The TAHI

Music, culture and laughs coming to you every Tuesday & Thursday. The TAHI crew catch up with your favourite local creatives and newsmakers, keeping you in the know on the goings-on.

Hosted by So'omālō Iteni Schwalger and Janay Harding

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14th December 2023

Our last episode of the year! It's Evie's birthday so we gave her 5 minutes to spit out opinions, Waimirirangi reminisces on being her own biggest fan as a child, and certified NZ Barb Quin Tauetau gives his thoughts on the new Nicki Minaj album.
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12th December 2023

On today's episode, Banjo of Auckland trance rock band PSYCHOWOLF chats about starting up an independent label. We get into Aotearoa's most searched terms of 2023, and So'omalo wonders why washing machines have to lie to us.

7th December 2023

On today's show, we introduce you to Sharni Daze, a local artist combining house music and pop. So'omālō catches up with neo-seoul jazz musician Tusekah, and we try to figure out why streaming services are so expensive now.
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5th December 2023

We are officially an award winning podcast! On today's show, Rei reflects on 2023 and chats about his latest track 'Tīoi', R&B songstress Lara Andello zooms in before heading on the next leg of her tour, and we discuss how to budget for the dentist.
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30th November 2023

On today's show Evie catches up with childhood friend and award-winning artist Vera Ellen, So'omālō chats with TAHI fan and aspiring music journalist Mia Faiumu, plus we get vulnies and reveal our youtube habits.

28th November 2023

On today's show global country music artist Kaylee Bell chats about her new tour, the nicest man on earth Myshaan tells us when he's finally releasing his Tiktok famous waiata and we discuss some of Aotearoa's most interesting place names
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23rd November 2023

On Today's show, So'omālō is away so it's girls show!! (plus Harry). Kenzie from Welly joins us to talk about her single with Poetik, Crystal Choi of Phoebe Rings talks about the groups new Korean language single and Evie is unsupervised so there's a lot of anime talk.
Green and blue background with text: Trust US. Music and Culture. Kind of our thing.

21st November 2023

On today's show, we welcome back Harry and Evie from their various vacations! We discuss the drama at Newmarket carpark, get the low-down on Italian seagulls, and re-cap the League of Legends World Championship.
Evie & So'omalo

16th November 2023

It's a big one, on today's show, Aaradhna, what more can we say, also joining us is the incredibly talented YAHYAH, it doesn't get much better than this folks!
So'omālō Iteni Schwalger, sitting with Aaradhna, in TAHI Studio for interview.

14th November 2023

When Evie's away, the mice...? Evie usually writes these things, So'omalo and Waimirirangi here, we're holding things down while everyone's away - On the show today we have Brandn Shiraz and Jupita joining us, it's music, it's culture, it's our thing!
So'omālō Iteni Schwalger, sitting with Brandn Shiraz and Bryce Tobin, in TAHI Studio for interview.

9th November 2023

On today's show, Evie catches up with celebrity bird debate moderator Katie Fitzgerald, So'omālō talks music with KY Canoy, and Waimirirangi shares wisdom passed onto her from the Kaumātua
So'omālō Iteni Schwalger, sitting with KY Canoy, in TAHI Studio for interview.

7th November 2023

On today's show, music video extraordinaires Sports Team chats with Evie about their first-ever feature film, Waimirirangi fills us in on her trip to Te Tai Tokerau, and So'omālō wants us all to go barefoot this summer.
Evie Orpe and Sports Team on The TAHI

2nd November 2023

On today's show, Tim Provise talks about all his different jobs - from hosting to being 'The Pie Guy', Coast Arcade opens up about the changes in their band lineup, and we get passionate about Bird of the Century.
So'omālō and Tim Provise for The TAHI

31st October 2023 (Halloween)

On today's show, it's Halloween! Comedian Liv McKenzie joins Evie to giggle through a conversation about her show 'Cubicle Confessions', Timmy the First talks with So'omālō about his latest single and we round up the Rugby World Cup 2023.
Liv McKenzie and Evie Orpe for The TAHI's Halloween episode

26th October 2023

On today's show, So'omālō talks to Ben Horlock of Mirage about their debut single, Rebel Reid of Valkyrie gets candid with Evie about grief and her new project, and X (FKA Twitter) costs $1 now! We decide who we'd actually pay a dollar for their opinion.
Rebel Reid and Evie Orpe smile in studio during their interview for The TAHI

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