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Through driving rain and howling winds, I came to bring you the fickle flames of music this evening. Of course I was late and forgot the reading and bungled some technicals. Aren't I your favourite little cringefail radio host, or am I just a little hypothermic? Who knows? probably you... either way, a fine selection I presented despite the bitter weather.

No Guest or Reading this week, though the tales of Beowulf's mighty deeds await...

Playlist
Carb on Carb (NZ) - Be My Mirror
Carb on Carb (NZ) - People I Don't Like
Carb on Carb (NZ) - Take Your place In The World
RIOT GULL (Dn) - ROUTINE FOR CHAMPS
RIOT GULL (Dn) - BUS CRUSH
Departure Party (NZ) - Evil is Mundane
Scream By Tulips (NZ) - Stripped
Scream By Tulips (NZ) - Over and Out
G.L.O.S.S. - Masculine Artifice
G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp
G.L.O.S.S. - Lined Lips & Spiked Bats
Malvina Reynolds - It Isn't Nice
Malvina Reynolds - The Albatross
Chumbawumba - The Collier's March
Chumbawumba - Hanging on the Old Wire
Diesel Jenny (NZ) - mol out the window
Heavy Blarney (NZ) - The Kererū
Birdlings Flat (NZ) - Spirit Bear
Birdlings Flat (NZ) - Stranded
Porter Robinson ft. Breanne Duren & Sean Cashey - Years of War
Porter Robinson ft. Urban Cone - Lionhearted
Teenage Joans - My Hearts Dead
Teenage Joans - Honey (And Other Sweet Things)
Vagine Dry (Dn) - My Voice, My Choice
Vagina Dry (Dn) - PRIVILAGED MAN
FLAVOR FOLEY - Human

Big ups for the first episode of 2026!! Welcoming listeners new and old, vinyl hit the decks for the first time in our show's history! Wide ranging, just as Odysseus, music spanned as widely between the 1812 overture and Joy Crookes. We also began an extended reading: Beowulf! The solution to our classics woes stands in the tales from those the Romans deemed barbarians.

Reading: Beowulf 1-162 in Alexander, M. 2003. Beowulf: A Verse Translation. Penguin Classics.

Guests: Eventually.

Playlist:
SEEK HELP! (Dn) - Apex Predator
The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The 1812 Overture
The Naked and Famous (NZ) - The Runners
The Naked and Famous (NZ) - Young Blood
Ninajirachi - All I Am
Ninajirachi - iPod Touch
Ninajirachi - Delete
Ani Saafa (Dn) - Alkaline
Ani Saafa (Dn) - GILLIE SUIT
Ani Saafa (Dn) - Gripes
Joy Crookes - Perfect Crime
Joy Crookes - I Know You'd Kill
The Beths (NZ) - Change in the Weather
The Beths (NZ) - Head in the Clouds
Ringlets (NZ) - Street Massage
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - David Seymour, Lord of Regression
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - Catastrophe
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - TERF WAR 2025
Anri - Mahogany Town
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Good Night

Tonight, we IMPROVISE!!!!1!! Personal circumstances have left me unable to fully prepare a playlist for this week, but instead, I came up with tracks on the fly for you all. A chaotic episode was had. I also questioned whether to keep doing classics readings again...

Further, tonight's show is our last for the year :(. I look forward to bringing more tunes and readings in the New Year. Ka kite anō au i a koutou, Iō Saturnalia, & Happy Holidays.

Playlist
Childish Gambino - Redbone
The Bats (NZ) - The Fingers of Dawn
Minisnap (NZ) - Human Error
Minisnap (NZ) - Wistler
Die! Die! Die! (NZ) - Losing Sight, Keep On Kicking
beet-wix (Dn) - Come As You Are (Nirvana cover)
beet-wix (Dn) - magic romance
smiling broadly - wil the media depict us as lovers? (from Divine Hammer)|
smiling broadly - 120% get it together
Vulfpeck - Funky Duck
Vulfpeck - 1612
Vulfpeck - Wait for the Moment
The Beths (NZ) - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Beths (NZ) - The Great No One
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Red Flags
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Panic Attack
Jamie Paige - Cadmium Colours
Jamie Paige with OK Glass - BIRDBRAIN 
Yon Loader (NZ) - The Doubt
Yon Loader (NZ) - Tied Up In
The Longest Johns - Christmas at Sea

Tonight's episode was far better than last week :). We had a return to our good old fashioned classic readings, with an excerpt from Ovid's Metamorphoses, along with a variety of tracks, including some form DISPLEASURE's new album.

