Hostile Takeover

In the mean time here are some albums / tracks I've been listening to as well as some LGBTQ+ artists that you should support during pride month (and also all the other months).

Joni Mitchell - Literally anything by her (not Art Nouveau though)

John Prine - Literally anything by him

Aldous Harding (NZ) - Train on the Island

Kneecap - FENIAN

The Last Dinner Party - Big Dog

Sonny Rollins (RIP) - Way Out West

Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q

G.L.O.S.S. - TRANS DAY OF REVENGE

Cut Shapez (NZ) - LGBT HxC

Willi Carlisle - Cheap Cocaine

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159 days until the election.

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MONDAY 25TH MAY 2026
25th May 2026 NZ Music Month!!!

Songs Played

Poodles of Nuke ‘em High (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – The Stench

PCP EAGLES (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – The Ballad of Stuart Young

Vagina Dry (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Brutalised

Unsanitary Napkin (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Peter Thiel (Literal Fucking Vampire)

Postnatal Abortion (Heretaunga / Hawkes Bay) – Slappucino

Sogg (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Watch It

Cripple Mr Onion (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Rumour Mill

Lucid Shift (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Wasted Flesh (feat. Honest Crooks)

Alien Weaponry (Waipu) – Mau Moko

Head Like a Hole (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Hootenanny

Elemeno P (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - Nirvana

Dead Flowers (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Better Dead Than a Country Singer

Kiko (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Āwhā

Darcy Clay (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – All I Gotta Do

The Beths (Tāmaki Makaurau) – Ark Of The Covenant

Vaughan Gunson / Sad Boxer (Whangārei) – the responsible hordes

Dateline (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Nothing

Bunchy’s Big Score (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – You Are a Camera

Delaney Davidson (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) – Listen to the Stars

Marlon Williams (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) – Pōkaia Rā Te Marama

The Warratahs (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – St Peters Rendezvous

The Eastern (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) – Talking Americana Cowboy Yeeha Blues

Topp Twins (Rahui-Pōkeka / Huntly) – Local Farmhand

Topp Twins (Rahui-Pōkeka / Huntly) – Ngā Iwi E

Logan Edwards (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Isla

R.I.P. Jools Topp

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166 days until the election.

MONDAY 18TH MAY 2026
18th May 2026 NZ Music Month!!!

Songs Played

Shihad (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – La La Land

Die! Die! Die! (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – This Is Not An Island Anymore

The Instigators (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Hope She’s Alright

Proud Scum (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Suicide

No Tag (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Legalised Dogs

Terroways (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – She’s a Mod

Seek Help! (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Apex Predator

Bear Trap (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – BOATS

Cootie Cuties (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Succubus

Bin Day (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – FUCK OFF

DARTZ (Te Whanganui-a-tara) / Wellington) – Moving To Melbourne

Crying Ivy (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Respirator

Deaf Raccoon (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Burns Like Hell

Darcy Clay (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – What About It

Cairo Knife Fight (Aotearoa, New Zealand) – No Longer Silent

Weta (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Let It Go

AHoriBuzz (Aotearoa / New Zealand) – Sugar

The Beatniks (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Torn

IVY (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Colours in the Sky

Pearly* (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Not So Sweet

The Audio Visual Drop Kicks (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – The Weight

Marlon Williams (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) – Rere Mai Ngā Rau

Butter Wouldn’t Melt (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Tertiary Blues

Adam Hattaway and the Haunters (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – You Know You Will

Aldous Harding (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) – Riding That Symbol

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173 days until the election.

MONDAY 11TH MAY 2026
11th May 2026 NZ Music Month!!!

Songs Played

PCP Eagles (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Taumarunui Hates the Kids

The Mint Chicks (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Don’t Turn Me on Just to Turn on Me

Scavengers (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Mysterex

The Enemy (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Societies Fools

HOICK (Tauranga) – Chargey Chargey

Tooms (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – TOAD

Carthage (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – when the mill stops turning

Western Haikus (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) Mortician

Eurydice (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Wadestown Fentanyl Crisis

Earth Tongue (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Flashlight

Earth Tongue (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Symmetry Dripper

Earth Tongue (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Ritual

Beastwars (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – The Storm

Organectomy (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Tracheal Hanging

Shepherd’s Reign (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Ala Mai

Hori Holocaust (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – We Are A Racist Country

U-No Juno (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Bread And Wine

The Beths (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Silence Is Golden

Darcy Clay (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) – Jolene

Just Janie (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – A Woman to Love

You, Me, Everybody (Aotearoa / New Zealand) – Busy Without Me

Emily Esplin (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – EAT ME ALIVE

Ryan Fisherman (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Travel

The Clean (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Beatnik

The Chills (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Heavenly Pop Hit

Snapper (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Dry Spot

Sneaky Feelings (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) – Waiting for Touchdown

Darren Pickering Small Worlds (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) – Green Blinking Light

Myele Manzanza (Te Whanganui-a-tara / Wellington) – Universal Language

No extra listening today but please read and share the article below written by David Farrier in order to raise awareness and pressure the Minister of Foreign Affairs to do something about an NZ citizen disappearing in an ICE detention centre.

