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Congratulations to The Warratahs, who will be inducted into the NZ Music Hall of Fame at the APRA Silver Scroll awards on October 29. AudioCulture has several pages devoted to the band, and its original members... www.audioculture.co.nz/profile/the-...
The Warratahs - AudioCulture
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Ōtautahi Christchurch friends, this is cool!
The Art of A Low Hum (Triple Book Release) is on tonight at Space Academy, with some great acts poerforming.

Also, you can check out our 2-part story on the legendary Blink and his Low Hum ventures:
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/a-l...
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...was the committee’s verdict on Hank Ballard, while Little Richard’s ‘Tutti Frutti’ was declared a “coarse and ugly performance, words always difficult to hear and often unintelligible”, with the final insult: “Play Pat Boone version only.” 2/2
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Banned from radio: the Broadcasting memos - Article | AudioCulture
Throughout the history of radio there have been songs which, for one reason or another, have been deemed unsuitable for broadcast. There are such memorable cases as the BBC’s banning of Split Enz’s ‘S...
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Happy naughty Friday? Start your day with Nick Bollinger's great story about songs banned from the radio. (Chris Knox alert in the image!)
"It could be the sound as much as the lyrics that kept records off the airwaves. “Noisy, coarse and crude”... 1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ban...
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It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Article | AudioCulture
An excerpt from Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly, by Craig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025), published with permission. -- In the late 1980s Chris Knox worked out his solo songs at home with h...
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It's release day for Not Given Lightly, Craig Robertson's biography of Chris Knox, and we're thrilled to share an excerpt. "Songwriting was partly a physical process, he told Russell Baillie..." We're also giving away a copy in next week's newsletter...1/2 www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/chr...
Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly - Article | AudioCulture
An excerpt from Chris Knox: Not Given Lightly, by Craig Robertson (Auckland University Press, 2025), published with permission. -- In the late 1980s Chris Knox worked out his solo songs at home with h...
www.audioculture.co.nz
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I had a fun time digging out some of the more ridiculous reasons for certain local songs/videos being banned over the years. Though the vid for Timberjacks's Come to the Sabbat' did get one airing on TV in the 70s and I doubt they'd show it now...
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They must have listened quite closely to discern the lines!
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Another Bollinger banger! It's going to take a minute to get used to the idea of Prince Tui Teka and Beryl Te Wiata being deemed too raunchy for radio, but they were different times, I guess.
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Cool! I think we're publishing an excerpt too.
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David Herkt says, "Here's a deep-dive into the past of Auckland City....Mojo's nightclub on Queen Street was one of NZ's great transvestite shows in the early 1970s. The links below the story are also revealing, especially the youtube one with interviews."
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Mojo
From the beginning of the 1970s, at 348 Queen Street in Auckland, there was an unmissable sign. It read “Mojo’s Nitespot”. It would eventually become the frontage of New Zealand’s first, largest, and ...
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David Herkt says, "Here's a deep-dive into the past of Auckland City....Mojo's nightclub on Queen Street was one of NZ's great transvestite shows in the early 1970s. The links below the story are also revealing, especially the youtube one with interviews."
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/moj...
Mojo
From the beginning of the 1970s, at 348 Queen Street in Auckland, there was an unmissable sign. It read “Mojo’s Nitespot”. It would eventually become the frontage of New Zealand’s first, largest, and ...
www.audioculture.co.nz
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In our latest newsletter: the Heavy Metal Aotearoa Timeline, win Suzanne Lynch's new memoir, say happy birthday to Shona Laing, and indulge in some lost NZ earworms from the 1980s. Plus - who won tickets to the Andrew Fagan and Tom Scott shows? mailchi.mp/4ecdc087f963...
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In our latest newsletter: the Heavy Metal Aotearoa Timeline, win Suzanne Lynch's new memoir, say happy birthday to Shona Laing, and indulge in some lost NZ earworms from the 1980s. Plus - who won tickets to the Andrew Fagan and Tom Scott shows? mailchi.mp/4ecdc087f963...