Kiwi music legend Neil Finn is putting his weight behind a bid to bring music to Auckland's Western Springs stadium.
He's supporting the bid by CRS Records to develop a music venue there.
It's among options out for consultation - competing with a plan for a multisport venue put forward by Auckland FC's owners.
Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall says submissions are open until June 15, so there's plenty of time to read through the proposals.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talk ZB right now some of.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
New Zealand's top entertainment industry figures, including Crowd and House
Front and Neil Finn. According on Auklanders to backup proposal
to keep Western Springs Stadium as a world class venue
for concerts, all you have to do is head to
ak have your say dot Auckland Council dot gov dot
MZ and it's got all of us there about the
future of Western Springs Stadium and what the options are.
(00:35):
And you can choose whether you want, you know, the
twelve five hundred seated sports stadium, or you want the
fifty thousand capacity multi purpose sports and entertainment facility or
another option. Because it's Auckland Council is they do nothing.
I've been very naughty anyway, They are just letting you
(00:55):
know that you're allowed to have your safe. Submissions are
open until June fifteenth. Join me out of Talking entertainment.
Steve Nell, editor at Flix dot co dot nz.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
How are you good morning? On Well, thanks very quick
note I have submitted on the stadium consultation.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's super easy, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Do it online just takes complements. Maybe it maybe take
a bit of time to digest the proposals first. On
top of that, yeah, on top of that process.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And I know that you're someone obviously who's involved a
lot with the music industry and arts and culture and
things I'm imagining, and you do not have to tell
me that you would like the idea of having a
large capacity, multi sort of sport entertainment.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah. I think it's a logical. Personally, I think it's
a logical. Next step for the city is to pursue
the ball option and retain public access to Western Springs
Fields year round.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There we go. Okay, let's move on to a new
mental health psychedelic drug doco. It's called mind Menders. It's
starting on Sky open to night at eight thirty. Then
it's going to be on Neon and Sky go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yes, this is a two part documentary which examines possible
solutions to our country's mental health crisis. So it's a
crisis that's real. More than one in every four New
Zealanders suffer from anxiety. We've got skyrocketing rates of alcohol
abuse and methamphetam independence and something's not working. So this
(02:14):
DOOCCO aims to break some taboo around psychedelic drug treatments,
which is really the kind of one of the vanguards
of mental health research at the moment. So Sonia Gray,
who you might be familiar with, it's been a long
time share of her own mental health journey, an advocate
for people's mental wellbeing, and so she goes as a
as a real novice in the space, goes on a
(02:36):
journey to understand more about how psychedelic drug treatments can work.
So that that's taking LSD, that's taking ketamine, that's taking psilocybin.
Things have been taught, you know, the worst possible things.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This is, this has all been researched by the University
of Yes, there's.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
A clinical trials that are underway, and.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's just not popping them at home and seeing how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, the process itself is really interesting. So she participates
in the clinical LSD trial. And so it's not like
she's going to meet someone on the corner of a
street on a Friday night to pick up a little
cash handover. She's getting a parcel full of little vials.
They might be LSD, they might be placebos. That's obviously
how they can track the efficacy of the experiment, and
(03:20):
each day she has to video herself consuming a small
amount under her tongue, So it's to prove that you're
not saving it all up and having a good saved
weekend yep, yep, and instead we're seeing that the progress
or not progress, Like it's a you know, you should
watch this to find out that these things can have.
(03:41):
I find the show was very much in the same
sort of vein as the sort of conversation starts that
Paddy Gower or Guyn Espiner have had around alcohol, and
so I think it's the sort of thing that's going
to be useful to maybe just destigmatize both the mental
health crisis and also the fact that we do need
to look a little bit wider for some of these solutions.
(04:03):
Sonya's a great front person because as we hear from
friends and family, they're all so surprised that she would
consume anything like this, So it makes it very sort
of entertaining, udience surrogate to.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Go on, so very relatable, you know, yeah, big times.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I think this is a good one for friends
and family. This would be a good one to you know,
watch on the couch with the household, definitely have some
interesting chats afterwards, and it's one percent not about getting
wasted on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Nice Dangerous Animals is a new horror slash thriller which
is coming to cinemas this week.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I cannot wait to see this because it just
looks horrible. And I know it's a weird thing to say,
but the whole idea and the premise behind this is
like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But I can't wait to see it totally.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, I want to tell you exactly how horrible it is.
