On the Air - Mā runga iarere

Check out all the tunes played with our playlist 'Sounds Like On The Air' below!

12:35 The Musical Acts bringing their Culture to the Far North 

Gerry Paul is an award-winning Dublin-born, New Zealand-raised musician and cultural programmer with over 20 years of international experience. 

Having performed at 500 plus festivals worldwide with artists like Grammy winner Tim O'Brien and Sharon Shannon, he later directed Wellington's CubaDupa festival (2019-2021), developing comprehensive Asian programming.

He joins Maggie Tweedie and Mark Williams in studio to give us a sneak peek of the cultural acts he's bringing to the far north.

1:05 Nick Atkinson gets ready for The Leigh Sawmill Jazz Festival 

Tucked away just North of Auckland, The Leigh Sawmill Cafe is a rare treasure. Buzzing at this time of year with pints of cold beer overflowing, and long summer afternoons of music, which makes it a great home for the return of the Leigh Sawmill Jazz Festival. Nick Atkinson joins us on the show, to chat about the event and his band's unique tour by boat.

Nick's Selection:

• Hopetoun Brown - Put it Down

• Love Square - Nick Move

• Joe Kaptein - Herb Albert

• Julien Dyne - Layer

• The Yoots - Pupu Ake Mai

2:05 Book Recommendations to start the year with Lisa Adler 

Lisa Adler is a former palliative care nurse, an English lit major and a voracious reader. In 2018 she changed chapters and began book selling in 2018, and a few years later in 2022 became the Best Emerging Bookseller at the industry awards.

Lisa joins Maggie Tweedie and Mark Williams on the show with some book recommendations for the new year.

Lisa's Books:

• Family Lexicon, The Road to the City, and All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg

• National Dish by Anya von Bremzen

• What Feelings Do When No One's Looking by Tina Oziewicz

3:05 Search & Rescue host Paul Roy reflects on series

A highly regarded director, writer and producer, Paul Roy has been the principal cameraman on numerous documentaries over the years. Recently he's presented podcasts for RNZ such as Deer Wars and more recently, Search & Rescue NZ. 

Paul Roy dials in from Wanaka to share the stories that have shaped the new series. You can listen to the full podcast here.

4:05 The Logg Cabin: Soul Special

#ICYMI It's a special Summer Edition of the Logg Cabin this week as Mark Williams a.k.a. Loggy Logg quickly discovers that not only is it hard to fit all his selection of soul jams into an hour, there's also a huge list of Aotearoa Soul waiting to be played!

You can listen to more Logg Cabin here.

Songs Played:

• Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night 

• D’Angelo - Send It On 

• Prince - The Beautiful Ones 

• Donald Byrd - Think Twice 

• Erykah Badu - Back in the Day 

• Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love 

• Patrice Rushen - Remind Me 

• Mara TK - Highly Medicated 

• Dallas Tamaira - Spider 

• Louis Baker - So Good 

• Romi Wrights - Capsized 

• Tyra Hammond - Didn’t I 

• Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On 

• Jim Sharp - Hand Stamped - Ecstasy

Songs Played:

12:30pm - 1pm

Jim Sharp - Searching

The Cure - A Forest

Beoga - Anne Bonny

Earth Tongue - The Well of Pristine Order

1pm - 2pm

Jim Sharp - Searching

Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

Mark Ronson - Just ft Alex Greenwald

Hopetoun Brown - Put it Down

Love Square - Nick Move

Joe Kaptein - Herb Albert

Julien Dyne - Layer

The Yoots - Pupu Ake Mai

2pm - 3pm

Jim Sharp - Searching

Omar - There's Nothing Like This

Sade - Sweetest Taboo

Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up

Steve Monite - Only You

Micronism - Rainbow City

Julien Dyne - Your Life ft. Semisi

3pm - 4pm

Jim Sharp - Searching

Little Richard - Green Power

Sleaford Mods - Elitest G.O.A.T. ft. Aldous Harding

The Clash - Rock The Casbah (Ranking Roger)

Dennis Bovell MBE - Dutchie dUb

Recloose - Dust

4pm - 5pm

The Abyssinians – Satta Massagana

Prince - The Beautiful Ones 

Donald Byrd - Think Twice 

Erykah Badu - Back in the Day 

Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love 

Patrice Rushen - Remind Me 

Mara TK - Highly Medicated 

Dallas Tamaira - Spider 

Louis Baker - So Good 

Romi Wrights - Capsized 

Tyra Hammond - Didn’t I 

Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On 

Jim Sharp - Hand Stamped - Ecstasy