July 28, 2025 • 8 mins
This week on Music Time, Nick and James preview a New Zealand band out of retirement with an imminent tour and vinyl release, ponder pirate metal and German reggae musical genres and check out all the gigs around the capital.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from news Talk said b Higgs new releases and keeping
tabs on local artists his music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Morny, Welcome James, he came to it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Nice to have you in there, Nice to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, I know you want to talk about one of
your favorite New Zealand bands that has come out of retirement,
But first I wanted you to please give a couple
of mentions from musicians that we lost that were not Ozzie.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, because yeah, that's what I thought about. So Ozzie
sucked all the news headlines in the last sort of
ten days since he par seven, seven or eight days
since he passed, and so I was thinking about it
this morning. I was like, who else has passed? And
there were a couple of quite prominent musicians someone who died.
There is a guy called George Coyman's who died on
zactly the same day as Ossie. Now you probably he's
not a household name. But everyone who's ever been to
(01:01):
a bar, any of your bars over the years, has
had a cover band play. Everyone's going to know the songs.
I'm gonna play that very shortly. He was in a
band called Golden Earrings. Originally the Golden Earrings loaded down
to Golden Earrings. And then another woman, Connie Francis, who
was very famous in the sixties, kind of just before
the big great British invasion hit the world. She was
(01:21):
the first ever American woman to go number one in
the Billboard charts. So both quite big, prominentary and so
let's quick you play, you'll recognize both songs. I think
Radar Loves Due Every couples Band Essential, Here we go
here and he's Connie Francis, Betty Little Baby, Betty Little Baby.
(01:54):
This is the first female on the bill Ye, totally.
And she just went viral in May all the kids
on TikTok apparently the song went huge, very big on TikTok,
massive on TikTok, and so she joined Talk at the
end of May. Unfortunately she died about eight days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So she was eighty seven, so she had a good innings.
(02:16):
So I thought, you know, it's quite nice. Sometimes there's
always you know, there's always one feature and that sucks
all the air out of everything else, a bit like
how you know, Donald Trump plays it. You know, he
puts something and he sucks all the other news out
of the place. Hey, now I wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
To talk about this band.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It was the band. It's a band called Minui. Now,
first of all, a lot of listeners might think I
don't know them. They were a really big New Zealand
band in the early two thousands that kind of grew
really organically. I saw them a lot live. It's probably
more our gen X and a millennial listeners who are
going to know the more they were electronic. Man. Every
(02:52):
time I saw this band live over the years, they
just put so much energy into it and I really
loved their music. They've played internationally from sort of Hanoi
to Helsinki. They played famous big clubs in London like
Fabric Live. Which is would we recognize their music? I
don't know if people are going to necessarily recognize their
music straight off. But what I wanted to say today
(03:14):
is that they're reforming, they're playing that they've already sold
out Auckland to a big venue in Auckland. They're playing
Meo Nui. They've been upgraded to Meo Nui. If it's
about a thousand. I had a look on the weekend.
There was hardly any tickets left for that, so that
means the nearly sold one thousand tickets. They're playing christ Church,
They're playing Nelson. They were a terrific band now they
Their first album, the eighty eight, came out in two
(03:35):
thousand and three and it's been absolute It's been on
CD in my house for years and I love it.
And they are also re releasing this album. I know
this is going to sell out. This is one of
the albums that you can I really like our bands
through this. You can buy it from August on their
band camp page. So Minui which is a French name,
(03:56):
so it's m I n u it dot bandcamp dot
com and you've better pick up this final We're going
to play you some in a minute. All the money
when you buy through band camp, pretty much the majority
the money goes to the band, doesn't go to some
promoter or some record club. And ironically I was playing
Minweir a couple of nights ago at home and my
wife MJ came in and she said, oh, you know,
well this is really great. What's this? She said, me
(04:17):
played over the years. I said it's Minue and she's like,
I think that's my a guy I've been working with lately,
I think that's his band, and I was like, no,
it's not. Well sure enough. It was so Paul, who's
one of the Who's who's a fantastic dance record producer
and videographer and all sorts of other things. His partner Ruth,
who's the singer. And what I really like about the
singer of this band, her Cadence her just we have Yeah, yeah,
(04:42):
it's just an interesting sound. Let's have a listen. And
if we saw as what you and me, Yeah, really
(05:21):
interesting vocal delivery by Ruth the singer. I really like it.
Just huge sound. So if you're thinking about doing something
different and you can still get yourself tickets SearchMan we
m I n U I t buy the new album
on band camp. It's it's a cracker and you know,
I'm gonna go along to the gig. And I just
(05:42):
think that they're a great band and probably one that
a lot of our listeners haven't heard. But I think,
you know, sometimes let's push, let's push the limits and
I open up some new stuff. Hey, nels received a
lot of record company pr lately. I get sent lots
of stuff and I had one yesterday and it was
a band called Piglets from Melbourne and it said enjoy
the latest from jumble Pop, and I was like, what
the heck is jumble pop? So I'm getting all these
(06:04):
ridiculous genres, you know, like, yes, we know rock, we
know old rock, we know electronic and we know no punk. Yeah,
we know punk. We're know all this sort of stuff.
