Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Programme Audio

Griffin, Bernie and the Grifters in Session

Trevor Reekie hosts Bernie Griffen and the Grifters in session for Music 101. The songs are: 29 Diamonds; Sometimes I Feel So Sad; The Horse Song; Take the Money and Run. 10 December 2011. (duration: 20′35″)

Access All Areas: Captain Sensible of The Damned

Raymond Burns a.k.a. Captain Sensible was a toilet cleaner in Croyden, outer London, before he joined the Damned and had a musical career unlike many others in punk. When Sensible left the Damned, he reinvented himself as the UK’s least likely pop star. The good Captain Sensible is back on the road with the Damned on their 35th Anniversary World Tour. Trevor Reekie catches up with Captain Sensible... 2 December 2011. (duration: 14′26″)

Access All Areas: Adrian Sherwood - 30 Years of On U Sound

Adrian Sherwood is the elder statesman of UK dub. He's a producer who - in the Jamaican tradition - uses the mixing desk like a musical instrument. He has worked with a who's who of UK and Jamaican artists and is also the founder of the On-U Sound label, one of the UK's most crucial independent labels, which in 2011 celebrates it's 30th anniversary. Trevor Reekie talks to Adrian Sherwood. 25 November 2011. (duration: 13′39″)

Access All Areas: 2Cellos

2CELLOS are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. These Croatian virtuosos have gone from obscurity to near ubiquity in double- quick time. With over 5 million hits on YouTube in less than 3 months, their dueling cellos version of Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal' is taking the world by storm. The 2CELLOS self-titled debut album - featuring unique interpretations of Nirvana, Guns N Roses, U2 and Coldplay - has just been released, and has grown a huge fan base. For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie catches up with Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic in London. 27 August 2011. (duration: 10′27″)

Access All Areas: A Country Divided

The winter of 1981 saw the Springboks rugby team tour New Zealand, and Kiwis divided. Recent Maori attempts to reclaim ownership of government requisitioned land at Bastion Point had focused attention on race relations. The 56-day visit of a white-only team from South Africa during the apartheid regime not only shaped New Zealand history but also a social consciousness that continues to reverberate today. For 'Access All Areas: A Country Divided' Trevor Reekie talks to Simon Grigg from Propeller Records and Will 'llolahia, former Polynesian Panther and the original manager of Herbs about why a sporting event became the source of civil unrest and cultural change in Aotearoa, and how music fitted in. 6 August 2011. (duration: 15′50″)

Access All Areas: Pixie Williams

In 1948 20-year-old Pixie Williams became one of Aotearoa's earliest recording stars with 'Blue Smoke', a song written by Ruru Karaitiana. Now 83, Pixie's old 78 RPMs have been dusted off and remastered for a compilation called 'For The Record'. For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie speaks to Pixie's daughter Amelia Costello, the author of early NZ music book 'Blue Smoke' Chris Bourke, and Tim Fraser who supervised the sound restoration. 23 July 2012. (duration: 15′24″)

Access All Area: Hone Tuwhare - Koha for the Crib

Some of New Zealand's top musicians, artists and poets got together in July 2011 to pay tribute to one of the country's best-loved and most successful poets Hone Tuwhare, and to raise money to preserve and his old 'crib' at Kaka Point, Otago, as a writer's residence. For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie is joined by 'Koha for the Crib' Trustee and organiser of the recent fundraising event Kim Hegan, poet and artist Tracey Tawhiao and Dunedin musicians David Kilgour (The Clean) and Martin Phillips (The Chills), who perform in our studio and discuss writing, Hone Tuwhare's work and legacy. 16 July 2011. (duration: 14′41″)

Access All Areas: Lawrence Lessig

Harvard University Professor of Law Lawrence Lessig is a champion of copyright reform for the digital age. While in Auckland for NetHui 2011 he takes time out to talk to Trevor Reekie about notions of 'fair use' and 'free culture', from hip hop to Gilberto Gil. 2 July 2011. (duration: 14′08″)

Access All Areas: Mark Rogers

Mark Rogers was a founding partner of UK label 'Loose Music' which introduced 'new sounds from the old west' - acts like The Felice Brothers and The Handsome Family - to the UK and Europe. Mark has now relocated to rural Masterton, near Wellington, where he runs his music PR and consultancy business. For Access All Areas Trevor Reekie asks why? 25 June 2011. (duration: 13′10″)

Chico Mann

Marcos Garcia is a born and bred Latino New Yorker, multi instrumentalist and producer who is still the guitarist for Brooklyn-based afrobeat band Antibalas. In recent times Marcos has reinvented himself as Chico Mann. His album 'Analogue Drift' spans retro analogue and electro free-style. As Trevor Reekie finds out...Chico believes "the most important thing is to base art in a tradition". 3 June 2011. (duration: 12′11″)

Access All Areas: Dan Charnas - The Business of Hip-hop

Dan Charnas has been around hip-hop for decades, as a writer for The Source magazine as well as an employee for Rick Rubin's Def American label. He recently published his first book 'The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop'. It is a classic American story about a business that requires 'the soul of a poet and the instincts of a killer'. But the book is not only about the business of hip-hop. It is equally about how hip-hop changed America. Trevor Reekie talks to author Dan Charnas. 28 May 2011. (duration: 19′14″)