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Bruce McLaren Retirement Village
August 7 is Aged Care Employee Day. Today, we take the opportunity to honour our compassionate and dedicated carers. Introducing Helen Danielsen, who has worked in the Special Care Unit at Ernest Rutherford Village for 15 years.
When Senior Caregiver Helen Danielsen first joined the Ernest … View moreAugust 7 is Aged Care Employee Day. Today, we take the opportunity to honour our compassionate and dedicated carers. Introducing Helen Danielsen, who has worked in the Special Care Unit at Ernest Rutherford Village for 15 years.
When Senior Caregiver Helen Danielsen first joined the Ernest Rutherford Special Care team, it was working the night shift as it was the perfect job to manage while she raised her children as a single mum.
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Richard from Cockle Bay
All in perfect condition reason for selling im now using prescription glasses so dont need it anymore!price is firm
Negotiable
Pati from Bucklands Beach
Hello neighbours
I am here to ask you guys a favor.
The Marina Fitness gym might close down as the Council does not want to renew the contract for the rental.
There is a petition and we would appreciate if you could help us out by signing it.
chng.it...
Thanks a lot! ❤️
Lewis from Foxy Feet Football Academy
Term 3 soccer practice starts today 4:30pm at Pakuranga College.
For ages 5 to 12 years
The Team from Neighbourly.co.nz
It may be fine now but in a few years trees can block out light or views for neighbours.
Do you think neighbours should ask before they go ahead and plant these?
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Keen to avoid traffic and find a healthier, more fun way to get to work? Or fancy a weekend mission exploring your neighbourhood on two wheels? How about saving money on fuel, reducing your carbon and boosting your health all at the same time? On an eBike you can do all this without arriving a … View moreKeen to avoid traffic and find a healthier, more fun way to get to work? Or fancy a weekend mission exploring your neighbourhood on two wheels? How about saving money on fuel, reducing your carbon and boosting your health all at the same time? On an eBike you can do all this without arriving a sweaty mess, either!
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Nic George Reporter from Stuff
With bin tags on the way out, we want to hear how much you are still spending on them.
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Ellie from Howick
Tickets and more info here: events.humanitix.com...
Roger from Somerville
Caltex today 263.9 per litre.
BP by K Mart 11 cents cheaper yet again.
Why use Caltex unless you really have to when they have been stinging you for months and months.
BP even cheaper than Gull 260.9.
Jan from Half Moon Bay
I have just written and illustrated my first childrens book called Stanley and the Magic Ladybird, a lovely story to read to young children. The books are $22 each and I am happy to deliver for free in the East Auckland area. Ph 0274450423
Price: $22
Phil from Farm Cove
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 … View moreIt’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).
East FM is East Auckland’s fair-dinkum community-powered public service radio station, on 88.1FM and 107.1FM on local frequencies, nationally and globally at www.eastfm.nz... and on app iHeart Radio.
She’ll Be Right - it’s all about the vibe; it’s all about the groove. Providing a platform for NZ music and performance artists to exhibit their talents since ages ago. Ka pai. – PJ
Phil from Farm Cove
As a Gen Xer and NZ music enthusiast, it’s taken these days to comprehend the loss of Martin Phillipps, who died last Sunday aged 61. That’s too young, but what an extraordinarily full life, with a significant chunk of it on the road playing his music of The Chills to audiences in this country … View moreAs a Gen Xer and NZ music enthusiast, it’s taken these days to comprehend the loss of Martin Phillipps, who died last Sunday aged 61. That’s too young, but what an extraordinarily full life, with a significant chunk of it on the road playing his music of The Chills to audiences in this country and across the planet.
As an indie-rock band out of Dunedin, and for its Kiwi fans (us Gen Zers), it has always been a great source of pride that one of ours generated attention abroad.
They attracted fans everywhere, and the only time I met him was on foreign soil at a venue, The Orange, at Islington, in London, around 1996. Our band had a gig upstairs in the acoustic room, while The Chills were headlining in the main room below. Sound check times overlapped and we talked while waiting around. They were road warriors, on one of their many UK and European tours.
I remember seeing them at the late-great Gluepot here in the late 1980s, too, the last NZ gig before heading overseas for the first time to fly the flag for the Dunedin Sound.
Martin Phillipps will be missed. A great New Zealander who accentuated our national character in all his eccentricities. The legacy he leaves with us is priceless, music so vast in quantity and lush in quality, and those who were fortunate enough to acquire a taonga from recent online sales of his legendary pop-culture collection know they now possess a wonderful connection to a man that showed the world what Kiwis can do. And acquire.
There are many of Phillipps’ and The Chills songs that are part of our national cultural DNA, the soundtrack to the Gen Xer life – I Love My Leather Jacket, Heavenly Pop Hit, Pink Frost, Kaleidoscope World, Doldrums, Rolling Moon – and recent albums, Snow Bound (2018) and Scatterbrain (2021), are regular favourites, especially the driving song Complex:
I’m not the man you think I am
I’m a complex piece of the plan…
Essential viewing: One of the best music documentaries is The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps, made in recent years and telling the story of a determined Kiwi bloke driven to take his music to the world, and of a band that must have the record for most members over four decades. And at the end, he and they were at their most settled and enjoying the most original of NZ indie rock n’ roll. – PJ
I’ll be playing music by The Chills on tomorrow’s She’ll Be Right on Saturdays Show with PJ Taylor, midday to 4pm on East FM, East Auckland’s fair-dinkum community-powered public service radio station, on 88.1FM and 107.1FM on local frequencies, nationally and globally at www.eastfm.nz... and on app iHeart Radio.
Photo: Martin Phillipps in the 1980s. Page 293 in John Dix's book Stranded in Paradise, the History of NZ Rock n' Roll 1955-1988.
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Tell… View moreIs your dad superb with sandpaper, pristine with a palette knife and perfect with a paintbrush? Or maybe he's risky with a roller, mad with masking tape and comedic when cutting in? Either way we'd like to hear about your DIY dad and why he deserves to win this Father's Day.
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