95bFM Drive with Nicholas

This week we are out of the studio and are broadcasting live from the Beer Spot Morningside. We have two great Friday Live acts. Including the great Joe Kaptein and Crystal Chen!

Thanks to the Beer Spot

Kia ora e hoa mā! Welcome back to Rāpare Drive with HALFQUEEN. E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today: Marijuana Media thanks to The Hemp Store, a kōrero with Karen Nyame KG ahead of The Others Way and Filth, and Cocktail Corner thanks to Thomson Whiskey! Whakarongo mai nei. 

Thanks to The Beer Spot!

A stacked show! Sara and Molly speak with Josh about stranded astronauts, new images of the interstellar comet, and NASA's plan to return to the moon next year on Spaced Out with Josh, thanks to the Stardome. Then, author Craig Robertson phones in to discuss his new book, a comprehensive biography of Chris Knox titled Not Given Lightly, out now via Auckland University Press. Later the 'Godmother of Rock n Roll'; bassist of Dead Moon and Pierced Arrows; all the way from Clackamas, Oregon; Toody Cole is in the studio to yarn about her tour of Aotearoa alongisde Jenny Don't & The Spurs. 

Plus, our weekly recap of Te Tekau o Runga Rereka o Aotearoa SRN Top Ten.

Thanks to The Beer Spot!

Molly speaks with Craig Robertson, a professor in Media Studies at Northeastern University over in the U.S., former writer for Aotearoa’s longest running music mag Rip It Up, who's back in Aotearoa to tour his newly published book, Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly. Published via Auckland University Press, the biographry is a comprehensive account of Knox's life and career from Invercargill to current day. It's an honest account of an artist who's innumerable creative outputs since the '70s have cemented his place as behemoth in the musical landscape and cultural history of this country.

You'll be able to catch Craig in conversation with Russell Brown at Real Groovy from 6pm, alongside Don McGlashan and SJD, Groopchat and Gemma Gracewood.

Whakarongo mai nei!