Nights for Friday 5 July 2024

8:15 Pacific Waves

A daily current affairs programme that delves deeper into the major stories of the week, through a Pacific lens, and shines a light on issues affecting Pacific people wherever they are in the world. Hosted by Susana Suisuiki.

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8.30 Battle of the Bands 2024 finals

For the past four months, hundreds of bands across the country have been going head to head in the hope of being crowned the battle of the bands 2024 national champion.

The competition has been an annual feature of the New Zealand music scene since 1993 and previous finalists and winners include bands like Opshop, Tadpole and Blindspott.

This year's finals are being held at Valhalla in Wellington over the next two nights and organiser Andrew Featherstone speaks to Emile Donovan.

8:35 Tenuous Connections

 It's Friday Night so it's time to put on a playlist of music with a loose theme based off an even looser starting point Tonight it's songs about battles! 

9:07 Nights Quiz

Do you know your stuff? Come on the air and be grilled by Emile Donovan as he dons his quizmaster hat.

If you get an answer right, you move on to the next question. If you get it wrong, your time in the chair is up, and the next caller will be put through. The person with the most correct answers at the end of the run goes in the draw for a weekly prize.

The quiz is themed - find out more about tonight's theme on Nights' Facebook page.

9:15 This Weekend: Skating for the disabled community

Every Friday, we bring you some of the most interesting events and happenings coming up in Aotearoa this weekend - from the community fairs to the massive concerts.

Tonight we're chatting to Amber Clyde from Girls Skate who are running a skateboarding programme specially catered to the disabled community in Tāmaki Makaurau this Sunday.

9:30 Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

It's time for Short-Cuts with Nights' resident screen critic Dan Slevin.

Dan chats with Emile Donovan about Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story the story of a Shetland man befriending an orphaned otter, Fancy Dance featuring Lily Gladstone from Killers of the Flower Moon who stars as a Native American woman trying to look after her teenage niece when her sister goes missing and Wind River now playing on TVNZ + 

10:17 The life of a radical queer rabbi

A new documentary, 21 years in the making, follows the first openly-gay Jewish rabbi in a 38-generation family dynasty of rabbis.

New York-based filmmaker Sandi DuBowski is the director of Sabbath Queen, which is screening in New Zealand for the DocEdge film festival.

He joins Emile Donovan.

10:30 Out Lately with Finn Johansson

He's back, and no doubt ready to inform, educate and entertain us with an array of eclectic music.

Finn is back with bag of fresh tracks, tonight he's got new music from acoustic improvisers Unknow to Known, singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy and Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Joanna Wang

11:07 Postcards from Berlin

Maggie Tweedie and music producer and DJ Kava McIntyre for a journey of music through the streets of Berlin   

Kava McIntyre is a DJ and taste maker from Aotearoa who has his finger on the pulse of night club culture. 
Now based in Germany with his wife and daughter he is immersed in Europe's musical epicentre, Berlin. 

Featuring Napoli boogie and dub reworks to German Baleriac this is a postcard from the underground a slice of DJ Kava's musical life in Berlin.