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.
How could I not have heard of which has recorded so many of my favourite bands right here in central Wellington? Trinity Roots, Hollie Smith, Grayson Gilmore, Fur Patrol, Shihad and many many more have all been recorded in this old spy vault.
But now after 25 years, this building is another to be demolished, and the legendary Munki studios needs to move on. But before they do, there is going to be one hell of a last recording bash there, this weekend, with so many of our best bands all jumping in to honour the music studio that helped make them. And this momentous occasion will be streamed live worldwide, so wherever you are you can join the bands for the final recording at Munki and even help out on the boosted campaign.
Welly’s own “20 feet from Stardom” star Ms Lisa Tomlins and one of Welly’s music scene backbones, Sarah Hunter, talk about why this weekends live stream is so significant.
https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/the-munki-mash-live-stream
Munki Mash Live Stream, tune in 22nd August 2015 transmitworld.tv
#munkimash #transmitworld #shh
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/67158804/Studio-owes-sound-secrets-to-SIS
Lisa Thomlins photo credit – Sarah Hunter
Nick Tipping is a professional jazz bass player from Welly, who plays regularly around town and the country. He has toured with a number of international artists including Grammy winners Mike Stern, Joey DeFrancesco, Kurt Elling as well as a few local greats like Nathan Haines and Roger Fox. He is a member of The Jac, a local 8-piece jazz band which was nominated for Jazz Album of the Year in 2014. In this interview he talks about the PHD he is doing on Wellington’s jazz scene and where he’ll be playing for the .
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
Pat Robins has been a constant female presence in the NZ film industry since the 1970’s. She was also part of the pioneering travelling show Blerta who created their own unique style of entertainment at a time when when New Zealand was merely following what was going on overseas. Blerta consequently spawned a crux of New Zealand’s best creatives of which quite a few are Pat’s family. Now as a great grandmother she is still driven to direct another of her own films, called . Wow.
In this interview I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to Pat live on , about her interesting life, and why she is getting such incredible support from family, friends and some top actresses.
For those of you who are interested here is some more information for the Boosted Crowd funder campaign for Food For Thought – a short film
http://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/food-for-thought-a-short-film
Here is a link to the Blerta song at the end of the interview with all time NZ great vocalist Beaver. http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=Blerta%20Hit%20Us%20With%20The%20Truth
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.