Malcolm Gayfer
Hi team…a double banger as we round off New Zealand Music Month with Little Fire Music Works. Believe me I’ve been toiling over how to farewell the month but I’m going out on a limb and picking two Kiwi gems from either end of the music sphere. First up is a band I first saw […]
Hi there team. We continue with our NZ Music Month theme. What about some local talent to spice up a dreary Tuesday? Here’s top local band from not so long ago Pretty Wicked Head and the Desperate Men doing All New Zealand Heroes from their album New Age Savage. Don’t forget to call in and […]
Hi there team. We go back to the 80’s for this week’s gem from Herbs The band had been around for several years doing good things then the late Charlie Tumahi returned from a long career in the UK to take up the bass and lead vocal duties. In so doing he took Herbs to […]
Hi y’all and welcome to the merry month of May which is also New Zealand Music Month. As the weather is a bit average I thought we’d get a summeree type tune to warm us up on Mal’s Music Memory What better than this tune from exactly 30 years ago, The HolidayMakers hit Sweet […]
Southland Fish and Game Field Officer Cohen Stewart outlines the prospects for the upcoming opening weekend of the duck shooting season. It’s that time of year again, the opening weekend of the duck shooting season is upon us. Many Southland hunters have made the necessary preparations to their maim
Hi there team. Here we are at the end of April and time to celebrate the birthday of one America’s best known singer songwriters, the one and only William Hugh Nelson, or just plain ol’ Willie. But before we do that, we must acknowledge the passing of former Exponents guitarist Dave Barraclough. Dav
Hey there team. Good to be back after an enforced layoff last week but we are back with another supa-dupa musical memory. We’ll continue with our theme of going back 40 years to 1978. Here’s one we haven’t heard for yonks and it’s great to dust it off again. A track from unquestionably one […]
Hi team, this week we mark the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the ferry Wahine at the entrance to Wellington harbour during a ferocious storm. Here is the number 1 song on the New Zealand hit parade of that week. Yes, they were hit parades back then. It’s Manfred Mann’s take on Bob Dylan’s […]