Slacker, live at BFM, 1994

Auckland acid jazz band Slacker perform live to air from the Radio 95bFM reception area for the Sunday Jazz Show, back in 1994. Engineer: Jules Barnett.

Peter Mac on BFM's Bright N Urlich, 9-11am playlist

James Brown - Funky drummer - DJ Muro remix
Ramsey Lewis Trio - In crowd
Chakachas - Jungle fever
The bang gang - Who said honkies aint got soul
Solange - Losing you
House party - Dangerous love inst
Scritti Politti - Absolut version
Nile Rodgers - Land of the good groove
The Clash - Magnificent dance
Bob Marley - Mr chatterbox
Marcia Griffiths - Feel like jumping
Esso trinidad steel band - I want you back
Ladi6 - Diamonds
Hallelujah Picassos - Rewind
Patea Maori Club - Poi-e - Peter Mac dicso drums edit
Maori Hifive -Poi poi twist
The Yoots - Pupu ake mai
Herbs - French letter dub
Fat Freddys Drop - Hope - Sonsine remix
Lee Scratch Perry - Jungle youth - Congo natty remix
Ragga twins - Ragga trip
Jose Feliciano - She's a woman
Spanky Wilson - Sunshine of your love
Bad brains - Return to heaven
DLT - Black panthers
Riot jazz brass band - Slinky
Feelstyle - Suamalie aint mad at you
Dub asylum - Ba ba boom

Radio, Radio - student radio doco coming soon

BFM's mag Book Of Bifim, cover by Chris Knox

Paul Casserly (tv director for Havoc, Eating Media Lunch etc, and musician as Strawpeople) is making a TV documentary on the history of student radio, see this Facebook page.

"Working title: Radio, Radio. A one hour documentary about alternative student radio in NZ, including 95BFM, Radio Active, RDU, Radio One, Control ...

We're casting the net wide as we research the doco. Particularly on the lookout for any video/film and photos. I'll also be posting stuff I come across along the way. The plan is to make a one hour doco for the Prime Rocks series so we will also be featuring plenty of local alternative music.

Contact Paul Casserly for Perendale Productions. paulcasserly@gmail.com

Greg Johnson doing a show in the mid 1980s. He also recorded an EP in the
station's production studio under the name of This Boy Rob.

BDO 97 mini-documentary

Big Day Out 2014 tickets went on sale on Monday, they sold 10,000 early bird tickets in 45 minutes, then released a further 10,000. Obviously the lineup has attracted some solid interest, which is great news for the promoters. They got the mix of acts right for their audience.

Flashback to late 1996... The local organisers for the Big Day Out announced that the 1997 BDO may well be the last one in Auckland. This may or may not have been done to help sell tickets, but of course, the BDO did came back.

I decided to make a documentary on the so-called 'last' BDO, and borrowed a video camera from work. I shot lots of local bands - Fontanelle (w Mikey Havoc), DLT and the True School (Che Fu, Danny D, Asterix, Slave), Tall Dwarfs, Thorazine Shuffle, Bailter Space etc.

Watch out for BFM folks Gemma Gracewood, Nick D'Angelo, and the voices of Hugh Sundae and Bob Kerrigan, amongst others. And lots of loose unit punters.

Director/camera/editor: Peter McLennan, camera/interviewer: Adrianne Rikihana, radio broadcasts from the BDO courtesy of BFM.