March 13, 2026 • 8 mins
Amid all the nostalgia and reunion tours of late, Kevin Milne has been battling to keep his music taste fresh.
Instead of rushing to buy a ticket for Guns N’ Roses or Split Enz, he picked up a ticket to Kiwi band The Beths and went along last night.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you for your messages. Jack, Sure, let's cycle over
the Harbor Bridge to work from the North Shore. Okay,
as I said, I thought very clearly actually, but perhaps
not as I said, cycling is not perfect for every
journey or every hushole. Nope, I'm not claiming it is.
All I'm saying is that I think many of us
(00:33):
could look at some of the journeys we do and
probably cycle them instead of driving. That's what I reckon,
Jack Aweso Edatorial, thank you on the email this morning.
Dean's flip me a note has been so often, does Jack.
It's been amazing to me for some time now that schools,
conscious of their carbon footprints, haven't been organizing walking school
buses and working with community groups to provide communal bicycles.
(00:55):
A huge improvement in child health, great savings for the planet,
losing the crazy school commutes morning and afternoon. Thank you
for that. Ninety two ninety two is the text number
if you want to send me a message. Jacket News Talks.
He'db dot code on. I just reckon even if it
was one and ten. Even if you even if the
commuter work's not going to work for you, even if
the taking because the school isn't going to work for
(01:15):
that's totally fine. You do you, But I reckon if
you're totally honest, there would be some journeys that you
do in which maybe cycling could be an alternative option
to driving and it would save your money over time.
Nineteen minutes past nine, Kevin Mill, there's with us this morning,
Kilder Kevinder Jack.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
My wife won't let me go out on the bike.
She thinks I'm a better responsible and when you're in
a car being a responsible, which I don't believe I am. Yeah,
she you know you're projected by a wall of steel.
But I think she's a little bit worried that I
(01:57):
do something really is stupid and get run over.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, I mean it definitely takes. I'm not saying cycling
is a risk free exercise. I mean it never has
been said. I actually think if more of us cycled
that cars would be a little bit more aware, but
also collectively would probably get safer because the kind of
general cycling standard of general cyclists would would improve as well.
(02:22):
What about are there any cycle lanes in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Given, Uh, we don't really need them. Where we are
there are cycle lanes, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Mean because one option is just you take that, you
take the quieter streets and things, you know, like you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So no, it's I
think it's great. My mind goes back to the grade
old days of christ Church. Yeah, where all the kids
rode bikes to school. Yeah, you know it was terrific,
wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Totally?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was on my Robin hood classic from hob days,
bicycles and Edgeware roads.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There you go, how good?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
See?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I still I used to ride. I rode my bike
to school when I was a kid all the time,
and all of my mates did too. It was actually
it was the first way out ahead independence, you know,
was to ride to school. And I felt like it
kind of built you know, built a little bit of
maturity in me.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Anyway, anyway, Kevin, you've been battling this week. You might
not be cycling fresh, but you've been battling to keep
your music fresh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I tried to keep up with pop music that's fairly current. Jack.
It's good to avoid continually going to concerts why the
stars of the seventies and eighties fading stars, so it
won't bet the Guns and Roses concert nor Split Ends.
Probably I did go and see the Best at Miao
(03:46):
Nui and Wellington last night. I like the best. When
I told my friends I was going, no one had
heard of them. Disappointing. After all, the best one, best
group and best album I think at the Music Awards
a year or two ago. Naturally, I was keen to
share with the young people I know that I was
(04:07):
off to see the bests, particularly the uber call barista
at my coffee outlet. Her reaction, They're a Wellington band,
aren't they No, they're from Auckland. She was keen to
share that she too, had just bought tickets for his
show Split Ends for goodness sake. Keeping up with the
younger mob has its challenges, though, Jack. After I bought
(04:30):
the Best tickets for Linda, my son Jake, and I
I discovered that they were standing. Only this didn't appeal
to my arthritic knee. Jake did me a favor. He
texts the venue and explained his dad was coming to
the Best show. He had a dodgy knee. Could they
spring the old fellow a seat, Sure, they said, when
(04:52):
he gets here, let's know and we'll set him up
on a chair at the back. Now, Jake wasn't sure
that I'd accept this, He said, I beat you when
asked for the chair. Your pride won't let you sit
in an old man and cheer out the back. He
had a damn good point, as it turned out. When
we got there, all three of us were given seats
(05:14):
in the flash upstairs area. Ashley Bloomfield was there, Sir Ashley,
that meol knew is a terrific new venue in Wellington.
