Dinah Lee
Best and the Rest 2 - Local Releases
In his penultimate programme of the year, William Dart looks back at some of the local releases he didn't have time for, or didn't have enough time for in earlier programmes. Music by Ebony Lamb, Troy… Audio
First song: Tami Neilson
Tami Neilson is back from touring in the U.S and about to start a special tour in Aotearoa with NZ music legend Dinah Lee. Tami joins Jesse to talk about the upcoming Rock 'n' Roll Revue. Audio
'Once a mod, always a mod' - Dinah Lee to tour with Tami Neilson
The original Mod Girl is living back in NZ and heading out on a Rock'n'Roll Revue with Tami Neilson. Video, Audio
Blue Smoke: Aotearoa Blues
New Zealand musicians embraced the blues boom of the 1960s, inspired mostly by British R&B groups emulating their heroes from the Southern United States and Chicago. In this episode of Blue Smoke… Audio
NZ Music Hall of Fame inducts pioneer artists
Jesse speaks to Dinah Lee, the most successful female artist of the 60s known as the Queen of the Mods about being inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame. Audio
Singer Maria Dallas
From Morrinsville to retirement and inbetween; Maria talks about being the first Kiwi to play The Grand Ole Opry. Audio
When New Zealand bands met the Beatles
New Audioculture director Chris Bourke looks back on the Beatlemania years from a Kiwi perspective. Many local musicians were deeply suspicious of the Fab Four - it had to be a flash in the pan, they… Video, Audio
Musical Siblings - The Clevedonaires/The Cleves/Bitch
In the early 1960s, in a small part of greater Auckland, in the farming community of Clevedon, came the folk indebted band The Clevedonaires, a group chiefly made up of the three Brown siblings -… Audio
New Horizons - 29 June 2014
William Dart joins in the Beatles nostalgia sweeping the country with a small bracket of homegrown treasures, but first he reviews new albums by Laura J Martin, Moulettes, Kishi Bashi, First Aid Kit… Audio
Essential NZ Albums: Introducing... Dinah Lee
In 1964 20-year old Christchurch singer Dinah Lee stormed the national hit parade with her local variation on the Jamaican ska sound. In this programme Nick Bollinger discusses her debut… Audio
Dinah Lee
Dinah Lee is back with a new single, a cover version of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Audio
Musical Chairs - Dinah Lee
In Musical Chairs today is one of the stars of the 1960s, Dinah Lee - her hits were "Do Da Bluebeat", Don't You Know Yokomo", and "Reet Petite", and a string of much loved songs. Audio