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Musical Chairs - South By Southwest
7 May 2005Today 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
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Musical Chairs - Joel Haines
30 Apr 2005Joel 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
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Musical Chairs - Arthur Baysting
11 Dec 2004Arthur 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
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Musical Chairs - Tuini Ngawai (Part Two)
4 Dec 2004Through 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
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Musical Chairs - Booga Beazley
20 Nov 2004Nigel '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
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Musical Chairs - Hinemoana Baker
30 Oct 2004To 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
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Musical Chairs - Toby Laing
23 Oct 2004Meet 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
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Musical Chairs - Terence O'Neill-Joyce (Part Two)
9 Oct 2004Pioneering 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
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Musical Chairs - Terence O'Neill-Joyce (Part One)
2 Oct 2004Terence 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
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Musical Chairs - Tommy Adderley
21 Aug 2004Tommy 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
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Musical Chairs - Dusty Spittle
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
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Musical Chairs - John McCready
7 Aug 2004Record 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
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