Nights for Friday 3 June 2011
7:06 Sonic Tonic
8 pm News and Weather
8:06 Live: Family Cactus
Family Cactus is a Wellington quintet making melodramatic, driving indie-pop. The band formed at the end of 2007, and their debut Come Howling was applauded by critics, with Graham Reid noting its "Dramatic, crafted, and seductive" sounds.
After a few months spent living in New York last year, the band is back with their second album, Spirit Lights. We recorded some of their new songs at Erskine College, a ramshackle, but majestic old building near Wellington's south coast, and spoke to lead singer and songwriter Adam Ladley.
Find out more and listen again.
Family Cactus live at Erskine College.
8:35 NZ Radio Design Winners 2011
Standards were so high this year that two designs have been picked by the raft of judges (including Bryan Crump and Sir Richard Taylor from WETA) to be made into models: Matt Purcell, student at Whitecliffe School of Art Auckland, with 'Splitting the Atom'; and EIT Hawkes Bay student Amelia Haliday, with 'Gumboot'...
8:50 Conundrum
The answer and the winner's chosen song.
9 pm News and Weather
9:06 Country Life
Rural news and features.
10 pm News and Weather
10:17 Late Edition
A review of the leading news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11 pm News and Weather
11:06 The Canterbury Scene: Britain's Lost Progressive Rock Music
This week we meet prog rock messiahs, David Allen, Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt. These three greats of 70s progressive rock had intertwining paths through their association in Soft Machine and the Canterbury Scene. Thomas Goss charts their solo careers and influence on British music. (Pt 3 of 6, RNZ)