Totally enjoyed the show. The beds are a hell of
the band rockier than I expected. But I now await
bad Bunny to hit down. You're never too old to
(05:35):
get into some Puerto Rican pop. You'd be into Latin track,
wouldn't you, jack.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Ah, isn't it a bad bunny for you this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Do you know? I?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I do like a little bit of Latin music from
time to time. Kevin, he wouldn't be my He wouldn't
be my go to. I'd usually go for a little
bit of Rosalia maybe, or when she's singing singing in Spanish,
maybe go for a little bit of Miguel as well.
They kind of crossover problem is that I struggle to
understand what they're saying. But yeah, I mean, how good
to be diversifying your tastes given.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's great. It's great to hear a vocalist who's still
got a bit of voice left. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
she's had her what's her name, Elizabeth Slokes. She's she's
like at the peak of her career and and her
voice is just brilliant. And you know, you just get
tired of going along to see some of these old
(06:34):
stars and clearly, clearly their voices are not good.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't know that's not good, Kevin. They might just
be a slightly different experience in the past. But yeah,
I know I think.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No, I'm not putting I'm not putting down splod ends
of course.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, No, it's true that over time most of us
would see a bit of a change.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I saw crowded house and in the last year,
that's enough for me in that sort of area. Yeah,
but yeah, I just thought it was it was a
great night at a fantastic venue.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Very good, Kevin. I'm pleased to hear it, And good
on you for trying something new. Kevin milm with us
this morning, and thank you very much for your text.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Check.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
My high school in Hawk's Bay in the nineties had
twelve hundred kids, four hundred of them bike. My son's
high school in Auckland today has two thousand kids. Seven
bike to school. Jack, I say about three hundred bucks
a month by biking to work. I still drive if
I need to, but the bike is much more fun
and I never get stuck in traffic. Simon, right on, Jack,
(07:35):
how do you get by riding your bike in Auckland
and all of the Auckland rain, says Charlie. Good question.
I mean it was a little bit damp this morning.
I'm in Auckland this morning, a little bit damp. So
what I did is I rode in shorts and I
put my trousers in my back, and then when I
got to work, I changed out of my I changed
out of my shorts and put on my trousers. Was
pretty simple. I mean, it's true that you do get
(07:57):
caught sometimes if it's absolutely pouring with that. And this
is the other thing. If it's absolutely pouring with rain,
I will take the bus, or I will get an
uber or I'll drive. I'm just saying, if you cut
out a little bit of driving a few journeys from
time to time, especially when petrol's going through the roof
and our supplies looking a little bit uncertain, then maybe
you'll find you actually save a bit of money.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast
from News Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thank you for your messages. Jack, Sure, let's cycle over
the Harbor Bridge to work from the North Shore. Okay,
as I said, I thought very clearly actually, but perhaps
not as I said, cycling is not perfect for every
journey or every hushole. Nope, I'm not claiming it is.
All I'm saying is that I think many of us
(00:33):
could look at some of the journeys we do and
probably cycle them instead of driving. That's what I reckon,
Jack Aweso Edatorial, thank you on the email this morning.
Dean's flip me a note has been so often, does Jack.
It's been amazing to me for some time now that schools,
conscious of their carbon footprints, haven't been organizing walking school
buses and working with community groups to provide communal bicycles.
(00:55):
A huge improvement in child health, great savings for the planet,
losing the crazy school commutes morning and afternoon. Thank you
for that. Ninety two ninety two is the text number
if you want to send me a message. Jacket News Talks.
He'db dot code on. I just reckon even if it
was one and ten. Even if you even if the
commuter work's not going to work for you, even if
the taking because the school isn't going to work for
(01:15):
that's totally fine. You do you, But I reckon if
you're totally honest, there would be some journeys that you
do in which maybe cycling could be an alternative option
to driving and it would save your money over time.
Nineteen minutes past nine, Kevin Mill, there's with us this morning,
Kilder Kevinder Jack.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
My wife won't let me go out on the bike.
She thinks I'm a better responsible and when you're in
a car being a responsible, which I don't believe I am. Yeah,
she you know you're projected by a wall of steel.
But I think she's a little bit worried that I
(01:57):
do something really is stupid and get run over.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, I mean it definitely takes. I'm not saying cycling
is a risk free exercise. I mean it never has
been said. I actually think if more of us cycled
that cars would be a little bit more aware, but
also collectively would probably get safer because the kind of
general cycling standard of general cyclists would would improve as well.
