Sam Buchanan This month’ll be a New Wavey kinda show with Italy’s Queen of rock Gianna Nannini, Japan’s Stance Punks, London’s old part New Wave/part New Romantic duo Intaferon, US basketball player Jim Carrol, land speed record holders Husker Du, Dunedin’s Toy Love, fake Japan/Korean movie band Paran Maum (featuring Shiori Sekine from Baseball Bear), US skasters … Read more
Next week (Saturday) Reptile Radio will have an almost all Caribbean show, a departure from the Reptile norm, with not much from the 80’s New Wave stable. Instead, we got Toots and the Maytals, Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua BWI, Fonclaire, Peter Tosh, Lord Melody, something from 1955 Cuba, a bit of British two-tone … Read more
Reptile Radio plays a wide range of music of appeal to nostagia freaks, retro hipsters and ageing punks. Everything from the early 1950s to the present day gets a look-in, but it tends to be heavy on the golden age of music from late 70s and 80s, plus more recent material from local bands. There’s … Read more