Musical Chairs

Today in Musical Chairs we check up on the New Zealanders visiting Austin, Texas, for South By Southwest, the huge annual music festival responsible for helping bands like The Darkness and The White… Read more Audio

Joel Haines first picked up a guitar at the age of five to show his proud father (bass player Kevin Haines) his first composition. In his early teens he was performing six nights a week with the… Read more Audio

Arthur Baysting has been a colourful presence in Kiwi music for more than two decades. He co-wrote the Crocodiles' hit 'Tears' and his songs have been recorded by acts as diverse as Al Hunter and Che… Read more Audio

Through Sir Apirana Ngata's influence, Tuini Ngawai taught Maori culture in schools and went on to lead shearing gangs, even winning the women's section of a shearing competition. Shearing also became… Read more Audio

Nigel 'Booga' Beazley was the singer for 'Head Like a Hole' who dominated Wellington's rock scene throughout the 90's. The band were known as much for their spirited songs that traversed funk, groove… Read more Audio

To the country's artistic multi-taskers, Hinemoana Baker is exemplary. With the release of not only her debut album, 'Puawai', but also her first book of poetry, 'matuhi / needle', baker also hosts… Read more Audio

Meet one of the busiest - and funkiest - horn players in Wellington, Toby Laing. He's known for his trumpeting skills with diverse and successful bands like CL Bob, Twinset, The Black Seeds and Fat… Read more Audio

Pioneering independent record label owner and recording industry boss for the past decade, Terence O'Neill-Joyce was among the first to record local jazz and Pacific Island music. Audio

Terence O'Neill-Joyce, pioneering independent record label owner and recording industry boss for the past decade. He was among the first to record local jazz and Pacific Island music. Audio

Tommy Adderley was a popular entertainer from his arrival from England in the late 1950s until the demise of his popular group Headband in the 1970s. Adderley died in 1993, but before he did, he… Read more Audio

Dusty Spittle was born near Gore in 1939, where he played in local country act, The Mountaineers. In Australia, he established a New Zealand showcase at Tamworth's Country Music Festival and on his… Read more Audio

Record executive John McCready was a major force in the New Zealand music scene for nearly three decades. He was instrumental in developing the careers of many of New Zealand's most beloved artists… Read more Audio