Saturday 3 October

2-3 pm
English guitarist Justin Adams has a day job playing in Robert Plant's band, but we talk to him about the musical migrations and connections of the blues from the Mississippi Delta to its African origins.

Nick Bollinger reviews an album of indie-dance collaborations between a Malawian born singer and a couple of European dance producers, 'The Very Best'.

Meet Kenji Sakajiri (pictured below with Grooveman Spot) the man who is helping a number of NZ's new soul producers burst onto the Japanese scene through his Wonderful Noise Productions.

3-4 pm
Trevor Reekie talks to sprightly 78 year old Kearney Barton, whose audio engineering techniques helped define the North Western garage band sound in the 60s.

Deja Voodoo reassess the grunge music obsessions of their youth - and bring it back for their new album, 'The Shape of Grunge of Come''.

4-5 pm
We speak to the best Panda band in the world - Auckland's Bear Cat - about their EP 'Xiong Mao' and the 'real' reasons behind the gentle giant's endangered status.

Australian Duo Oh Mercy were described by Rolling Stone magazine as "Potentially be the freshest, smartest song writing partnership since the Finn brothers" - they pop over to play us some songs.

Supplementary audio: Listen to a collection of recordings and interviews from the Silver Scrolls 2009 Awards ceremony held in Christchurch on 15 September 2009.

Kenji Sakajiri and Grooveman Spot