Music 101 for Saturday 29 November 2008

29 November

Access All Areas: Trevor Reekie speaks to Charles Cross, author of 'Cobain Unseen' a definitive and personal portrait of the late Nirvana member.

We'll rock out with Luger Boa, the new band led by ex D4 man Jimmy Christmas.

Bill Direen plays a session for us - the local wordsmith and songwriter has been living in Paris, but composed the new album 'Chrysanthemum Storm' in Dunedin and recorded it in Auckland - now Bill Direen and The Bilders are on the road to all points in between.

And Nick Bollinger reviews Benji Hughes'double album A Love Extreme

At 4.10pm: The Secret Life of Music Teachers
Many people have memories - good and bad - of practicing an instrument and going to music lessons as a child.
For the teachers too, conveying the practical and theoretical aspects of music ranges between being a soul destroying challenge, and an exhilarating experience of shared inspiration.
In this programme we meet a 1950s rock obsessive who takes the coolest high school percussion classes in the country; a classically-trained violin teacher on a mission to make music compulsory; an avant garde guitarist who teaches his students never to listen to commercial radio and a choir teacher who truly believes everyone can sing.

Hear two generations of hip hoppers in conversation - local rapper David Dallas and his USA-based b-boying cousin Suga Pop.