Episode Playlist
2025 Episode 04 - Ce Goacher( 0:50:2)
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In the final episode of the 2025 series I talk to Ce Goacher (Synthetic Children, Khaki Department, either eyether) about her development from a teenage poet to one of the most interesting and powerful synth-wielders currently active in Manawatū. We chat about her idiosyncratic and evolving hardware synth setup, the challenges of integrating that approach into a band setting, and the specific way that Manawatū musicians support one another (and how that leads to a million one-album and/or one-gig bands).
Find Synthetic Children at: https://syntheticchildren.bandcamp.com
A radio show/podcast produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.
Published: 28/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2025 Episode 03 - Maeve Egan( 0:48:11)
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In the penultimate interview of the 2025 series I talk to Maeve Egan, who has pretty recently become a rising light in local music both with her solo work and her band Pining Radiata. We chat about her early musical experiments wringing scores for imaginary movies out of MIDI and scoring software, as well as the growth of her songwriting practice, and the way that's changed through working in a band setting.
Find Maeve's solo work at maeve1.bandcamp.com, and Pining Radiata at pingingradiata.bandcamp.com!
A radio show/podcast produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.
Published: 21/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2025 Episode 02 - Jordan Kupe( 0:53:56)
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In the second interview of the series I talk to Jordan Kupe (Khaki Department, Beef, Radio Control) about his journey into playing music, starting with a childhood spent playing (and engineering for) worship bands. We also talk about the state of the music landscape both locally and nationwide in 2025, and the challenges and joys of working in community-scale radio.
Find Khaki Department here: https://khakidepartment.bandcamp.com, Beef here: https://beefmanawatu.bandcamp.com and keep track of Radio Control over here: www.radiocontrol.org.nz
A radio show/podcast produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.
Published: 14/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2025 Episode 01 - Dan Brown( 0:56:40)
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We kick off the 2025 season of Interviews HD by talking to Dan Brown of literally too many bands to list here. We get into his musical history as "the one brown kid in Feilding" and his later discovery of the weird fringes of Palmy's 90s music scene, as well as the multifarious projects that come from The Shed, and some of the unique factors that make Manawatū special from a musical standpoint. Find all things Dan Brown at https://horsepants.bandcamp.com
A radio show/podcast produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.
Published: 7/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2023 Episode 05 - Hana Tamatea( 0:52:18)
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In my final episode for 2023 I talk to Hana of the reggae band Ripple Effect (among many other projects!) We chat about her inspirations, the process of working in a large group, and the resources she's found valuable in terms of forging a path in music here in the Manawatū. Also, we both blank on a name in the course of the episode and the person we mean is Anika Moa.
Published: 5/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2023 Episode 04 - Glen Boyle( 0:38:30)
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Glen will be familiar to regular MPR listeners as one of the hosts of The Audio Archive, a regular eclectic music (and sometimes comedy) show. We chat about his fascination with jazz, and his long association with the Jazz Festival, and local jazz musicians.
Published: 4/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2023 Episode 03 - Sarah Bingle( 0:54:23)
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Sarah Bingle has had a long and fascinating career around the weird edges of the Palmerston North music scene. We talk about her many bands, the strange places they took her, and the experience of growing into first a percussionist and then a kit drummer in the process of doing it. We also talk about the various ways that music may or may not be magic, or possibly telepathy. This is a Good One.
Published: 3/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2023 Episode 02 - Amelia Shadbolt( 0:49:56)
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Amelia has been a stalwart of the Palmy indie scene basically forever in a huge range of different projects (punk, indie, sad chanteuse, classic hits ukulele chorus) and playing different roles in different bands. We chat about how all of that came to be, and where she sees the appeal of music and the root of creativity.
Published: 2/05/2025 8:00:00 p.m.
2023 Episode 01 - Ray Woodley( 0:47:29)
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Hugh chats to Ray Woodley about his extensive career in Palmerston North music, from playing piano for dances in the 1940s through to becoming (almost literally) every jazz band's banjo player in the 1980s, and continuing to play and appreciate music into his 90s. A radio show/podcast produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand on Air.
Published: 1/05/2023 8:00:00 a.m.