Classics Reading: Ovid. Metamorphoses 1.1-150. trans. D. Raeburn. 2004. Penguin Classics: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Auckland: Penguin Books.

Guests: Not tonight

Playlist
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - TERF WAR 2025
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - REAL MEN DON'T WIPE
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - BEEFCHUMP
DAHTM (NZ) - Te Ārai I Te Pō
DAHTM (NZ) - Deep In The Dank
Slush - Bleed
Slush - Middle Name
Slush - Salty
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - This Ends Today
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Conversations
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Johnny
THWACK! - Margret Thatcher Blood Snatcher
KOTAC (Dn) - Death Destroyer Twenty-Five Hundred
Good Luck - Public Radio
PARADOX PRINCESS (Dn) - NO VULTURES
Rei (NZ) - Hakka Through the Pain
Good Luck - All Good Peopl
Good Luck - No T-Shirts
availax & Artifyer (NZ) - Cabbit Music
DECO*27 - Monitoring ft. Hatsune Miku
DECO*27 - Crime & Punishment (Reloaded) ft. Hatsune Miku
Doublehappys (Dn) - Moss Monster
Doublehappys (Dn) - Needles and Plastic

Marred by fatigue and an overheating studio, we had an underlength episode today. :( 

Reading: William Shakespeare The Ousel Cock so Black of Hue and Spring and Winter in Poems About Birds, editor H. J. Massingham. 2022. London: MacMillan

Playlist
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Red Flags
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Mall Madness
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Good Night
FEM&M - Beep Beep Bag
DARTZ (NZ) - Stael From the Supermarket
Steriogram (NZ) - Walkie Talkie Man
Seriogram (NZ) - Go
astrid - FML
Sivle Talk (Dn) - The City Has Let Our Children Down
Sure Boy (NZ) - Better
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Hardware Store
"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
100 gecs - sympathy 4 the grinch
100 gecs - hand crushed by a mallet
100 gecs - money machine
Keanu Raves (NZ) - The Agenda
T54 (NZ) - Kill Red

This week is Trangender Awareness Week. It's also the week that the government decided that they would ban puberty blockers for transgender children after delaying new guidelines for over a year. The host's blood boils. But as such, we had a special episode this week feturing all transgender and non-binary artists.

Classics Reading: No classics reading this week though there was some discussion of Ovid's works involving trans people.

Modern Reading: https://wpath.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/06.18.2025-USPATH-WPATH-Press-Statement.pdf

Guests: No guest this week.

Playlist
Van Staden & Böhn (NZ) - No. 1 Girl Raver
PARADOX PRINCESS (Dn) - Queen of the Void
PARADOX PRINCESS (Dn) - LET THEM EAT BRICKS
Baby Zinov  ft. Bioma (NZ) - French Navy
Baby Zinov ft. Robin Slate (NZ) - The World Can't Stop Me (Guavaline's Theme)
Auto Angel (NZ) - What else but love?
bitch whistle (NZ) - banshee/they
bitch whistle (NZ) - breeding worth
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - TERF War
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - Speak up for women, you don't speak for me
G.L.O.S.S. - Give Violence a Chance
G.L.O.S.S. - Fight
G.L.O.S.S. - Trans Day of Revenge
Ewy - Love the you required
Ewy - somewhere to fall
Backxwash ft. Chloe Hotline - DISSOCIATION
Blackxwash - Black Lazarus
Ah-Mer-Ah-Su - No One
Ah-Mer-Ah-Su - Fantasy
Golden Awesome (NZ) - Autumn
Jackie Shane - In My Tennement
Jackie Shane - Any Other Way
Amamelia (NZ) - Summerlong
Brown Boy Magik (NZ) - Trust Me Darling

It's my birthday!!!!! I'm a little birthday enby!!!! *ahe ahem* An execellent show was had today, discussing my travels by train to Ōamaru and the Indian goth scene. We had a guest on today - My lovely partner, Violet - who left early due to the vicissitudes of sleep deprevation.

Note: I would like to apologise for my absence week before last. I was unwell.

Recommended Reading:
Indian Goth Scene Article: https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-creators/inside-the-feminist-anti-caste-queer-heart-of-indias-goth-movement

Classics Reading: Theocritus Idylls 11 trans. in Anthology of Classical Myth, edited by S. M. Trzaskoma, R. S. Smith, and S. Brunet. Second Edition. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company.

Guests: Violet, my beloved partner <3 !!

