93: Steven ‘Tipene’ Hamer is a rapper, music producer, grafter, youth worker, & advocate. In 2019 he was named Best Urban Artist at the Waiata Music Awards.

Episode 83: Peter Urlich

83: Peter Urlich is a musician, entertainer, & Renaissance man. He is a Dude, one ½ of Nice & Urlich, TV band manager, broadcaster & dancer with the stars.

Episode 82: Julia Deans

82: Julia Deans has been performing & making music for over 25 years, fronting Fur Patrol before forging a solo career alongside other performance projects.

Lewis Tennant14 December 2019Julia Deans, Anika Moa, Natalia Shepherd, Wellington, NZ Music, Fur Patrol, Allan Clark, Neil FinnComment

Episode 80: Gene & Cian

80: Gene Jouavel & Cian O’Donnell were part of a team who in 1999 began dispensing speciality rhythms, congregations, & nocturnal health tonics on Galatos St.

Episode 79: Danny McCrum

79: Danny McCrum is a musician, entrepreneur, and co-host of podcast ‘Don’t Give up your Day Job’. His fourth album Hustle Bustle will be released shortly.

Lewis Tennant21 July 2019NZ Music, Don't Give Up Your Day Job, NZ Podcasts, Music Industry, NZ History, Auckland, CareerComment

Episode 59: Andrew Spraggon

59: Andrew Spraggon is a songwriter, producer, musician, & manager who has piloted the festival-favourite musical collective Sola Rosa for nearly 20 years.

Lewis Tennant25 June 2018Sola Rosa, NZ Music, Mental Health, Cooking, Touring, Artist Management, Music Industry, Base FM, bFMComment

Episode 54: Dave Benge

54: Dave Benge is general manager of VIce NZ, coming from a career in music management & touring. He managed Fur Patrol, Cut Off Your Hands & Aldous Harding.

Lewis Tennant6 March 2018NZ Music, Orientation, Victoria University, Vice, Christianity, Family, Shihad, Fur Patrol, WellingtonComment

Episode 53: Andrew Boak

53: Andrew Boak formed punk band No Tag in the 1980s while working on Radio B. Now in San Fran, Andrew still plays music while working in Silicon Valley.

Lewis Tennant6 February 2018No Tag, Punk, Auckland, 1980s NZ, Radio B, bFM, Silicon Valley, Apple, Drum & Bass, Imperial Dub, Harry the Bastard, NZ Music, TrumpComment

Episode 52: Lily Chalmers

52: Lily Chalmers is an organiser, innovator, & advocate who runs the Naenae Clubhouse, a space that encourages the creativity & ambition of Naenae youth.

Lewis Tennant22 January 2018Community, Youth, Radio Active, NZ Music, Prince, Music Industry, Mu, Japan, Osaka, Wellington', Planet E, RecordsComment

Episode 24: Raiza Biza

24: Raiza Biza is a Congo-born New Zealand rapper of Rwandan heritage. He is aligned with YGB and heads a collective of artists under the banner AmmoNation.

Lewis Tennant4 May 2017NZ Hip Hop, YGB, Rwanda, NZ Music, Immigrant Experience, Universal Truth, PhilosophyComment

Episode Eighteen: DJ Dubhead

18: Patrick Waller is a record collector, rhythm selector, radio presenter, musician and producer. He has hosted bFM’s The Rhythm Selection since 1990.

Lewis Tennant21 March 2017The Rhythm Selection, DJ, Reggae, Dub, 1980s NZ, bFM, Radio, Sausages, AUT, NZ Music, NZ Hip Hop, NZ ReggaeComment

Episode Three: Mikee Tucker

3: Mikee Tucker founded independent label Loop Recordings, produces for Think INC & TEDxAuckland, and was campaign manager for Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party.

Episode One: Thomas Watts

1: Thomas Watts dances erogenously in alt-rock band Villainy, produces NZ TV panel show Seven Days, and teaches students how to make audio stories at AUT.

Lewis Tennant24 November 2016Villainy, New Zealand Music, AUT University, AUT Communications, Seven Days, Exotic Beards, NZ Music Comment