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Philip Matthews04:55, May 08 2021 Te Ao Bic Runga wants more musicians to take the leap to help bilingualism within the industry after releasing her latest te reo Māori song, Kāore He Wā. THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. “New Zealand music wonder-girl Bic Runga​ went back to school – and it was fun,” The Press reported on February 11, 1999. “In a visit to Christchurch as part of a whirlwind New Zealand tour, the last thing Runga expected when she called in to her old school, Cashmere High...

Clowndog – with frontman Spanky on guitar, drummer Idiot Pants and Sherbert on bass – won the regional finals in the Smokefree Rockquest and went on to play support slots for Bic Runga and Salmonella Dub. Moore’s band once beat Shapeshifter in a Christchurch band competition and was infamous for hurling raw meat into the audience. “We mostly threw sausages but all sorts of small-goods really. You know you're from a different time when you tell students you threw meat. 'Meat!', they say now, horrified,” Moore said. “I once threw a half-defrosted chicken at a gig in St Albans pa...

Bic Runga says more music artists should join te reo Māori movement in making the music industry bilingual.

The Mums of Dunedin Help Me Define Mumcore You’re eight years old in the back seat of mum’s station wagon. She’s taking you to touch rugby practice and lovingly chain smoking in the front because it’s still legal in the early 2000s. “BUSTER, BUSTER, BUSTER,” you yell at your Nintendog. Buster can’t hear you over the Bic Runga blasting from her debut CD Drive. It’s the soundtrack to your childhood.    The search term “Mumcore” gets you no Google results, yet we all know what it is. Shania Twain, James Blunt, Fleetwood Mac, the national anthems of motherhood. A pregnant wo...

"I walked into the studio, met Don, sung it a few times and then left. Little did we know what it would go on to become."