Everlee Has Disappeared

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180 days until the election.

MONDAY 4TH MAY 2026
4th May 2026 NZ Music Month!!!

Songs Played

Blam Blam Blam (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - There Is No Depression In New Zealand

Bleeders (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - All That Glitters

Terrorways (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - Never Been to Borstal

Mobile Stud Unit (Kirikiriroa / Hamilton) - Tony Tourettes

Toy Love (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Pull Down the Shades

The Datsuns (Kemureti / Cambridge) - Fink for the Man

Dick Move (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - Up The Bus

Unsanitary Napkin (Tāmaki Makaurau) - I Riro Whenua Atu, Me Hoki Whenua Mai

Tides (Rāhui-Pōkeka / Huntly) - Tailwhip

Shotgun Wedding (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Bat Bombs

Alien Weaponri (Waipū) - Hatupatu

Blindfolded and Led to the Woods (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) - A Wolf in a Wall Street Tomb

Pull Down the Sun (Whanganui) - Weta

New Way Home (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - Signals

Darcy Clay (Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland) - Jesus I Was Evil

The Gordons / Bailter Space (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) - Coalminers Song

The 3Ds (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Hey Seuss

Headless Chickens (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Gaskrankinstation

The Verlaines (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Makes No Difference

Straitjacket Fits (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Hail

Jenny Mitchell (Maruawai / Gore) Heart Like a House (feat. Kasey Chambers)

Amelie Spinks (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) - Louis Collins

Delaney Davidson (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) - Heaven Is Falling (feat. Reb Fountain)

Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams (Ōhinehou / Lyttelton) - Arahura

Umar Zakaria (Ōtautahi / Christchurch) - Suite Melayu: Joget

Koizilla (Ōtepoti / Dunedin) - Ornithology

Extra Listening

The Mitchell Twins (Maruawai / Gore) - Find a River

Harmonic Resonators (Tauranga) - Ka Pioioi

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187 days until the election.

TUESDAY 28TH APRIL 2026
27th April 2026

Sorry to all my adoring fans I went away for the long weekend and thus I did not present a show :(((

MONDAY 20TH APRIL 2026
20th April 2026

Songs Played

Amyl and The Sniffers - GFY

Lambrini Girls - Cult of Celebrity

Black Flag - TV Party

Agent Orange - Bloodstains (Darkness Version)

U.K. Subs - Endangered Species

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Seek Help! (Dn) - Apex Predator

U-No Juno (Dn) - Sorry Jack

Crustaceanz (NZ) - Steve

Bear Trap (NZ) - NOT A MATTER OF OPINION

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse Now

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Say When

Dillinger Escape Plan - Abe the Cop

Night Verses - 8 Gates Of Pleasure

Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize - Closer (Nine Inch Noize Version)

Massive Attack and Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers

Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole

Bootsy Collins, Buckethead and Jennifer Batten - Free Bucket

Tinariwen - Sagherat Assani (feat. Sulafa Elyas)

PowPig - Ode to Wiseau

Hella - Republic of Rough and Ready

Altın Gün - Halkalı Şeker

DOMi & JD BECK and Kurt Rosenwinkel - WHOA

Brad Mehldau Trio - Wonderwall

frog power (Dn) - locusts are sleeping in my skull tonight

Extra Listening

Primus - Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers (Live at Woodstock '94)

Blindfolded And Led To The Woods (NZ) - Cafuné

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201 days until the election.

MONDAY 13TH APRIL 2026
13th April 2026

Songs Played

Motörhead - Motörhead

Tailgunner - Guns for Hire

Otoboke Beaver - Hey, Where's the Thank You?

Otoboke Beaver - I Don't Need To Be In Your Strike Zone

Romantic Gorilla - Gorillaman-show

Melvins and Napalm Death - Stealing Horses

dORKWIND (NZ) - Humunculous

Sivle Talk (Dn) - This City Has Let Our Children Down (Live '25)

Crook (NZ) - Shoving

STONEHEDGE AOTEAROA (NZ) - She Who Is Our Rock

The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Dropkick Murphys - The State Of Massachusetts

The Clash - Know Your Rights

Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

Voivod - Panorama

The Aristocrats - Boing!... I'm In The Back

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Cosmic Strut

Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris

King Crimson - Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream

Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Brad Mehldau - Paranoid Android

Sun Ra - Nuclear War

Dope Lemon - Rose Pink Cadillac

Extra Listening

King Crimson - Live in Munich 1982

King Crimson - THRAK (Live)

The Aristocrats - Boing, We'll Do It Live!

