Hosted by Graham Reid Sundays 1pm - 2pm
Thursdays 2pm-3pm

 

Graham Reid has been writing about New Zealand music, musicians and Kiwi musical culture of all kinds for almost 30 years. In the early 80s he had his own "jazz and elsewhere" magazine Passages, in the late 80s he started a 17 year residency at the New Zealand Herald as music journalist/critic/reviewer, he was the New Zealand correspondent for Billboard magazine, has hosted radio shows and written liner notes for dozens of Kiwi albums, and is well respected for his integrity if not his taste which has appalling lapses into kitsch and vacuous pop music. He avidly collects old Kiwi vinyl but is just as comfortable in a bar listening to band of noisy teenagers making a godawful rock'n'roll racket. He lectures in journalism and music, is in demand as a guest speaker, and his book Postcards From Elsewhere won the Whitcoulls Travel Book of the Year award in 2006. At his music/travel website www.elsewhere.co.nz he posts new music every week.

Some weeks Graham will be doing vinyl-only shows which will allow you to hear almost forgotten bands like Big Sideways and Avant Garage, some free jazz from Wellington, oddball rock, experimental music, avant-classical and avant-rock, and music from albums you thought had been lost forever. Graham will be dishing out Buddhist-dance and Krishna-rock, guitar orchestras, Afrojazz from Auckland, te reo reggae using traditional instruments, poetry and rants, Soviet surfer rock . . .

So go with Graham into these Sidestreets. Because if he does'nt take you there, no one will

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