Playlist

Preceeding:
Crystal Chen (NZ) - Stop.
Mim Jensen (NZ) - Sidekick

Show Playlist:
Bunchy's Big Score (Dn) - Scrapbook
Bunchy's Big Score (Dn) - Drone Baby on the Water
Bunchy's Big Score (Dn) - Little Giant Stepping into the Big World
U-No Juno (Dn) - Velvet
U-No Juno (Dn) - All, Everything
Willow Scarlett - Saaya
Willow Scarlett - Abondoned Graveyard
THE NINTH HEAVEN - Purple Sequins in the Mist
THE NINTH HEAVEN - Mermaids of Hyperborea
Scribe (NZ) - Stand Up
Supergroove (NZ) - Scorpio Girls
Supergroove (NZ) - Can't Get Enough
Supergroove (NZ) - You Gotta Know
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Dale Kerrigan (Dn) - TAILOR BIRD
Novo Amor & Yvette Young -monty (＾ᴥ＾)
covet - parachute
REOL - drop pop candy

Racing in to make it this morning, and having prepared a cracking playlist, I arrived with the realisation that despite my rushing, I was short of the classical texts from which we draw readings D: But the show goes on, and other it went fine :)

Note: There will be no show on 8/11/2025, as we will be away for the Aotearoa Alternative Awards.

Classics Reading: I forgor 💀 D:

Guests: nope

Playlist
Nat King Cole - Orange Coloured Sky
Yon Loader (NZ) - Another Year
Yon Loader (NZ) - The Doubt
Out of Luck (NZ) - THIS IS NOT THE END
Out of Luck (NZ) - I COULD SAY
U-No Juno (Dn) - Sick of Home
U-No Juno (Dn) - Sorry Jack
Yorushika - Parade
Yorushika - Say It
Meatloaf ft. Cher - Real Dead Ringer for Love
Steampunk Fish (NZ) - Sunday Cognisence
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Good Night
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - Splash the Fash
Cootie Cuties (NZ) - R U Gay
Kōpūtia People's Party (Dn) - Close to Divine
Zutomayo - Hunch Gray
Jamie Paige - Dyad
Only You (NZ) - Circles
Only You (NZ) - Worth It
Koizilla (Dn) - ...andonandon...
Ewy - somewhere to fall
Ewy - ain't fair

A late arrival to the studio this evening percipitated a bit of chaos this evening, but we prevail :D. A lot of punk and its adjacent genre's this evening, especially a good showing from some riot grrrl acts. Even this weeks reading (loosely) ties in with the rage of Medea at her betrayal at the hands of Jason.

Classics Reading: Ovid Heroides 12, trans. H. C. Cannon. Ovid's Heroides. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.

Guests: not yet...

Playlist
Bub (NZ) - Another Girl
Bub (NZ) - New Amsterdam
Vagina Dry (Dn) - White Femenist
Vagina Dry (Dn) - Privelaged Man
JER - Say Gay or Say Goodnight
JER - The Way You Tune It Out
Good Luck - Innumerable Sea
Good Luck - Make a Road
Meet Me @ The Altar - Say it to my face
Meet Me @ The Altar - Garden
Porter Robinson - dullscythe
By Tomorrow (NZ) - A Sea of Shape and Form
By Tomorrow (NZ) - No One Heard A Thing
Koizilla (Dn) - Ornithology
Sure Boy (NZ) - Her
Ringlets (NZ) - This Year's Hottest Movie
X-Ray Spex - Art-I-Fiscial
X-Ray Spex - Party
Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
The Eastern (NZ) - The Angle
The Eastern (NZ) - The Stepping Razor

An absolute Dunners Stunner!! The beautiful weather today, mixed with not having to go to work on the same day as my radio show has me in high spirits! We had a free flowing show, with a bit of metal and a whole lot of classics reading to make up for the recent sparsity.

Classics Reading: Homer. Odyssey Book 12. trans. R. Eagle. 1996. Homer:The Odyssey. Auckland:Penguin Books.

Guests: Nah :/

Playlist
Jamie Page (ft. Hatsune Miku) - Radiant Revival
The Beths (NZ) - Dying to Believe
The Beths (NZ) - Mars the God of War
Jamie Paige - Cadmium Colours
Erase Everything (NZ) - Keajra
Talking Furniture (Dn) - Windmill
Alien Weaponry (NZ) - Kai Tangata
Alien Weaponry (NZ) - Rū Ana Te Whenua
The Hu - The Trooper (Cover of Iron Maiden in Mongolian)
The Hu - Yuve Yuve Yu
Debt Club (NZ) - Taste for Stout
Sungazer - Whiskey and Mes
Vylet Pony - Antonymph
Sentient Mud (NZ, Chch) - Safe St
KISSER (NZ, Chch) - Constant Reminder
smiling broadly - close

Shining light and beating drums. A most excellent show, in which I expound upon my love for all forms of glorious percussion. Alongside it, I take a request from my partner, and in resolving last weeks concerns regarding classics readings, I give you all two readings rather than one, with one from a modern(ish) source.

