Music 101 for Saturday 10 August 2024

 

1.20 Nathan Haines: 'I’m just amazed I’m still here talking to you’

Nathan Haines, one of NZ’s most loved and genre pushing musicians, has just released his 11th studio album Notes.

It was an album that saw him team up once again with the legendary London-based producer Phil Asher, who worked with Nathan on the albums Squire For Hire and Sound Travels in the early 2000s. However, during the recording Phil died unexpectedly, and Nathan was tasked with finishing the album.

Nathan speaks to Charlotte about the experience of making Notes, beating throat cancer, becoming a father and losing a great friend. 

Nathan Haines will be bringing his new album to the Powerstation in November. 

2.30  Midnight Oil doco: ‘Pub rock was a rebellion of a generation’

As part of the NZ International Film Festival a documentary traces the 45-year journey of the Australian pub rock band, Midnight Oil.

Paul Clarke, the director, talks to Charlotte Ryan about how ‘The Oils’ were so much more than an Australian pub band, shaping modern Australia with anthems like Beds Are Burning, Blue Sky Mine and Redneck Wonderland, and creating incredible protest moments such as the famous “Sorry” suits at the Sydney Olympics.

Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line will screen at the NZIFF Film festival. Check your local NZIFF programme for dates here.

3.15  DIY music collective bringing ‘Great Sounds Great’ to Pōneke

The Great Sounds Great festival is happening on Saturday 31 August, in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. 

Bands, DJs and poets will be performing across seven stages in six neighboring music venues around Cuba St.  

The lineup includes Dateline, Death and the Maiden, Ebony Lamb, Fur Patrol, Half Hexagon, Hera Lindsay Bird, Trinity Roots, Womb and so the list goes on. 

It’s also the celebration of 10 years of Eyegum music collective who organised the festival, as well as lots of DIY gigs around the capital.

Eyegum formed in 2014 to put on a series of shows in flats, bowls clubs and other unorthodox spaces following the closure of many of the capital’s favourite venues. Charlotte speaks to festival co-curator Ben Jones. 

Find the Great Sounds Great lineup here.

3.40  The Sampler: Blue Dreams by Holly Arrowsmith

Holly Arrowsmith's Blue Dreams is carefully constructed and immediately impressive 

4pm The Mixtape: Film director Ant Timpson

As Bookworm opens in New Zealand cinemas this week, film director Ant Timpson joins us on the Mixtape.

Ant founded the Incredibly Strange Film Festival and the 48 Hours film competition. He’s worked on 80s feature films like Queen City Rocker, and produced The ABCs of Death series, Deathgasm, comedy horror The Greasy Strangler, and Turbo Kid, winning a Saturn Award for Best International Film among numerous awards. 

In 2019, Ant directed his debut feature film Come to Daddy which has become a cult hit, and has collaborated again with co-writer Toby Harvard and actor Elijah Wood for his brand new film Bookworm. 

 

Songs played on the show

1-2

Nathan Haines - Love you more
Crumb - AMAMA
Leon Bridges - Peaceful Place
Little Dragon - Ritual Union
Marlins Dreaming - Lucky Star
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Fontaines DC - Here's the thing
Tom Waits - Get Behind the Mule
Thee Sacred Souls -Live For You

2-3
Isaac Hayes - Theme from "Shaft"
Metronomy - Contact high feat Faux Real, Miki
Spoon - Inside Out
Goat - Ouroboros (radio edit) 
Louisa Nicklin - Thick
Midnight Oil - Power and Passion
Mystery Waitress - Console
Wilco - Hot Sun 
Grouptalk - I Get Lost
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan

3-4

Karl Sölve Steven -Bookworm Theme
Trinity Roots - Aotearoa
Ebony Lamb - Salt Sand Sea 
Womb - Oceans
Half Hexagon - Buy The Farm
The Raveonettes -I Love How You Love Me
FAUX PRIX  - that looks like a house
Louis Baker - Fools Expectation
The Smile - Don't Get Me Started