Mel Parsons Day on East FM, Saturday from midday
It’s Mel Parsons Day tomorrow as we talk with her about new album Sabotage and look forward to the start of her upcoming regional NZ tour in Howick, on tomorrow’s She’ll Be Right on Saturdays Show with PJ Taylor, midday to 4pm (NZ time, August 3) on East FM.
We’ll also pay tribute to the late-great Martin Phillipps, who passed last Sunday, by playing music by The Chills.
There’s also a new song – Caffeine High – by Auckland indie pop-rock band Marmalade to spin.
And we’ll also play tracks by artists Floral Clocks, Shindig, and Hoop, the line-up for the next Ministry of Folk concert on August 10 in Mt Eden. Tickets at www.undertheradar.co.nz...
Mel Parsons, being one of NZ’s leading singer-songwriters of this era, is a favourite artist of the She’ll Be Right Show, and it’s with great pleasure that we chat with her at 12.30pm in the lead-up to the tour-opening concert at East Auckland’s beloved Uxbridge Arts and Culture in Howick on Thursday, September 12. Tickets at www.plus1.co.nz...
Mel Parsons’ Bandcamp page says: ‘Sabotage sees the award-winning Lyttelton-based artist exploring darker, melancholic territory on tracks like Offer Down, Little Sadness, and Circling the City. They sit alongside songs such as 5432, the gorgeous Hoping For Rain, and the brooding Sabotage, from which the album takes its name. Also featuring is the track Hardest Thing, which Parsons recently won the MLT Songwriting Award.’
“I like the word, especially with its layered meanings,” says Parsons. “Sabotage comes in many forms. Self-sabotage is the main one in focus here, but leaving it open to however people want to interpret appeals to me as well.
“It was a different process to making previous records – a more collaborative vibe in that it was just two of us who put the whole thing together,” she says. “We jumped around on the instrumentation – I played guitars and some drums; [producer] Josh [Logan] played everything else, and together we pulled the tracks into some kind of song form.”
Caffeine High, say Marmalade, “is a playfully ironic song about working as a barista and getting an intimate look into people’s everyday lives”.
It’s the band’s third single release. The Tāmaki Makaurau five-piece are a group of friends composing music “swinging somewhere between clean-pop and indie-rock… soaring female vocals and honest lyricism float above a steady musical backbone to create a juicy jar full of sounds”.
Marmalade are Jemilah Ross-Hayes (vocals, songwriting), Koen Aldershof (guitars, keys, production, songwriting), Liam Nuttall (lead guitar), Chelsea Naepi (bass), and Dean Rodrigues (drums).
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Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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62.1% Summer
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36.2% Winter
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1.7% Other - I'll share below
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Would you like a free copy of our February 2025 issue?
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