Thursday, 03 December 2009 11:13
11:00am to 12:00 noon every Monday
Project Lyttelton is a non-profit grassroots organisation committed to building a sustainable, connected community. This one hour show is hosted by Project Lyttelton Members who touch on important topics such as supporting local food production, looking at ways to meet energy needs through innovative community-based solutions, minimising waste, and finding ways for the people of the peninsula to come together and play, share ideas, information and skills.
The range of topics and initiatives continues to grow each week, so tune in and find out how to make the most of your beautiful community!
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7 - 10amMacTodd Monday with Ray Blake This show is designed to ease you into the week, with no special genre just everything from 1930's southern blues to lashings of country rock.
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Long time residents of Lyttelton, and owners of the port Provedoring Company, J Voyce and Co; John and Sue Fitzgerald bring you a show of shipping and port news and local views, a bit of quirky banter and special guests.
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11am - 12 noon Operating as a non-profit grassroots organisation
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Monday Report features topical concersations, community notices, sports club and school sports results, and public serivce announcements.
2pm - 3.30pm Seismic Shift with Kenny Shaking up Monday afternoonas Kenny brings a mix of music news and views to take you through the afternoon. |
| 3.30 - 4pm The Lauren & Milly Show Join Lauren & Milly after school and listen to your favourite pop tracks...maybe give them a call and request a song or let them know what's happenoing in your neck of the woods. |
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New Show coming soon
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Graeme plays a mix of great music, always on-theme for the week, and always something different.
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Ben Brown is a children's author, poet, and freelance non-fiction writer. Experience his sonorous expositions on the Green Fuse Poetry Hour.
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Volcano's Talkback Show. Phone in and give your opinion or suggest a topic for discussion. It's always interesting with Mark!
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10:30pm - 12am Ninety minutes of energetic alternative music, featuring bands that shaped the punkrock/HC scene in the 80s and 90s as well as those that keep it going today. In this show, Oli plays a selection of tunes raging from melodic indie to straight edge hardcore. Definitely tune in if skateboarding and stage-diving used to, or still do, feature high on your agenda.
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12 midnight - 1:30am As an American coming of age in the 50s and 60s Bill Skelton's musical "influences" tracked with the development of Rock, R&B and contemporary Jazz. The popularity of Folk during the late 50s drove an interest in the roots of "American" music and lead into a life long interaction with Jazz and its roots and derivatives. 'Round Midnight' explores the ongoing development of Jazz. Bill's play lists frequently cross over to these related genres and pull together a mix of influences showcasing related instrumentation and styles that Bill pulls under the Jazz umbrella.
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7 - 10am
The Dog's Breakfast team serves up variety with verve, sacred with profane, highbrow with hoonish. The result is satisfying and delicious..
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10 - 10:10am Tune in for sampling of local and international musicians who are performing or have played, at Lyttelton's premier concert venue, the Harbourlight Theatre. |
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10:10 - 10:30am
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11:00 - 12 noon Join the proprietor of one of Christchurchs finer live music venues, Al's Bar, for a weekly look at an album that may have slipped by without registering on your richter scale. |
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12 noon - 1:30pm
1:30 - 3:30pm A weekly dose of indie, alternative, and hardcore with the occasional cheesy love anthem for good measure.
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3:30 - 4:30pm
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5 - 7pm This show features a songwriter showcase, a half hour in depth look at one of the world's greatest songwriters. from Tom Waits to Bob Dylan, Don McGlashan to Ryan Adams..
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7- 9pm Paul's been an obssessive record collector for years, amassing a collection of over 20,000 pieces of vinyl! On Reverse Quota you will hear everything from Human Instinct to The Clean, as well as some rare tracks never before heard on radio..
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9pm - 11 midnight A mix mash of different musical genres, eras, cultures, movements and formats. Join Ben on a journey from rockabilly to german avant-garde, hiphop to gypsy swing, Volcano Eclectica has a bit of everything..
11pm - midnight
weekly Frank Zappa fix... are you up for it? Of course you are.....oooh yeeeeeah,
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7 - 10am
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Volcan Radio's resident housewife brings an eclectic music mix with a smattering of observational humour, sometimes useful household advice and news of local happenings.
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12noon - 12:10pm Tune in for sampling of local and international musicians who are performing or have played, at Lyttelton's premier concert venue, the Harbourlight Theatre.
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12:10 - 12:30pm
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2 - 3:30pm
Join James as he links a number of varied tunes from his collection with interesting facts and fascinating trivia, from old to new, local to international, it's one interesting and informative hour and a half..
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3:30 - 4pm
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4 - 5:30pm Representing your local caffiene distillary James & Stephen the Lords of Bean Town along with assorted Lyttelton Coffee Company serfs, serve up a full extraction of music, culture, commentary and general jibber jabber.
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With music ranging all over the place,depending on whatever takes Craig's fancy, and also starring the ineffable Kate every other week, mixing in a bit of chaos and discussion, the Bombs Away show is one you can't miss..
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Waxed on Wednesdays is an all vinyl show. Keeping it local playing all NZ music, post 1995. Featuring a vinyl of the week and the odd interview. All styles and most sounds. Come get your wax on with your host Cafedre.
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8 - 10pm If you like an eclectic global selection and you like it with an edge, tune in for a musical adventure..
Join Lizzy and friends as the attempt a musical yogic bounce from exquisite melancholy to unfettered joy.
Electronic grooves, ancient and modern, cheeky and serious, sometimes on theme for the week, but always delicious and nutritious!
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11:30pm - 12midnight
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Join the twins for an Irish look at the begining of the end of your week. It's bound to be a bit of a giggle...to be sure, to be sure!
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Musically, where have you been on your 1st XV? Fifteen compositions that have been pivotal to you during your life.. Music that evokes the memories, the tales, the nostalgia.. A surprising and heartwarming two hour journey. |
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12:30 - 12:40pm Tune in for sampling of local and international musicians who are performing or have played, at Lyttelton's premier concert venue, the Harbourlight Theatre.
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12:40 - 1:30pm A new album of the week featured every week!
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A muical mash up sliding you through the siesta times with the indominable Sassafras. Tunes from here, tunes from there, tunes from almost everywhere.
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3 - 5pm Borrowing the title of a brilliant song by the Mountain Goats, Pale Green Things is a show which defies description and categorization! Playing everything from Ulrich Heep to Squarepusher, your hosts seek to enlighten and amaze with their expansive and eclectic collection of comtemporary music..
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5 - 7pm Dr. Captain's radio show, which even though intended to be simple pop music, invariably bends to the strange and uniquely intriguing, a transcendently eclectic adventure through any and all genre and peppered with band/performer interviews and stunning live-to-airs.
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Ez Az Irie Soundz brings you two hours of high-grade reggae and roots. A unique mix of irie dub, dancehall, homegrown talent and the latest releases..
Sponsored by Wunderbar
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9 - 10:30pm The Swan Show is named in tribute to Sam Swan, who sang with the group '? Fog' during the mid 80's. One of the only three songs she recorded is played at the end of each show.. Roz features music from the past and present decades, playing anything that takes her interest, with tendencies towards alternative garage punk.. |
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10:30pm - 12 midnight This is your weekly fix of hard-hitting edgy rock with the odd quirky surprise thrown in. From old to new, Andrioids to Rob Zombie, if you like alt rock then this is your sound thrashing!
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| 7 - 10am Champagne Breakfast with Si, Nick, Claire and Noah It's a family affair with Nick, Claire and their wee man Noah. It's full of local giveaways,
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10 - 11am Sacha keeps you up date with who's playing where and when, as well as a look into the musicians' backgrounds and their music.
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11 - 12noon Roz returns to bring you an eclectic mix of music rarely heard..
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12 noon - 12.30pm
Talented Film guru Kate McRae mixes commentary, music and exerps from a selection of great films, new releases as well as classics from time past, all available at your local Lyttelton Video Ezy. |
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12.30 -2.30pm Rob brings you soul inflicted tunes from yesteryear to the present. Its not always soul music per se, I play tunes from many genres, Reggae, Soul/Funk, Dub, Dubstep all the way to Nick Cave and back. A kind of licorice allsorts drenched in SOUL!
