Aug/091
A sandwich with all kinds of fillings
I was just thinking this week that, if I had to think of a metaphor to describe our shows so far, it would be that of an hour-long sandwich crammed with all kinds of fillings. I mean all kinds. We don't strive to create any harmony in the sandwiches we make. In other words, we don't do 'chicken and cranberry', or 'baked beans and cheese on toast'. We do the Everything Sandwich.
For instance, we had a chat with Ravi from Urban Fusion about Indian Independence Day, which is this Saturday. It was also Islam Awareness Week this week, so we had a meaty conversation with Hanif and Shamim about Muslims living in New Zealand. They've recently contributed to a beautiful photographic book- The Crescent Moon- which is well worth a look.
Sandwiched in-between is a quite hilarious interview with Hot Club Sandwich about hot club jazz, who play every Friday at the Old St Paul's on Molesworth Street, and the namesake of this post. Andrew London was such a ball of sunshine.
And to end it all off, an interview with Luit Bieringa, director of the successful New Zealand-made film 'The Man in the Hat'.
If we had managed to get the simulcast going this week, you would have been able to see the state of chaos that sometimes happens behind the scenes with us. Not sure yet if it is a bad or good thing that all the carry-on in the studio was all hidden from the view of listeners. I guess we'll find out after I figure out why the USB port refused to detect my camera.
0:21 Indian Independence Day. Check out Urban Fusion.
6:37 Islam Awareness Week
20:08 Hot Club Sandwich
32:06 The Man in the Hat
August 17th, 2009
Nice sandwich analogy – a fitting description indeed! I don’t know how you guys squeeze so much into an hour long programme, I’m looking forward to being able to view some of this chaos when the simulcast is running!