An aircheck of RDU during New Zealand Music Week, 30.11.98 to 5.12.98.
Wednesday 2.12.98, 7am - 9am, breakfast show with Graeme; 5pm - 11pm, Drive show, No Mans Land womens show, Sheep Technique, NZ music show.
98/126/05: 7-9am
Intermittent radio commercials throughout programme, news updates every half hour read by Kelly [?]. New Zealand music includes LRS, Demarnia Lloyd, The Tall Dwarfs, The Renderers, Head Like a Hole, Mestar, Lanky, The Nomad, King Kapasi, Salmonella Dub, 50 Hertz, Range, Merrin, Dave Mitchell and Denise Roughan. Surf report from New Brighton with Matt, ‘Political Correspondent’ interview with Labour list MP Ruth Dyson, rdu give-a-ways and the gig guide.
98/126/06: 5-7pm
Intermittent radio commercials throughout programme. 'The Drive Show' hosted by Toby [?]. Music includes This Kind of Punishment, Darcy Clay, Straightjacket Fits, Headless Chickens, Shihad, Beckoning South, Abel Tasmans, Proud Scum, Wadd, Salmonella Dub, [Urman], Voom, Gasoline Cowboy, Pitch Black, Dana Eclair, Shaft, Inchworm, Hiss Explosion, Che Fu and Chainsaw Masochist. Rdu gig and accommodation guides.
98/126/07: 7-9pm
Becks hosts the woman’s show, ‘No Man’s Land’ playing all women artists including; Look Blue Go Purple, The Renderers, Sisters Underground, Snort, Mary, Kaye Woodward, Emma Paki, J. [Clarkson], Strawpeople, Celia Mancini, Fur Patrol, Demarnia Lloyd, Cloudboy, Like Water, Stella, Bic Runga, Karen Hunter, Lizzie Cook, Loungehead, Theo Ray, Claire Falloon, Moana and the Moa Hunters, Hawaii Five-O, Beckoning South, Diana Leigh, Yandell Sisters, The Chicks, Alison Durban, and Ben and Greta. Intermittent radio commercials throughout programme, rdu give-a-ways and gig guide.
98/126/08: 9-11pm
[?] hosts ‘The Sheep Technique’ with live solo performances from Christchurch female vocalist, Fleur de Lys and musician, Mike Hex. Other New Zealand playlist music includes; The Clean, King Loser, Hasselhoff Experiment, Puddle, Bernard’s Star, Alf Danielson, Paul Kean, Pitch Black and Celia Mancini. ‘Unchartered’ a radio documentary follows the development of New Zealand band, ‘Bailter Space’ in a phone interview Alister Parker (guitar, bass) describes the band’s journey from Flying Nunn Records to Matador Records, New York (programme includes brief interviews with Murray Cammick, from Wildside Records and Paul [Macessa] from Flying Nunn Records). Scheduled interview with Christchurch guitarist and composer Roy Montgomery postposed due to family illness.