(02:22):
What about are there any cycle lanes in your neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Given, Uh, we don't really need them. Where we are
there are cycle lanes, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Mean because one option is just you take that, you
take the quieter streets and things, you know, like you don't.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So no, it's I
think it's great. My mind goes back to the grade
old days of christ Church. Yeah, where all the kids
rode bikes to school. Yeah, you know it was terrific,
wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Totally?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I was on my Robin hood classic from hob days,
bicycles and Edgeware roads.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
There you go, how good?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
See?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I still I used to ride. I rode my bike
to school when I was a kid all the time,
and all of my mates did too. It was actually
it was the first way out ahead independence, you know,
was to ride to school. And I felt like it
kind of built you know, built a little bit of
maturity in me.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Anyway, anyway, Kevin, you've been battling this week. You might
not be cycling fresh, but you've been battling to keep
your music fresh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I tried to keep up with pop music that's fairly current. Jack.
It's good to avoid continually going to concerts why the
stars of the seventies and eighties fading stars, so it
won't bet the Guns and Roses concert nor Split Ends.
Probably I did go and see the Best at Miao
(03:46):
Nui and Wellington last night. I like the best. When
I told my friends I was going, no one had
heard of them. Disappointing. After all, the best one, best
group and best album I think at the Music Awards
a year or two ago. Naturally, I was keen to
share with the young people I know that I was
(04:07):
off to see the bests, particularly the uber call barista
at my coffee outlet. Her reaction, They're a Wellington band,
aren't they No, they're from Auckland. She was keen to
share that she too, had just bought tickets for his
show Split Ends for goodness sake. Keeping up with the
younger mob has its challenges, though, Jack. After I bought
(04:30):
the Best tickets for Linda, my son Jake, and I
I discovered that they were standing. Only this didn't appeal
to my arthritic knee. Jake did me a favor. He
texts the venue and explained his dad was coming to
the Best show. He had a dodgy knee. Could they
spring the old fellow a seat, Sure, they said, when
(04:52):
he gets here, let's know and we'll set him up
on a chair at the back. Now, Jake wasn't sure
that I'd accept this, He said, I beat you when
asked for the chair. Your pride won't let you sit
in an old man and cheer out the back. He
had a damn good point, as it turned out. When
we got there, all three of us were given seats
(05:14):
in the flash upstairs area. Ashley Bloomfield was there, Sir Ashley,
that meol knew is a terrific new venue in Wellington.
Totally enjoyed the show. The beds are a hell of
the band rockier than I expected. But I now await
bad Bunny to hit down. You're never too old to
(05:35):
get into some Puerto Rican pop. You'd be into Latin track,
wouldn't you, jack.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Ah, isn't it a bad bunny for you this morning?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Do you know? I?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I do like a little bit of Latin music from
time to time. Kevin, he wouldn't be my He wouldn't
be my go to. I'd usually go for a little
bit of Rosalia maybe, or when she's singing singing in Spanish,
maybe go for a little bit of Miguel as well.
They kind of crossover problem is that I struggle to
understand what they're saying. But yeah, I mean, how good
to be diversifying your tastes given.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's great. It's great to hear a vocalist who's still
got a bit of voice left. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
she's had her what's her name, Elizabeth Slokes. She's she's
like at the peak of her career and and her
voice is just brilliant. And you know, you just get
tired of going along to see some of these old
(06:34):
stars and clearly, clearly their voices are not good.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I don't know that's not good, Kevin. They might just
be a slightly different experience in the past. But yeah,
I know I think.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
No, I'm not putting I'm not putting down splod ends
of course.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, No, it's true that over time most of us
would see a bit of a change.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah. Yeah, I saw crowded house and in the last year,
that's enough for me in that sort of area. Yeah,
but yeah, I just thought it was it was a
great night at a fantastic venue.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Very good, Kevin. I'm pleased to hear it, And good
on you for trying something new. Kevin milm with us
this morning, and thank you very much for your text.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Check.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
My high school in Hawk's Bay in the nineties had
twelve hundred kids, four hundred of them bike. My son's
high school in Auckland today has two thousand kids. Seven
bike to school. Jack, I say about three hundred bucks
a month by biking to work. I still drive if
I need to, but the bike is much more fun
and I never get stuck in traffic. Simon, right on, Jack,
(07:35):
how do you get by riding your bike in Auckland
and all of the Auckland rain, says Charlie. Good question.
I mean it was a little bit damp this morning.
I'm in Auckland this morning, a little bit damp. So
what I did is I rode in shorts and I
put my trousers in my back, and then when I
got to work, I changed out of my I changed
out of my shorts and put on my trousers. Was
pretty simple. I mean, it's true that you do get
(07:57):
caught sometimes if it's absolutely pouring with that. And this
is the other thing. If it's absolutely pouring with rain,
I will take the bus, or I will get an
uber or I'll drive. I'm just saying, if you cut
out a little bit of driving a few journeys from
time to time, especially when petrol's going through the roof
and our supplies looking a little bit uncertain, then maybe
you'll find you actually save a bit of money.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live
to News Talks ed B from nine am Saturday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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