The Show: Game over

game-over

Greetings friends, family, whānau.

Today is our last show before we head off on an indefinite sabbatical. Other commitments mean we need to take a break for a while.

The Joint first broadcast on RDU way back in July 2001 when the frequency was still 98.3FM. We started out on Sunday afternoons but after a while switched to Saturday afternoons. The reasons are lost in the mists of time.

By our really rough and unscientific calculations we reckon we’ve done 665 shows so far. That makes this final show today episode number 666. Not a shabby effort really. To put that in some completely unrelated context Ryan Giggs made 672 league appearances for Manchester United and David O’Leary made 558 league appearance for Arsenal.

Thank you for all your kind messages via Facebook, Twitter and the RDU text machine. It was a blast.

To paraphrase and plagiarise James Murphy…

Yeah, we lost our edge
The kids came up from behind
We lost our edge to the kids
From France and from London
And from Christchurch
But we were there
We lost our edge to better-looking people
With better ideas and more talent
And they’re actually really, really nice

xox
Ka kite ano
The Herb Whisperer & Fraserhead

Direct download: The_Joint_2016-04-09-12-16.mp3

Here’s the playlist in full…

The Show: Snippa snopp

Snippa and snopp? Sweden invents a word for girls’ genitals equivalent to ‘willy’ for boys.

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-10-24-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: Moodymenn

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-07-18-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: The Trendees UNPLUGGED

The Trendees - live and unplugged on The Joint
The Trendees – Oamaru’s finest – live and unplugged on The Joint.
L to R: Matt Trendee, Eden Trendee and Austen Trendee

It’s been several years in the making but today was the on-air unplugged debut on The Joint of Oamaru’s finest, The Trendees.

Thank you Matt Trendee, Austen Trendee and Eden Trendee for cutting short your yoga workshop on Banks Peninsula and dropping in to answer some questions and playing The Trendees classics And Remember (it’s only a job) and Beach.

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-06-20-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

The Show: Heaven to hell in a heartbeat

Thanks to MUDD from Soundcheck for inadvertently giving us the title of today’s show when, during an unexpected visit to the RDUnit, he described his reaction to the tunes we like to play on the radio.

And here’s the playlist in full…

Direct download: The_Joint_2015-04-04-12-14.mp3

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm