Off The Record

The Veils' new album ...And Out Of The Void Came Love is out now, lead singer Finn Andrews popped in to tell us about making it in New Zealand (a first for the band) seeing his dad for the first time in four years and the character that lurks beneath..  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary release of Shihad's Pacifier album, Jon Toogood and Karl Kippenberger sat down to take us back to those crazy days in the USA, and getting Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots to do backing vocals on one of their songs.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Synthony In The Domain is coming to Auckland, Tiki Taane called in to The Big Show to explain what's going down on April 1, and reminisce about the good ol' days in Wellington with Mike Minogue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When SJD released his ninth album, he called us up to discuss Sweetheart, his new life in Dunedin and having an enviable list of contacts in his phone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LAB have released a new song just in time for the summer holidays, their lead singer Joel called up to introduce Take It Away and reveal the controversial method they used that'll have guitar purists fuming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blindspott's new tune A Perfect Storm is out now, their lead singer Damien came in to have a chat about putting into song those emotional things you want to say to family members but you're often too shy to say to their face.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angie caught up with Andy Cato (all 6 foot 8 of him) from Groove Armada during their Auckland gig!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New band Silcrow gave us a call to introduce their new song, go over their influences and tease the upcoming tour dates to celebrate the release of Ethereal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tadpole are back! Kind of.. the band aren't back together but there's new music.. kind of - leftover from previous album sessions is a new collection of songs, available now only on CD. Chris from the band gave us a call to explain the new tunes and reminisce about good times they had in the early 2000s.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From hardcore to The Cure and Stone Roses, we delved into the mind of Miinds' lead singer Leon after they released their new tune Loveless.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Coridian have just released State Of Mind, we had a chat about it with their drummer Chris - and other things like how their weekly band practices differ from what they get up to on Christmas day (spoiler: not much) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Irish rockers Fontaines D.C. are coming in January, Deego from the band gave us a call from the road on their current world tour to introduce their tunes, nicknames and where they'd like to move to (they haven't been to NZ yet so it wasn't here) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fazerdaze is back. After a five year hiatus there's a new EP and gigs coming up this weekend, hot off a tour of Thailand and Indonesia. She called us with an update on the tunes and the new city she's living in now.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Monday night at Spark Arena in Auckland, Taylor Johnston joined thousands of other fans watching The Killers play live. The difference was, Taylor held up a sign. Brandon Flowers saw the sign and invited Taylor on stage to play the drums on their song For Reasons Unknown.. he nailed it. We asked him what it was like to play with The Killers!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Racing's sophomore album Must Be The Moon is out now. Lead singer Ed gave us a call on 0800hauraki with an update on how the tour's going, including where the best gig has been so far. Was it a South Island show? Plus they're about to achieve a long ago set goal..  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Renee Millner has seen a lot of the world before setting in New Plymouth. She called up with tales from elsewhere on the globe and introduced her new song So Much from the recent Fly Me Back EP.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Could Jason Hoyte be the newest member of Kora? He auditioned to Fran from the band on The Big Show, by joining in on their new song Gone on The Big Show.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Miriam Clancy left New Zealand eight years ago and moved to New York, she called up to tell us about life in the big apple, her new song Kamakazi Angel, what she misses about NZ and her connections to Stranger Things and Taylor Swift.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dictaphone Blues have released a new song called Soothe The Muse, their front man Ed called up to introduce it and discuss the recent reunion of his old band Degrees K in Christchurch. Was that it or will they reunite again?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To celebrate The D4's 21st anniversary of their critically acclaimed debut record 6TWENTY, Jimmy Christmas called in for a chat about getting the band back together and hitting the road in 2023.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christchurch rockers Pieces Of Molly have released their debut self title album, lead singer Ewen Glasgow gave us a call to explain the journeys - one spanning ten years to get the band to this point, the other: the musical journey we'll go on when we listen.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hanger 18 have toured with Silverchair and Everclear, we got the backstage stories from their drummer Paul plus he introduced their new song Say It To Me.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Days before flying into New Zealand for shows in Auckland and Wellington, The Sisters Of Mercy's lead guitarist Ben Christo called up to talk us through their last four decades, his love of 80s rock and what their live sets entail these days See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tablefox guitarist Matt Carson called up to tell us his favourite song of the last 40 they've released, and tell us about their new drummer and how he's changing the sound of the band.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mild Orange formed in Dunedin but these days live in London. They've taking the long way home - via touring through Europe, America, Canada and Australia to come home for two weeks; play a bunch of shows around New Zealand over Labour Weekend then fly back to the UK. Merts from the band called up to tells us some tales from the road.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.