Nights for Friday 27 January 2017
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Kiwiburn
8:12 PM.Kiwiburn is New Zealand's Regional Burning Man festival, currently taking place in Hunterville. We talk to Hippathy Valentine, long-time Kiwiburner and project leader for The Giant Weta. Audio
7:07 Sonic Tonic
Music with magic and mischief spun into an surreal sensation of mayhem and maybe magnificence.
Hippathy Valentine shooting flames out of The Giant Weta's antennae at Kiwiburn 2017: The Robots are Coming... Photo: Peter Jennings
8:12 Kiwiburn
Kiwiburn is New Zealand's Regional Burning Man festival, currently taking place in Hunterville. We talk to Hippathy Valentine, long-time "burner" and project leader for The Giant Weta.
8:30 Spotlight
Accomplished Dunedin songwriter Nadia Reid performs a mix of old and new songs at Galatos in Auckland as part of last year's Other Way Festival.
9:07 Country Life
Tonight the Country Life team visits a hospital currently caring for a Kereru, two great black-backed gulls, a Kea, a Pukeko and three Little Owls, and meets one on New Zealand’s few alpaca shearers.
10:17 Late Edition
A roundup of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International.
11:07 The Mixtape
For the latest series of the Mixtape, RNZ Music invites guests to compile a C60 of local sounds, and talk us through their selections. As Disasteradio, Luke Rowell creates synth-pop to make even the most staunch shoe-gazer dance, while as vapourwave act Eyeliner he harks back to the heyday of shoulder pads and capitalism.
Music played in this show
Sonic Tonic - Rebirth
Artist: Nina Simone
Song: Feeling Good
Artist: Alice In Chains
Song: Get Born Again
Artist: Mel and Tim
Song: Starting All Over Again
Artist: Björk
Song: Cosmogony
Artist: Beastie Boys
Song: Bodhisattva Vow
Artist: The Beatles
Song: Blackbird
Artist: Ibeyi
Song: River
Artist: Nat King Cole
Song: Pick Yourself Up
Artist: Nico
Song: The Fairest of the Seasons
Artist: Suede
Song: The Next Life
Artist: Van Morrison
Song: Astral Weeks
