Malcolm Gayfer

Hiya team, how has the week been travelling for you? We continue our NZ Music Month special with our friends at Little Fire MusicWorks with a couple of crackers. A bit of 80’s Culture (Culcha!)  from Wellington band The Knobz. Their only hit. If you were around during the Muldoon era you would pick

The curtain is coming down on an illustrious role our ambassador for the arts has played. Great South Creative Arts manager Ange Newell is moving away from a role that had small beginnings 20 years ago. Ange Newell says after 20 years it’s time to look for a change and new challenges. Ms Newell said

It’s Thursday and the Covid Lockdown shackles are off, well not fully off but have certainly been relaxed. Many Southerners have taken advantage of the many click and collect offerings that became available at level 3. But from today it’s shopping nearly as we knew it before Covid-19 darkened our do

Hiya team….well we’re in alert level 2 now. A relief to be able to go out and about again and enjoy some of the simple things in life although in some cases with a bit of a twist. Anyway we continue our voyage of discovery or re discovery of some timeless kiwi gems and celebrate […]

Sad news from the weekend with news that Little Richard had passed away. Little Richard came from that wonderful era of the dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll with contemporaries like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry to name a few. They say that Little Richard was the architect of Rock’n Roll. In my

Hi there team and welcome to May….New Zealand Music month. Over the month we’ll haul out some absolute kiwi crackers from days way back to reasonably recently. We’ll start by marking the passing of Deane Sutherland. Sadly Deane passed away at the end of March after a long battle with cancer. Due to

Hiya team….and what a cracking day it is, well as I write this it is, lets hope it continues. Another couple of first class crackers to wind up LockDown Live. First up a song that’s taken on a life of its own, Journey’s  Don’t Stop Believing, from the days when Steve Perry was the voice […]

Since October, the region has faced bad weather that’s grounded helicopters and shut tracks. In February, Fiordland operators were left reeling when more than a metre of rain fell in less than three days, cutting Milford Road and damaging Great Walks. After more than three weeks with no visitors, th