So i'd look through all my latest emails. Over the
last year, We've had vaporware. We've had pirate metal, which is, yeah,
you can imagine weird pirate voices doing heavy metal, medieval folk,
(06:25):
math rock which is very complicated, guitar pieces, cat step,
which I still don't have a clue what cat step
is but is apparently a follow on from fifth Step,
German reggae, which is just truly horrific, and split a
core which had bpms up to one thousand beats a second,
I mean a minute where you almost cannot distinguish the music,
(06:47):
so punishing. So I thought I'd give you some other stuff.
So here today we have chap hop, which is upper
class English hip hop.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You say yes please.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Glea gothic country banjo, and about death back to deliveries
and then country hop from the Deep South with Big Smow.
(07:26):
There you go country hip hop. That's got to be
an oxymoron in itself. You know that Big Schmoe comes
from the Deep South.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To the German regga.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
German rega that's just truly terrible. Is that what I'm imagining? Yeah? Yeah,
in German German language and just terrible, terrible. It sounded
like your worst cover band nightmare. So interesting stuff. Give
us some live gigs. We're running out of time. We
are running out of time, so we've got salmonella. Dubb
Sound Systems. August the first at mew Hey Cool one,
I reckon, and I keep seeing the signs around Willington,
(07:57):
Verde are masked ball. It's opera. It's at the opera house.
I reckon. That's going to be pretty cool. Six to
tenth of August. If you're into some forbidden love, if
you're in to high drama, then get yourself along to that.
If you're looking for something interesting to listen to today,
go to YouTube Chuck and she Had at Square two
thousand and five and watch fifty minutes of she Had
(08:19):
delivering the most blistering rock set. I have ever seen.
And it's where supposedly they broke the car park and
the new Atia car Park building in Auckland. Johnny too good,
great friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, we must actually put that on our website, on
our Facebook page that because I think a lot of
people would, I mean obviously came she had come from Wellington.
James Irwin, always a pleasure, never a pain. Thank you
very much for updating us on that. I like that
country country hop, country hop. I'm going to get the
German reggae, not the Geryman Rego bye, I better go bye.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks There'd Be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from news Talk said b Higgs new releases and keeping
tabs on local artists his music time on Wellington Mornings.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Morny, Welcome James, he came to it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Nice to have you in there, Nice to be here.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, I know you want to talk about one of
your favorite New Zealand bands that has come out of retirement,
But first I wanted you to please give a couple
of mentions from musicians that we lost that were not Ozzie.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, because yeah, that's what I thought about. So Ozzie
sucked all the news headlines in the last sort of
ten days since he par seven, seven or eight days
since he passed, and so I was thinking about it
this morning. I was like, who else has passed? And
there were a couple of quite prominent musicians someone who died.
There is a guy called George Coyman's who died on
zactly the same day as Ossie. Now you probably he's
not a household name. But everyone who's ever been to
(01:01):
a bar, any of your bars over the years, has
had a cover band play. Everyone's going to know the songs.
I'm gonna play that very shortly. He was in a
band called Golden Earrings. Originally the Golden Earrings loaded down
to Golden Earrings. And then another woman, Connie Francis, who
was very famous in the sixties, kind of just before
the big great British invasion hit the world. She was
(01:21):
the first ever American woman to go number one in
the Billboard charts. So both quite big, prominentary and so
let's quick you play, you'll recognize both songs. I think
Radar Loves Due Every couples Band Essential, Here we go
here and he's Connie Francis, Betty Little Baby, Betty Little Baby.
(01:54):
This is the first female on the bill Ye, totally.
And she just went viral in May all the kids
on TikTok apparently the song went huge, very big on TikTok,
massive on TikTok, and so she joined Talk at the
end of May. Unfortunately she died about eight days ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So she was eighty seven, so she had a good innings.
(02:16):
So I thought, you know, it's quite nice. Sometimes there's
always you know, there's always one feature and that sucks
all the air out of everything else, a bit like
how you know, Donald Trump plays it. You know, he
puts something and he sucks all the other news out
of the place. Hey, now I wanted.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
To talk about this band.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It was the band. It's a band called Minui. Now,
first of all, a lot of listeners might think I
don't know them. They were a really big New Zealand
band in the early two thousands that kind of grew
really organically. I saw them a lot live. It's probably
more our gen X and a millennial listeners who are
going to know the more they were electronic. Man. Every
(02:52):
time I saw this band live over the years, they
just put so much energy into it and I really
loved their music. They've played internationally from sort of Hanoi
to Helsinki. They played famous big clubs in London like
Fabric Live. Which is would we recognize their music? I
don't know if people are going to necessarily recognize their
music straight off. But what I wanted to say today
(03:14):
is that they're reforming, they're playing that they've already sold
out Auckland to a big venue in Auckland. They're playing
Meo Nui. They've been upgraded to Meo Nui. If it's
about a thousand. I had a look on the weekend.
