RADIO GA GA’S SENSATIONAL SINGLE NAME SINGERS

Singers with a single name. Hmmm, we know the well known ones such as Madonna, Sting, Jewel, Adele, Cher, Gotye, Shakira and Donovan. You are sure to hear some of them on this weeks Radio Ga Ga, but what about the more obscure performers, the one hit wonders and the briefly blazing stars such as Oliver, Keith, Falco, Harpo and

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Playlist for the Midnight Mass program Wednesday July 2nd

The playlist for the rather estimable, perfunctory and somewhat exemplary Midnight Mass program tonight from 12am til 2am is :   SONIC YOUTH – Sugar Kane THE BIRTHDAY PARTY – Mr Clarinet WEEN – The Rift COIL – Christmas Is Now Drawing Near BJORK – All Is Full Of Love FLAMING LIPS – Oh My Pregnant Head JIM O’ROURKE –

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PODCAST – THE PURPLE HAZE ARCHIVE presents 1960s SAN FRANCISCAN SOUND MUSIC LEGEND: COUNTRY JOE McDONALD

  Country Joe & the Fish were one of the seminal bands of the 1960s ‘San Franciscan Sound’. Originating from Berkeley, California their folk, psychedelic pop rock, & protest songs defined a generation. Best known for perhaps the most famous (or infamous) anti-Vietnam War song of them all: The I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag, which was immortalised at the renowned Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. Country Joe

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Film review: GARDENING WITH SOUL, from Built For Speed

New Zealand documentary Gardening with Soul presents the charming and at times poignant story of 90-year-old Sister Loyola Galvin who oversees the garden at the Home of Compassion in Island Bay Wellington.  With Sister Loyola narrating, the film explores her daily life tending to residents of the home and to her garden.  The film also delves into her history as

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