Classics Reading: Catullus. Fragment 27. trans. P. Green. 2005. The Poems of Catullus:A Bilingual Edition. Berkley: University of California Press
(Shout out to Associat Professor Daniel Osland for the recommendation :D)

Modern Reading: Clarke, J.D. 1972, Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Guests: Nope :(

Playlist
The Beths (NZ) - Straight Line Was A Lie
Look Blue Go Purple (Dn) - As Does the Sun
Auto Angel (NZ) - What Else But Love
Auto Angel (NZ) - Halloween
Amamelia (NZ) - The Floating Opera
Good Luck - Timelapse
Good Luck - Into the Void
FEX - Subways of Your Mind
Pearly* (Dn) - Alice isn't Dead
Alien Weaponry - Tama-Nui-Te-Rā
Amamelia (NZ) - Lemon Magnolia
Chappell Roan - Feminiomenon
Anri - I CAN'T STOP THE LONELINESS
Anri - 悲しみは窓の向こう (Kanashimi wa Mado no Muke)
Anri - ブルー・ムーン (Blue Moon)
Star Fucking Hipsters - 2 Cups of Tea
Star Fucking Hipsters - 3000 Miles Away
The Verlaines (Dn) - Bird Dog
The Verlaines (Dn) - This Train
The Beatniks (Dn) - What's Wrong
Ringlets (NZ) - I Was On That Roof Once
THWACK! - Margret Thatcher Blood Snatcher

After a long day at work, the show must still go on! However, this weeks presentation was plagued by our daring host being a combination of totally nackered and throughly unprepared!
Arriving late, I played some tracks from a couple of Aotearoa hyperpop artists recommended to me by our lovely programme manager. This weeks playlist was very, very improvised.

Classics Reading: Homer Iliad 1.1-~40. trans. S. Lombardo. 1997. Iliad: Homer. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company Ltd.

Important matter regarding the weekly classics reading: While classical texts and myth can be very fun, it also comes with a major issue: Much of the material can be grim and sensitive for modern audiences, as many characters in classical works openly engage in war, enslavement, rape, and other such acts. Simultaneously however, we are removed from that context by between 1500 and 2500 years. As such, these works can be enjoyed as both an eye into a now long gone world, and as a way of undertanding the results of their influence. While this is great in an educational context, and the works are often enjoyable as recreational reading, I feel grim-er works, despite being notable, popular, and influential, may be too much of a downer for my little Saturday evening variety radio show. I am interested in receiving feedback regarding this. If you wish to, please leave a comment on the mixcloud page for this week's show, or leave a letter for me at the R1 office with my name and show on it. Should I continue with content warnings? Scrap the segment altogether? Broaden scope to literature in general? Stick to the earlier regimen of filtered material, and limit the amount of texts I can use? Or perhaps go full send into spreading the entire Iliad across 24 episodes (1 book/episode), and giving you the full story? You decide

Guests: No D:

Playlist
Preceeding the show: Slipknot - Wait and Bleed; King Hit (NZ) - Asterix

Sometime Winner (Dn) - Dancing here alone
saoirse dream - initialise
Synthetic Children and Impress (NZ) - dreams come thru (Auto Angel Dreams Remix)
Von Staden & Böhm (NZ) - Number One Girl Raver
Animanaguchi - Meow
Animanaguchi - Prom Night ft. Bianca Raquel (2k14 Radio Mix)
Twinkle Park - Endless SUmmer Malaise
Ex Lyd - Epoch
Pearly* (Dn) - Hit the ground running
Increadible Yacht Control (NZ) - Diagnose Me
The Beths (NZ) - Lying in the Sun
Victor Billot - Deep Vein
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - COWARDS
Stan Rogers - White Collar Holler (cover of Nigel Russell)
Of Monsters and Men - King and the Lionheart
Delaney Davidson (NZ) - Around the World
John Casino (Dn) - SH-1
Bebe Martin (NZ) - Sundog
The Clean (Dn) - Anything Could Happen
32ki - Mesmeriser
X-Ray Spex - Identity

I may have had a little bit of a rant in this one. Oop.
I was feeling in the mood for a bit of hyperpop when I prepped the playlist, and I feel it went pretty hard.
[Correction]: During my little screed, I noted that I took issue with cuts that had recently been put through at the time within the OUSA. It has now come to my attention, thanks to the letter I sent to Critic, that I misconstrued what I had been told regarding that specifically. For more details see the letters in Critic Te Ārohi, Issue 23.

