Music 101 for Saturday 7 September 2024

 

1.20 Tami Neilson on joining Willie Nelson’s tribe

Tami Neilson, the Canadian born/ NZ-based country singer, has broken new ground for Kiwi country music - she has been welcomed into Willie Nelson’s tribe. 

Last year we heard the beautiful duet she sang with Willie ‘Beyond the Stars’, and that song is now part of a collection of Willie Nelson covers that Tami recorded in Willie’s studio in Texas. 

It’s a dream come true, but I feel like we’ve been saying that a lot lately about Tami, who is about to play country music's greatest stage - the Grand Ole Opry and later the iconic Dollywood.

Neilson sings Nelson was released just yesterday.

2.15   Drummer Chris O’Connor’s new gig as a music therapist 

This week marks 50 years of music therapy in Aotearoa.  

Chris O’Connor, drummer for The Phoenix Foundation, joins Charlotte Ryan in studio to talk about his new career as a music therapist and the impact it has made. 

To mark the anniversary there will be a three day music therapy conference in Wellington from 13 - 15 September with speakers from around the world.

Details of the conference here

3.15   Georgia Gets By: ‘This EP is therapy sessions with myself’

Georgia Gets By, the project of New Zealand’s Georgia Nott, has released a new EP Split Lip. 

Georgia is one half of the Nelson duo Broods, the electronic project she started with her brother over a decade ago. The duo were a global phenomenon, touring internationally and opening for artists like Taylor Swift, HAIM, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, and more. 

Georgia joins Charlotte from L.A and talks about the challenges of starting so young in the music industry, and the voice she’s found making this new EP.  

3.40  The Sampler: On 1994s classic albums by R.E.M, Weezer and Blur

Tony Stamp looks back at three albums turning 30 this year. This week R.E.M, Weezer and Blur get a replay on The Sampler.

4pm  The Mixtape: Comedian and children’s author David Walliams 

Our guest today picking the music is one of Britain's most controversial comedians and best-loved children's authors, David Walliams.

Walliams came to fame alongside Matt Lucas with the BBC comedy series Little Britain, and Come Fly With Me, and later was a judge on the television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent on ITV.

Fifteen years ago Walliams started writing children’s books, and has gone on to become one of the world's most popular children's authors, having spent more weeks in the children’s charts than any other author - including Roald Dahl. 

His brave and sensitive characters in books like The Boy in the Dress and Gangsta Granny have reignited reading for a generation.

David Walliams is coming to New Zealand later this month with two shows: An Audience with David Walliams for grown ups, and The David Walliams Book Show for both the kids and the grandparents. 

 

Songs played on the show

1-2

Crazy P - Heartbreaker
Sergio Mendes - Magalenha
Nadia Reid - Changed Unchained
Tami Neilson live - I Never Cared for You
Lauren Auder and Wendy & Lisa -  I Would Die 4 U
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - In the Image
Teacher - Nearly Daffodils
BENEE - Sad Boiii
 

2-3

Khruangbin - Pon Pón
Leon Bridges - River
Blood Orange - Charcoal Baby
Ma - Korero Mai feat chase woods 
Salmonella Dub - Never Too Late ft. Nino Birch 
Jungle - Lets Go Back 
Noumuso - Kids in the Sun
Delaney Davidson - Out of my head 
Fur Patrol - Andrew
 

3-4

Broods - Bridges instrumental
MOKOTRON - Ohaki
Yannis & The Yaw - Walk Through Fire (feat. Tony Allen)
Louisa Nicklin - Thick 
The Cure - Close to Me
Georgia Gets By - Not this time
Teenage Dads - Speedracer
Japes - ‘Process’
Bronski Beat, The Knocks - Smalltown Boy (feat. Perfume Genius) 

David's Mixtape songs:

 

Louis Armstrong - We have all the time the world 

Herb Alpert – This guys in love with you

Passengers & Pavorotti – Miss Sarajevo

Ella Fitzgerald - Under my skin 

The Smiths – How Soon is Now