On the Air - Mā runga iarere for Friday 17 January 2025
Nau mai to On the Air with Mark Williams and Kara Rickard - Summer Special 2025
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Gareth Thomas from Goodshirt
12:35 PM.Goodshirt holds a special place in New Zealand's music history - a band that, in the early 2000s, carved out a quirky and unmistakable identity in the power pop landscape, and Gareth Thomas from… Read more Audio
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Emerging London-based, Dunedin born artist Len Blake Live in Studio
1:15 PM.She's a singer, a songwriter, a seamstress? She's multi talented, and usually she's based in London, however she's come back to Aotearoa for the summer, and Mark and Kara have her live in studio. Read more Audio
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Music from the city of angels, Los Angeles, with Sarah Thomson
2:10 PM.Mark and Kara are treated to a genre deep dive into the sound of Los Angeles with our special guest, Sarah Thomson. Read more Audio
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Sam Teskey from the Teskey Brothers
3:30 PM.Kara and Mark talk to Sam Teskey from Australian Teskey Brothers ahead of their shows in Aotearoa. Read more Audio
Nau mai haere mai, welcome to On the Air - Mā runga iarere with Mark Williams and Kara Rickard for Friday, 17 January 2025.
Skip to songs played on the show today
12.35pm Gareth Thomas from Goodshirt
Goodshirt holds a special place in New Zealand’s music history - a band that, in the early 2000s, carved out a quirky and unmistakable identity in the power pop landscape, and Gareth Thomas from Goodshirt joins Kara and Mark on the show!
Gareth Thomas Wake Up Photo: supplied
1.15pm Emerging London-based, Dunedin born artist Len Blake Live in Studio
She's a singer, a songwriter, a seamstress? She's multi talented, and usually she's based in London, however she's come back to Aotearoa for the summer, and Mark and Kara have her live in studio.
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2.10pm Music from the city of angels, Los Angeles, with Sarah Thomson
Mark and Kara are treated to a genre deep dive into the sound of Los Angeles with our special guest, Sarah Thomson.
Sarah Thomson Photo: Paul Taylor
3.30pm Sam Teskey from the Teskey Brothers
Kara and Mark talk to Sam Teskey from Australian Teskey Brothers ahead of their shows in Aotearoa.
Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey, aka The Teskey Brothers Photo: Ian Laidlaw
4.20pm Essential NZ Album: Goodshirt's - Good
Nick Bollinger says Goodshirt's 2001 album Good is not just good. It's an essential New Zealand album.
You can listen to Nick Bollinger discuss 'Good' here
Goodshirt back in the day. Rodney Fisher and Gareth Thomas on the right. Photo: supplied
Songs Played:
12.30pm - 1pm
Moby - Go (Woodtick Mix)
The Doobie Brothers - Takin’ it to the Streets
Darcy Clay - Jesus I Was Evil
Voom - B your Boy
Goodshirt - I Can’t Drive
Royal Otis - Oysters in My Pocket
1pm - 2pm
Milt Buckner - The Beast
Marlena Shaw - California Soul
Jordan Rakei - Flowers
Len Blake - Better Now
Miakie - Green Love
Ezra Collective - God Gave Me Feet For Dancing ft. Yazmin Lacey
Bill Withers - Make A Smile For Me
Carole King - It's Too Late
James Brown & Stro the 89th Key - Turn It Up Give It Shrooms
Randy Newman - I Love LA
David Axelrod & David McCallum - The Edge
2pm - 3pm
Ritchie Valens - Malagueña
The Stone Poneys - New Hard Times
The Beach Boys - 'Til I Die
Joni Mitchell - Coyote
Alice Coltrane - Govinda Jai Jai
Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
Tata Vega - Get It Up For Love
Georgy Porgy - Toto
The Go-Go's - Tonite
3pm - 4pm
Beck - Loser
Warren G - Regulate ft. Nate Dogg
Thundercat - Them Changes
Blankenship - DIIV
Wild Time - Weyes Blood
War - Low Rider
4pm - 5pm
Fat Freddy's Drop - SixEight
DJ Nu-Mark - Ain't No Fun
Quarteto Em Cy - Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Sueño Latino - Sueño Latino (Paradise Version)
