Radio Active 89FM NZ Music Show Playlist
11 November, 2003

Had the lovely Ms. Hill back in the co-host's seat this week (after her winter migration to the warmer climes of 'Nam), which meant we could return to our old habits of flubbed voice-breaks, asking too-hard questions for the giveaways, and generally sounding a bit chaotic. All good fun.

Here's one of the questions (asked after the Tokey Tones 'The Beach' had just played). "OK, the name of that song by the Tokey Tones shares the same name as an excellent Alex Garland novel that was later turned into a not-so-good movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio - what was the name of that song, book and film?" "Titanic!" was the first, and as it turned out, only call we got on that one. Luckily, someone did know the answer to the next question: "What popular early evening NZ TV soap does one of the Tokey Tones act in?" Not too many options there, you'd have thought. But the pause from the question being asked to the phone going was disconcertingly long. After the listening public had obviously spent some times discounting any of the other popular NZ soaps that get played in the early evening, we eventually got a (correct!) call.

Anyway, we'd turned up at 9pm having been told there was a live-to-air until about 9:30pm - I'd been rung and asked if it was ok that the live-to-air impinged on our show - 'No worries,' I said. Julie got the same call, but came out of it under the impression that we were expected to handle the desk during the performance (by new local act Cue the Sun, by the way). This suitably freaked us both out, with my desk-handling skills still at the 'adequate' stage, and Ju's being (only very slightly) worse than that. A fully-fledged live mixing job was going to see us cruelly exposed as the feckless technical hacks we actually are. Fortunately everything was set to go -- all we had to do was listen to the music which was all being fed through one channel on the main desk from Marmalade Studios downstairs. Just had to click 'em off after their 'thanks, good night', and we were in action. Phew.

* LIVE TO AIR - Cue the Sun

Pretty good these guys, in a very Jakob way. Keep an ear out if that's your sort of thing. Because of this, and the usual un-chart-ed show eating up another quarter of an hour of the show, the playlist was pretty short tonight...

* Pitch Black - Speech
* Phoenix Foundation - Let me die a woman
* HDU - Lull
* Shaynie & Fifie - Name of the Game
* JPSE - Up In The Sky
* Tokey Tones - The Beach
* Kold Kut - Repect 2 Welli
* Stylus77 - Goodbye
* Bilge Festival - Buried [your head]
* Fur Patrol - Beautiful
* The Chills - Look for the good in others and they'll find the good in you
* Baitercell - Prototype
* Phelps & Munro - Comeuppance
* Plasticene - My Imagined Nursery
* Dark Tower - Sons of the South
* Poultice - Slap Mit Fish
* Wing - You'll Never Walk Alone
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