By the New Zealand classification, it is rated R sixteen
for violence, cruelty, offensive language, six scenes and content that
may disturb.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It makes me sound a bit sick.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's okay, but this is this is a really nice
kind of superior B grade thriller. It's set on a
shark expedition boat. It's an Australian sort of low level
Australian tourism setting. And Jay Courtney, who's the leader. He's
a guy that Hollywood sort of tried to make a
leading man quite a few times, like they often do
with Ossie's, like Sam Worthington or whatnot. But here he's
(05:26):
kind of like a sort of mid mid era Russell Crowe.
He's beefed up, he's got this sort of brick something
house physicality to him and is just utterly terrifying as
a normal sort of guy that could just disappear people
off his boat. So not just a malevolent sort of
(05:47):
villain in this, but also lots of hungry sharks people
go off the side, and some of them are separated
into individual components of.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Human beings thanks to nature and a bit of.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
A helping hand from a ossie bloke who's truly terrifying.
So he's kind of like maybe maybe think kind of
across between John Jarrett from Wolf Creek, just that kind
of nasty, jocular, aussy but with a bit more kind
of charisma and that sort of the sort of thing
where he can have this nice light, bloky banter and
(06:20):
be ald jocular. But those eyes man that he plays,
he's playing a terrifying dead eyed guy.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Someone describe it to me as jewels meats Silence of
the Lambs. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
There's a bit of that, It's definitely. It kind of
flirts a little bit with some of the more grubbier
sort of end of the sort of the sort of
genre you woman, woman in Captivity, Hungry Sharks. I already
dug it, and this had me, had me gripped to
the end. Really superior, but very resolutely B grade through.
(06:50):
Our list is in cinemas around the country from Thursday.
There are some sneaks on Wednesday. If you just can't wait.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Go along.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Thank you so much, Steve Good.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
To catch up for more from the Sunday session with
Francesca Rudkin, Listen live to news talks he'd be from
nine am Sunday, or follow the podcas ass on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talk ZB right now some of.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
New Zealand's top entertainment industry figures, including Crowd and House
Front and Neil Finn. According on Auklanders to backup proposal
to keep Western Springs Stadium as a world class venue
for concerts, all you have to do is head to
ak have your say dot Auckland Council dot gov dot
MZ and it's got all of us there about the
future of Western Springs Stadium and what the options are.
(00:35):
And you can choose whether you want, you know, the
twelve five hundred seated sports stadium, or you want the
fifty thousand capacity multi purpose sports and entertainment facility or
another option. Because it's Auckland Council is they do nothing.
I've been very naughty anyway, They are just letting you
(00:55):
know that you're allowed to have your safe. Submissions are
open until June fifteenth. Join me out of Talking entertainment.
Steve Nell, editor at Flix dot co dot nz.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
How are you good morning? On Well, thanks very quick
note I have submitted on the stadium consultation.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
It's super easy, Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Do it online just takes complements. Maybe it maybe take
a bit of time to digest the proposals first. On
top of that, yeah, on top of that process.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And I know that you're someone obviously who's involved a
lot with the music industry and arts and culture and
things I'm imagining, and you do not have to tell
me that you would like the idea of having a
large capacity, multi sort of sport entertainment.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah. I think it's a logical. Personally, I think it's
a logical. Next step for the city is to pursue
the ball option and retain public access to Western Springs
Fields year round.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
There we go. Okay, let's move on to a new
mental health psychedelic drug doco. It's called mind Menders. It's
starting on Sky open to night at eight thirty. Then
it's going to be on Neon and Sky go.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yes, this is a two part documentary which examines possible
solutions to our country's mental health crisis. So it's a
crisis that's real. More than one in every four New
Zealanders suffer from anxiety. We've got skyrocketing rates of alcohol
abuse and methamphetam independence and something's not working. So this
(02:14):
DOOCCO aims to break some taboo around psychedelic drug treatments,
which is really the kind of one of the vanguards
of mental health research at the moment. So Sonia Gray,
who you might be familiar with, it's been a long
time share of her own mental health journey, an advocate
for people's mental wellbeing, and so she goes as a
as a real novice in the space, goes on a
(02:36):
journey to understand more about how psychedelic drug treatments can work.