Classics Reading: Ovid. Metamorphoses 8.152-235. trans. D. Raeburn. 2004. Penguin Classics: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Auckland: Penguin Books.

Guest: No guests :(

Playlist
The Beths (NZ) - Knees Deep
aridni orca (NZ) - Will o' the Wisps
aridni orca (NZ) - St. Mikhael and the Dragon
aridni orca (NZ) - Featherpluck
A. G. Cook - Soulbreaker
SOPHIE - Immaterial
A. G. Cook - Lucifer
SOPHIE - It's okay to cry
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - Big Freedom
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - Do they owe us a living?
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - COWARDS
100 gecs - hand crushed by a mallet
100 gecs - money machine
Pearly* (Dn) - I wanna be you
Carb on carb (NZ) - Overcommunicate
Sometime Winner (Dn) - Flowers for everything
The Eastern (NZ) - Misty and Jimmy (The version from their self-titled album)
Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with god
Mother Falcon - Dirty Summer
saoirse dream - montage

Goodness was there a lot of international geopolitics the week gone! Musical allusions were made to some of the events of the week, and I ran out of prepared songs, and had to scramble to find more, making some picks from the R1 music library to explore some unfamiliar melodies!

Classics Reading: Homeric Hymns 7 (To Dionysus) & 9 (To Artemis) trans. A. Lang. 2016, in Anthology of Classical Myth, edited by S. M. Trzaskoma, R. S. Smith, and S. Brunet. Second Edition. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company.

Guest: Still no guest :(

Preceeding the show: TOCKA (NZ) - Slaby slaby slaby

Playlist
Supergroove (NZ) - Scorpio girls
DISPLEASURE (NZ) -COWARDS
The Trammps - Disco Inferno
Chumbawumba - Nazi (Live)
Sam Charlesworth (Dn) - Are you okay?
The Beths (NZ) - Roundabout
The Eastern (NZ) - Celtic Jack and Temuka Tom
The Eastern (NZ) - The James Girl
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - TERF War
DISPLEASURE (NZ) - YOUR GOD IS A BIGOT
Split Enz (NZ) - History never repeats
The Mountain Goats - The Legend of Chavo Guerrero
The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton
saoirse dream - Initialise
Ewy - POSH POSH BOYS
Ezra Furman - Caroline Jones
Playlunch - No hat not play
The Beths (NZ) - Watching the credits
Die die die! (NZ) - Everyone's got something to hide except me and my Mike
Teenage Joans - My Heart's Dead
Anamanaguchi - Hopes and Dreams (Cover of Toby Fox)
Sometime Winner (Dn) - Water Taxi
The Communist Rainbow Relationship (NZ) - It's only tragic
Carb on carb (NZ) - Here comes the best bit
smiling broadly - impish thing

The show begins!
Our inaugral show, intitially plagued by a technical difficulty, came through! We had a pretty mixed playlist with no particular theme other than to thoroughly establish the ✨vibe✨. 

Classics Reading: Sappho. Fragment 1. trans. D. J. Rayor, A. P. M. H. Lardinois. 2014. Sappho: A new translation of the complete works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Guest: No guest on this one folks :(

Playlist
Pearly* (Dn) - Superglue
The Beths (NZ) - Straight Line Was A Lie
Qualms (NZ) - LOVELESS
The Beths (NZ) - No Joy
Unsanitary Napkin (NZ) - Peter Theil (Literal Fucking Vampire)
Teenage Joans - Honey (and other sweet things)
Sometime Winner (Dn) - Morning Goes
The Bats (NZ) - Alight from the River
Wolfe Tones - Come out ye Black & Tans
Chumbawumba - El Fusilado
Playlunch - Real Estate Apps
Playlunch - Keith
Open Souls - Standing in the Rains
The Eastern (NZ) - The Stepping Razor
Sure Boy (NZ) - Post Party Pepsi
Carb on Carb (NZ) - It's been a rough year
Set It Off - Why do I (ft. Hatsune Miku)
wowaka - Rolling Girl
JamieP w/ OK Glass - Birdbrain
The Beths (NZ) - Future Me Hates Me (Live)
Porter Robinson - Musician