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Rich Lock

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:23:01 +1300

I ended up listening to Hauraki a reasonable amount in the evenings recently when I'm playing with my daughter and can't be arsed firing up the stereo. Less swearing than Bfm, the music wasn't as teeth-grindingly annoying as the yoof-oriented commercial stations, and the DJ's were slightly less annoying, too.…

Sam F

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:30:34 +1300

I wish ‘classic’ stations weren’t so depressing and repetitive. There’s such a goldmine of incredible things they *could* be playing.

Now, I may possibly be alone in this – but if we could somehow stir together the best bits (there’s usually plenty of them) of RNZ’s Wayne’s Music and Saturday…

Kumara Republic

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:54:54 +1300

They no longer play any '50s to speak of, and play not much '60s gear either.

I believe Solid Gold FM has picked up the mantle – of sorts.

recordari

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:42:55 +1300

Meh.

Maybe I needed to listen to the whole thing, but this was my general feeling on Friday evening. Something something something 'not with a bang but a whimper'.

Perhaps there will by more. More FM? Heaven forfend!

3410

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:57:05 +1300

Word, Danielle. That's what I meant by "[d]efinitely a vast amount of room for improvement". You've got to wonder what the point is in having a playlist that's probably less exiting than the average listener's CD collection.

Danielle

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:02:39 +1300

I wish 'classic' stations weren't so depressing and repetitive. There's such a goldmine of incredible things they *could* be playing. They somehow manage to cut down their playlist to about 50 older songs, and they make everything sound rinky-dinky and nostalgic when it could be weird or awesome. Meh.

Sam F

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:50:37 +1300

They no longer play any '50s to speak of, and play not much '60s gear either.

I think Hauraki still plays a Hendrix song most days and that's pretty much it for the '60s stuff as far as I can tell.

Jacqui Dunn

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:31:03 +1300

The end of an era. I was constantly late for work because I just had to listen to the last few minutes before running in to the radio station I worked for.....turned on to bFM through someone who worked for yet another radio station, and have been a listener since…

3410

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:27:16 +1300

the Hauraki playlist of the more tedious MOR from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

They no longer play any '50s to speak of, and play not much '60s gear either.

Current format seems to be largely a mix of '70s/'80s "classic rock" and the very worst of '90s/'00s post-grunge kind…

Rich of Observationz

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:14:16 +1300

C'mon, I'm sure the man has enough musical taste to not tolerate the Hauraki playlist of the more tedious MOR from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

(Or can one do radio announcing without listening to the music, or whilst listening to entirely different music? Can't see why not, technically).

Rich Lock

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:51:29 +1300

Doesn't Hauraki have a free slot now? Where that Staples chappie was going to do whatever it is these shock-jock types do when they're not getting righteously smacked down?

Wouldn't be surprised to see Mikey pop up again there.

Karen White

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:36:42 +1300

induce me to shout at the radio

particularly when he constantly talked over songs, took calls to air over songs. However it sure is an end of an era.

Sacha

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:34:22 +1300

tended to induce me to shout at the radio

oh how I'll miss him

3410

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:20:31 +1300

Maybe Mikey will be the new Close Up host?

Chris Harvey

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 18:04:55 +1300

Maybe Mikey will be the new TV One Breakfast host?

Anonymous Author

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:03 +1300

Mikey is kaleidoscopic. The seemingly arbitrary havoc of music and talk tumbles and whirls across the airwaves then reassembles as a quite uplifting whole.
The fractured, imperfect moments only add to the beauty of the pattern.
I tend to come away from listening to his shows feeling better; much as…

recordari

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:25:08 +1300

They tended to induce me to shout at the radio, then turn it off for the sake of my family.

But as a mayoral campaign strategy, it was instant satire, after you regained consciousness from hitting your head on something hard.

Russell Brown

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:05:15 +1300

I had the misfortune of stumbling upon his "chats" with Simon Praast a few months ago. I'm reasonably sure my ears still haven't forgiven me.

They tended to induce me to shout at the radio, then turn it off for the sake of my family.

recordari

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:13:43 +1300

Yeah, ciao bella Mikey (it's the hair). It's been real. Have enjoyed his most recent stint on drive, and as you say, Vince is a discovery.

Missing the BDO next year, so here's some Bobbie Gillespie with French group Turzi, Baltimore.

Lovelock remix on Soundcloud ain't half bad either.

Jackie Clark

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:04:24 +1300

Oh, I do love him. Which is a bit strange, considering that I don't listen to BFM. There's only so much obscure and loud and yoof music I can listen to, before my ears shoot off my head in flames. I wish him very, very well in his future endeavours.…

Andre Alessi

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:18:05 +1300

None of this is to deny that Mikey has sometimes driven me nuts as a listener...

I had the misfortune of stumbling upon his "chats" with Simon Praast a few months ago. I'm reasonably sure my ears still haven't forgiven me.

Matt Crawford

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:58:24 +1300

Too slow for tickets to the Wellington gig… cest la vie :)

This week I finally got my mitts on Grayson Gilmour’s No Constellation – it came out in May but there seemed to be a big holdup getting the vinyl pressed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUBu4meuO-g

Buy it on disk and they’re kind…

Simon C

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:44:03 +1300

Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

HORansome

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:12:40 +1300

Given it's a Friday and the custom is to link, chat and the like, I'm going to blow my own horn and recommend people go to Twitter and search/follow the #twecon hashtag. I'm running a little social media experiment; a Twitter-based conference where the papers must be six tweets or…

Public Address

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:12:40 +1300

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