Although he is known as , one of NZ’s favourite music makers Daimon Shwalger, could certainly call Wellington his base after spending alot of time producing music, albums, and a hell of alot of gigs from this fair city. But recently Daimon has also been sharing his 20 years of beat making experience with the kids from . In this interview Daimon and Zeal boss, James Harris talk about the effect and the results that this is having on the kids.
After creating an institution with their Friday Night Drive show on , DJ’s Jim Scott and Max-A-Million celebrated their last show after 5 years.
No big deal perhaps – except they are a father and son duo. In fact Max was practically bought up around the studio as Jim has been contributing to the Radio Active air waves for around 30 years.
I managed to grab this interview with them before Max left for overseas, in which they reflect on what it was like to be a father and son team, their family love of music and the funny things about their time on air together.
Check out the song at the end of the interview. It was the last song Jim played on their last show, Family Affair by Mary J. Blige
Phillipa O’Brien, is a very busy lady right now with two photographic exhibitions about to go up in town. One kicks off this Friday the 27th of June at where Phillipa has developed her own intriguing style of pictorial-scripts called Photofables.
The other is a major lifetime experience, photographing the scene of Danny Lemon’s 8500 collectors item records burnt in the storage fire in Wellington earlier this year. In this interview Phillipa talks about how she saw art in this devastation and made an exhibition of it, which is on now on at .
Phillipa also reveals some interesting stories about Danny Lemon in the South Island high Country, the positive thing she saw in the community through Danny’s sad loss and the simple reason why she wanted to help him out.
For more information on Danny Lemon’s story you can go here ( and please buy a poster). http://dannylemon.com/
And for more of Phillipa O’ Briens work http://www.philippaobrien.com/
and the exhibition : http://www.photospacegallery.com/2014—philippa-obrien.html
An interview with DJ Danny Lemon, who tells the story of Welly’s longest running sound system, the Roots Foundation, what we’ll be hearing for the 21st birthday bash and how his lifelong passion for Roots/ Reggae music has actually changed his life and could change all of ours.
Thanks to Trish from RPM for the photo.
