Entertainment

Hiya team, here we are at the end of July. We’ll wind up our series of Mal’s Music Memory – 50 Years Ago 1970 with a couple of Kiwi Crackers. A few notes from New Zealand history on what happened here in Godzone in 1970 – Keith Holyoake was Prime Minister. Winston Peters said the […]

Hiya team. How’s the week been treating you? We’ll keep on keepin’ on looking back at the songs that made it big in 1970 – 50 years ago. First up it’s English band Mungo Jerry who took the world by storm with In The Summertime. Incidentally the song has been rerecorded with Mungo’s frontman and […]

Hi there team, how’s your week been travelling so far. Hope everyone is keeping warm, having said that more cold temperatures are on the cards for the end of the week. This week Mal’s Music Memory travels back in the time tunnel to 1970 – 50 years ago as we feature two Kiwi No 1’s […]

Hiya team and welcome to this special edition of Mal’s Music Memory with Little Fire MusicWorks We’re celebrating Ringo Starr’s 80th birthday this week, 7th July to be precise. We’ve picked a couple of Beatles tracks on which he featured, Birthday from the White album where he plays a cracking track

Hi team. Sad note to end the week with news that Dame Vera Lynn has passed away at the grand age of 103. Dame Vera became a household name during World War 2 with her renditions of songs that cheered the spirits of the military forces and the population of Britain and the Commonwealth during […]

Hi there team. Some sad news to pass on. Sweet bass player Steve Priest passed away recently. Music lovers of the early 70’s would well remember the glam rock band who had a string of hits like Fox On The Run, Action, Wig Wam Bam, Little Willy and Teenage Rampage to name a few. Looking […]

Auckland pop sensation Benee – aka Stella Bennett – has gone viral on video-sharing platform TikTok twice, but manager Paul McKessar says her success is based on an ‘old-fashioned hit record’. In 2019, a New Zealand TikToker performed a dance with two friends to Benee’s ‘Glitter’, which spread aroun

Hiya team, here we are just about at the end of May and NZ Music Month is drawing to a close. Let’s go out with three first class crackers. First up Sharon O’Neill with a come-back song from the late 80’s, Danced In The Fire. Here is a kiwi singer songwriter that could’ve and should’ve […]