their chart-topper ‘Aotearoa’ off their 2009 album, Find Me Before I Die A Lonely Death.com. Carr is renowned for her emotive and affecting lyrics, which some fans now have tattooed.
RNZ podcaster Phil Vine interviews the group on the ground from the AUM festival.
Minuit in 2025 (left to right - Paul Dodge, Ruth Carr and Ryan Beehre) Photo: Supplied
16:10 The Mixtape: Jordan Watson
Jordan Watson is the brains behind the YouTube channel How to DAD, a YouTube channel with over 1.4 million subscribers.
Watson once held the 100m world record for sprinting in jandals; now, he’s turning his attention to athletics. He’s being pitted against six of Aotearoa’s top athletes in the new series Out of My League.
He joins Kara to talk about his life and career, including fatherhood, his experience growing up in an eel farming family and what it's like to have an audience of millions.
Photo: Jordan Watson
Songs Played:
1pm - 2pm
- Cirrus - Bonobo
- Minnie Riperton - Les Fleur
- Gabriel Jacoby - the one
- Big Runga - Glass Atrium
- Big Runga - Home Run
- Big Runga - Paris in the Rain
- Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way
- Tom Misch - Slow Tonight
- Crazy Love - Tom Scott
- Yes We Can Can - The Pointer Sisters
- Yebba - Yellow Eyes
3-4pm
- Gurami - The Diasonics
- Smoke Signals - Reb Fountain
- Ezra Collective & Greentea Peng – Helicopters
- Goldie Boutilier - Who Are You Gonna Worship Now?
- BLVCK SPVDE - new romantic ode to dil witherz
- Georgia Gets By - Won’t Stop Loving You
- Courtney Barnett - Stay In Your Lane
- Eden Burns - Snares of Fortune
4-5pm
- Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
- Rod Stewart - Sailing
- Backstreet Boys - Everybody
- Scribe - Not Many
- Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want Is You
- Tom's Diner (Cover) - AnnenMayKantereit x Giant Rooks
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