There was hardly any tickets left for that, so that
means the nearly sold one thousand tickets. They're playing christ Church,
They're playing Nelson. They were a terrific band now they
Their first album, the eighty eight, came out in two
(03:35):
thousand and three and it's been absolute It's been on
CD in my house for years and I love it.
And they are also re releasing this album. I know
this is going to sell out. This is one of
the albums that you can I really like our bands
through this. You can buy it from August on their
band camp page. So Minui which is a French name,
(03:56):
so it's m I n u it dot bandcamp dot
com and you've better pick up this final We're going
to play you some in a minute. All the money
when you buy through band camp, pretty much the majority
the money goes to the band, doesn't go to some
promoter or some record club. And ironically I was playing
Minweir a couple of nights ago at home and my
wife MJ came in and she said, oh, you know,
well this is really great. What's this? She said, me
(04:17):
played over the years. I said it's Minue and she's like,
I think that's my a guy I've been working with lately,
I think that's his band, and I was like, no,
it's not. Well sure enough. It was so Paul, who's
one of the Who's who's a fantastic dance record producer
and videographer and all sorts of other things. His partner Ruth,
who's the singer. And what I really like about the
singer of this band, her Cadence her just we have Yeah, yeah,
(04:42):
it's just an interesting sound. Let's have a listen. And
if we saw as what you and me, Yeah, really
(05:21):
interesting vocal delivery by Ruth the singer. I really like it.
Just huge sound. So if you're thinking about doing something
different and you can still get yourself tickets SearchMan we
m I n U I t buy the new album
on band camp. It's it's a cracker and you know,
I'm gonna go along to the gig. And I just
(05:42):
think that they're a great band and probably one that
a lot of our listeners haven't heard. But I think,
you know, sometimes let's push, let's push the limits and
I open up some new stuff. Hey, nels received a
lot of record company pr lately. I get sent lots
of stuff and I had one yesterday and it was
a band called Piglets from Melbourne and it said enjoy
the latest from jumble Pop, and I was like, what
the heck is jumble pop? So I'm getting all these
(06:04):
ridiculous genres, you know, like, yes, we know rock, we
know old rock, we know electronic and we know no punk. Yeah,
we know punk. We're know all this sort of stuff.
So i'd look through all my latest emails. Over the
last year, We've had vaporware. We've had pirate metal, which is, yeah,
you can imagine weird pirate voices doing heavy metal, medieval folk,
(06:25):
math rock which is very complicated, guitar pieces, cat step,
which I still don't have a clue what cat step
is but is apparently a follow on from fifth Step,
German reggae, which is just truly horrific, and split a
core which had bpms up to one thousand beats a second,
I mean a minute where you almost cannot distinguish the music,
(06:47):
so punishing. So I thought I'd give you some other stuff.
So here today we have chap hop, which is upper
class English hip hop.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You say yes please.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Glea gothic country banjo, and about death back to deliveries
and then country hop from the Deep South with Big Smow.
(07:26):
There you go country hip hop. That's got to be
an oxymoron in itself. You know that Big Schmoe comes
from the Deep South.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To the German regga.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
German rega that's just truly terrible. Is that what I'm imagining? Yeah? Yeah,
in German German language and just terrible, terrible. It sounded
like your worst cover band nightmare. So interesting stuff. Give
us some live gigs. We're running out of time. We
are running out of time, so we've got salmonella. Dubb
Sound Systems. August the first at mew Hey Cool one,
I reckon, and I keep seeing the signs around Willington,
(07:57):
Verde are masked ball. It's opera. It's at the opera house.
I reckon. That's going to be pretty cool. Six to
tenth of August. If you're into some forbidden love, if
you're in to high drama, then get yourself along to that.
If you're looking for something interesting to listen to today,
go to YouTube Chuck and she Had at Square two
thousand and five and watch fifty minutes of she Had
(08:19):
delivering the most blistering rock set. I have ever seen.
And it's where supposedly they broke the car park and
the new Atia car Park building in Auckland. Johnny too good,
great friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Okay, we must actually put that on our website, on
our Facebook page that because I think a lot of
people would, I mean obviously came she had come from Wellington.
James Irwin, always a pleasure, never a pain. Thank you
very much for updating us on that. I like that
country country hop, country hop. I'm going to get the
German reggae, not the Geryman Rego bye, I better go bye.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks There'd Be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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