So that that's taking LSD, that's taking ketamine, that's taking psilocybin.
Things have been taught, you know, the worst possible things.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This is, this has all been researched by the University
of Yes, there's.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
A clinical trials that are underway, and.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
She's just not popping them at home and seeing how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No, the process itself is really interesting. So she participates
in the clinical LSD trial. And so it's not like
she's going to meet someone on the corner of a
street on a Friday night to pick up a little
cash handover. She's getting a parcel full of little vials.
They might be LSD, they might be placebos. That's obviously
how they can track the efficacy of the experiment, and
(03:20):
each day she has to video herself consuming a small
amount under her tongue, So it's to prove that you're
not saving it all up and having a good saved
weekend yep, yep, and instead we're seeing that the progress
or not progress, Like it's a you know, you should
watch this to find out that these things can have.
(03:41):
I find the show was very much in the same
sort of vein as the sort of conversation starts that
Paddy Gower or Guyn Espiner have had around alcohol, and
so I think it's the sort of thing that's going
to be useful to maybe just destigmatize both the mental
health crisis and also the fact that we do need
to look a little bit wider for some of these solutions.
(04:03):
Sonya's a great front person because as we hear from
friends and family, they're all so surprised that she would
consume anything like this, So it makes it very sort
of entertaining, udience surrogate to.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Go on, so very relatable, you know, yeah, big times.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So I think this is a good one for friends
and family. This would be a good one to you know,
watch on the couch with the household, definitely have some
interesting chats afterwards, and it's one percent not about getting
wasted on the weekends.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Nice Dangerous Animals is a new horror slash thriller which
is coming to cinemas this week.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I cannot wait to see this because it just
looks horrible. And I know it's a weird thing to say,
but the whole idea and the premise behind this is
like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
But I can't wait to see it totally.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, I want to tell you exactly how horrible it is.
By the New Zealand classification, it is rated R sixteen
for violence, cruelty, offensive language, six scenes and content that
may disturb.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
It makes me sound a bit sick.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
It's okay, but this is this is a really nice
kind of superior B grade thriller. It's set on a
shark expedition boat. It's an Australian sort of low level
Australian tourism setting. And Jay Courtney, who's the leader. He's
a guy that Hollywood sort of tried to make a
leading man quite a few times, like they often do
with Ossie's, like Sam Worthington or whatnot. But here he's
(05:26):
kind of like a sort of mid mid era Russell Crowe.
He's beefed up, he's got this sort of brick something
house physicality to him and is just utterly terrifying as
a normal sort of guy that could just disappear people
off his boat. So not just a malevolent sort of
(05:47):
villain in this, but also lots of hungry sharks people
go off the side, and some of them are separated
into individual components of.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Human beings thanks to nature and a bit of.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
A helping hand from a ossie bloke who's truly terrifying.
So he's kind of like maybe maybe think kind of
across between John Jarrett from Wolf Creek, just that kind
of nasty, jocular, aussy but with a bit more kind
of charisma and that sort of the sort of thing
where he can have this nice light, bloky banter and
(06:20):
be ald jocular. But those eyes man that he plays,
he's playing a terrifying dead eyed guy.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Someone describe it to me as jewels meats Silence of
the Lambs. Is that fair?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
There's a bit of that, It's definitely. It kind of
flirts a little bit with some of the more grubbier
sort of end of the sort of the sort of
genre you woman, woman in Captivity, Hungry Sharks. I already
dug it, and this had me, had me gripped to
the end. Really superior, but very resolutely B grade through.
(06:50):
Our list is in cinemas around the country from Thursday.
There are some sneaks on Wednesday. If you just can't wait.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Go along.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Thank you so much, Steve Good.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
To catch up for more from the Sunday session with
Francesca Rudkin, Listen live to news talks he'd be from
nine am Sunday, or follow the podcas ass on iHeartRadio.
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