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208 days until the election

MONDAY 6TH APRIL 2026
6th April 2026

Songs Played

Slayer - Angel of Death

Metallica - Jump In The Fire

Bad Brains - Let Me Help

Dead Kennedys - Police Truck

Fear - New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones

Agent Orange - Too Young To Die

Harm's Way - Become a Machine

Mindforce - Senseless Act

Speed - ALL MY ANGELS

Bib - The Fool

SLUR (NZ) - Salt The Earth

Pull Down The Sun (NZ) - Of Valleys and Mountains

Spook the Horse (NZ) - Writhing

The Smashing Pumpkins - Geek U.S.A.

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well, Pt. 1

Rush - Finding My Way

Amelie Spinks, Anja Gottberg, and Adrian Bifano (1/3 NZ) - angel from Montgomery

Sierra Ferrell - Silver Dollar

Lillie Mae - Wash Me Clean

Joni Mitchell - California

Ry Cooder - The Bourgeois Blues

Leon Russell - Come On Into My Kitchen (Live)

Prince - Cold Coffee & Cocaine (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)

Taj Mahal - She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride

Miles Calder (NZ) - Bad for Me

Extra Listening

Rush - Finding My Way (Live at the 2026 Juno Awards)

Taj Mahal feat. Ry Cooder Statestboro Blues (Live at the 2014 Americana Music Awards)

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215 days until the election.

MONDAY 30TH MARCH 2026
30th March 2026

Songs Played

The Damned - I Feel Alright

Ramones - Judy Is A Punk

X (USA) - Sex and Dying in High Society

X (AUS) - I Don't Wanna Go Out

Black Flag - Police Story

MDC - John Wayne Was a Nazi

PCP Eagles (NZ) - The Ballad of Stuart Young

Mandate (Dn) - Changes

Dale Kerrigan (Dn) - SHALLOW HEAD

Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Johnny

Melvins - King of Rome

Car Bomb - Tiles Whisper Dreams

Frontierer - Tunnel Jumper (Redux)

Igorrr - Blastbeat Falafel (feat. Trey Spruance)

Tropical Fuck Storm - Irukandji Syndrome

Beck - Inferno

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Stagger Lee

Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce

Captain Beefheard and the Magic Band - Captain's Holiday

Delaney Davidson and Marlon Williams (NZ) - Death Don't Have No Mercy

Sinead O'Connor - All Apologies

Kirin J Callinan - The Whole of the Moon

Deftones - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Frank Zappa - Stairway To Heaven

CCTV (NZ) - Watch

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222 days until the election.

MONDAY 23RD MARCH 2026
23rd March 2026

Songs Played

Capdown - Ska Wars

Operation Ivy - Sound System

Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas

X-Ray Spex - Genetic Engineering

Youth Brigade - What Are You Fighting For

Germs - Communist Eyes

Haywire 617 - BOSTON BOOT BOYS

World of Pleasure - Sweetness of life

Spy - Void of Passion

Iron Lung - Virus

Loa Loa (Dn) - Give Me A Place

Eurydice (NZ) - New Violence

Western Haikus (NZ) - Mortician

No Sector (NZ) - All Balls No Brains

Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk

Battles - Ambulance

Viagra Boys - Pyramid of Health

The Smiths - I Want the One I Can't Have

R.E.M - Finest Worksong

Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down

The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands

Sweet 75 - Fetch

Mad Season - I'm Above

Jane's Addiction - Rock & Roll

Pavlov's Puss (NZ) - Charlie Dealt In Pharmaceuticals

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229 days until the election.

MONDAY 16TH MARCH 2026
16th March 2026

Songs Played

Minor Threat - Minor Threat

Discharge - State Violence/State Control

Dropkick Murphys - Citizen I.C.E (feat. Haywire)

The Chisel - Cry Your Eyes Out

Juicebox - NOT YOURS

Detach - WEAPONIZED INCOMPETENCE

Bin Day (NZ) - Fuck Off

Moider Mother (NZ) - White Devil

Tides (NZ) - This Coal Kills Fascists

Lung (NZ) - Blood Clot

Lambrini Girls - Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels

SOFT PLAY - Slushy (feat. Kate Nash)

Sleaford Mods - Force 10 From Navarone (feat. Florence Shaw)

Bob Vylan - Hunger Games

Model Home (NZ) - Leaky Home Simulator 2031

The Last Dinner Party - Second Best

Fugazi - Smallpox Champion (Albini Session)

AW (NZ) - HATE GUITARS

Kāhu Rōpū (Dn) - Noir

Duster - Reed to Hillsborough

Slowdive - 40 Days

Bam Bam - Villains (Also Wear White)

Mudhoney - Hate the Police

Melvins - Vile

U-Men - Shoot 'em Down

Black Country, New Road - Science Fair

Kim Gordon - Not Today

CORRECTION - I erroneously referred to Kim Gordon as the Bassist from The Pixies when she was actually the bassist of Sonic Youth. I would like to apologise in particular to Kim Gordon and Kim Deal, as well as Kim Shattuck, Kim Coletta and all other bassists named Kim.

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236 days until the election.