This week Sunday-Saturday on Paekakariki’s favourite radio station in the whole wide world 88.2FM, streaming at paekakariki.org.nz, things break into a whole lot of new flavours, formats and styles.

5pm             Parental Misguidance

Join Ed and Luca, father and son, for an hour of pop, punk and polka. Helping to bridge the generation gap through song – Rihanna to the Ramones.

6pm             Te Pae/ The Perch

This week live in the studio The Dovetails, neighbour of the week Suzy Richardson, a squawk from the Surf Club, Fishing report with Pete, Movie Review with Gabe, and issue of the week is our Highway intersection with interviews with the local Fire Station and, from reporter Gareth with a swag of your questions in hand, NZTA.

8pm             Viva la French Paekakariki

Shona Jaunas is joined by guests to play an eclectic mix of old and new music from all over the world with an emphasis on French culture and ancient music.

9pm             The Weather Girls

DJ Fred and DJ Lavender focus on female artists (although not exclusively), interspersed with weather related topics.

10pm The Paekakariki Interesting Musical Appreciation Society

A special emergency community meeting has resulted in the gathering of an eclectic show of songs based on the theme of ‘radio’.

Streaming worldwide on the net at paekakariki.org.nz and in Paekakariki on your radios 88.2FM, week two of our pilot sees us again live on Sunday, and repeating the show Monday to Saturday, with a new raft of monthly Paekakariki specialist shows and our weekly community show Te Pae.

5pm     Collective Korero
Collecting the korero in Paekakariki, with host Kaia Hawkins. Your neighbours’ lives and record collections.

6-8pm      Te Pae (The Perch)
Your weekly news, views, performances and interviews of Paekakariki with host Mark Amery and producer Melanie Phipps.
This week includes (in order) a musical performance by Hurricane Shayn Wills, our Neighbour of the Week interview with our farmer John Perkins, all new feature Clinton’s sports round up, community notices at 7pm, our squawk of our week from a local organisation Paekakariki School with principal John Masson, and a spoken word performance by Therese Lloyd.
Our weekly panel discussion this week is on the theme of The Birds. Peter Handford and Daniel Bar-Even of Groundtruth and wildlife biologist Murray Williams will talk about the bird audio link from Kapiti Island; birds and other wildlife of Paekakariki: what we’ve got and the issues for local wildlife – including where the cats fit in. Email in your questions and they will have a go at answering them: [email protected]

8pm    The Wildwood Hour
Travels through the vast landscape of country and folk music, with Helen Keivom.

9pm     Anything Could Happen
A sampling of indie rock / pop from the late ‘70s to the present, with a hearty dose of New Zealand content, with Jim Ebenhoh

10pm  Beats and Bangers
Servin up some fresh beats and sizzling bangers. Keepin it oldschool, keepin it greasy, no mash, no cheesey!!! With Jack Cromie.

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Our first broadcast (which you can hear streaming here on the internet or on the radio nightly 5-11pm till Saturday) was something rather special, if you can forgive our frequent dodgy mike levels, ums and ahs – which we hope we made up for with so much heart. Himiona Grace kicked things off with a beautiful mihi and a stonking broad array of contemporary Aotearoa sounds. We had visits from local kaumatua Karl Farrell and were blessed to have as first interview guest on our community radio show Te Pae (6-8) Carol Reihana.

There were a few wet eyes, mine included, when over 25 local tamariki sang local waiata to welcome the show as part of our Kapa Haka roopu. For future reference if your band has more than 25 players, we can’t fit you. The Te Pae show had a bit of an accidental theme going, Paekakariki’s physical boundaries. Whilst Carol recalled Ngati Haumia’s original shark toothed settlement down in the crook of Wainui Stream where the Holiday Park is now, Joan Hilder in her tennis club report recalled the first house she grew up in in the village in the 1960s – the houses where now the Ames Street reserve is. We followed with Janet Holborrow and Paul Hughes discussing extensions to Paekakariki now – the future use of the land at the end of Tilley Road, and the Grow Paekakariki’s drive to secure Perkins farmland for our community before it passes to the powers that be bringing us Transmission Gully. We’re blessed to have producer Melanie Phipps onboard.

Here’s poet Helen Heath rounding things off with a beautiful selection of her work.

After 8pm, Paul Howard told us via Lou Donaldson that things were going to get funky, on his show Garage Sale Funk, and they. sure. were. Special kudos for having into the studio our very own band Skapiti and a joy to hear a live recording of their tune ‘Paekakariki After Midnight’. Anna Marie O’Brien followed taking us on a beautiful journey through modern classical music, of great breadth – from the astonishing choral sounds of Dudley Benson’s ‘Tui’ to Sibelius. A beautiful way to end a beautiful Sunday night.

We’d love your ideas and views – and even better would love one of you out there to do a blog report on next week’s shows, like this one but… from your very own particular Paekakariki point of view! Let us know

Mark