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2:30 - 2.40pm
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2.40 - 4pm A collection of breaks, funk and hip hop to ease you into your Friday evening and get you prepared for the weekend! Smooth tunes you can sit back to, put your feet up and relax.
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4 - 6pm Get you Friday groove on with Mother Love!
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6 - 8pm Regular Simon G Plays Soul Funk Gems From past to present blending through to Soulfull Funky House that reflects these styles..... Always finding a groove that will help you warm up your weekend with a boogie. Brought to you by the one and only Monster Bar.
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8 - 10pm Simon G continues every second Friday, with DJ mix shows under his Deep South Audio name, where he delves deep in to the realms of deep house, techno, electro and all good things electronica ... tunes from the cutting edge of today’s dance scene .. and deep techy journeys
Subliminal
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10pm - 12midnight The Minnesota Mix is an eclectic collection of downbeats, upswings, misdirected rythms and alien injected melodies..
The minimal show features music downloaded fresh every week mixed live right here in the studio by a couple of local minimalheads.
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12 midnight - 1:30am RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Biggie, TuPac and more. The best hiphop from the 90s and beyond..
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7 - 9am Two humans: Ringmaster A Puff'n'Stuff and Mr Mellow are joined by their non-human friends Mouse and his ragdoll sidekick Sidgeworth, for mischief, mayhem and musical madness, songs, stories and special guests...YEAH!
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9 - 11am
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11 - 11:50am
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11:50am - 12 noon
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12 noon - 2pm Hosts Don "D" and Justine "J" share a genre of retro-alternative-new wave-ska-punk-electronica-industrial-ambient-gothic-kiwi-indie-pop/rock for the big people, with informal 'Public Service Announcements' of local family events for the little people.. |
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2 - 5pm Here at Volcano we host many live to air performances. These can happen at different times during the week, but the majority of them are on Saturday afternoons. There’s a candy-sweet mixture of unique bands and musicians coming up to tempt your taste..err..earbuds. So far we’ve been lucky enough to have an amazing range of talented artists coming through. And they just keep on coming! |
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6 - 7pm Rock'n'Roll Britannia is exactly like it sounds. From classic rock to punk, through to the latest up and coming Brit bands...you will catch some of it all.
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7 - 9pm Two ex-pat Englanders bringing on your Saturday night, or morning depending on where you're listening, with a bang (err) A most eclectic mix of music in this aptly titled show.
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9pm - 12 midnight every third Saturday Drawing on a months love, confusion, elation and hysteria of raising a new little Lyttelton person. Our monthly evening out at Volcano FM may or may not include ska, Jungle, Old skool, Reggae, Folk, Psychedelia, Blues and many indefinable musics in between.
9.00 - 11.00pm first Saturday of the month The Monthly Double Glazed Sessions. Uncle Chosey and Cafedre bring you an hour of guitar based music followed by an hour of electronic tunes Saturday night styles. All laced with a little Lyttelton love!
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7 - 9amLyttelEase Childrens' Breakfast Radio with Mr. Mellow, A Puff 'n' Stuff, Mouse and Sidgeworth Two humans; ringmaster A Puff'n'Stuff and Mr. Mellow, are joined by their magical non-human pal Mouse and his ragdoll sidekick Sidgeworth, for mischief, mayhem and musical madness, songs, stories, and special guests... YEAH! |
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9 - 9:30am Join Candice and Phoebe each Sunday morning when they pop up for half an hour and play their favourite tunes as well as requests from their school mates. Also see how their netball team has fared in the last week... nooiice!
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Lyttelton resident Joseph Burston talks to you about what's going on in your environmental backyard. Featuring documentaries and interviews on local and global environmental issues plus a regular round up of news and developments. |
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Bill's playlist crosses over many related genres and pulls together a mix of influences, instrumentation, and styles that can be defined by the label of Jazz. |
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If you're a fan of classical music, you're in for a real treat! |
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2 - 3pm
3 - 4 pm The Drift click for detail "I like to drift and meander through a few genres of music, stick them together and see how they fit." Rock, folk, pop. Archive. 20th century classical music. Real and fake ethnic music. Edgy jazz. Film soundtrack. Spoken word. Arty/party stuff.
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Enjoy a diverse selection of music gems from around the globe. Tune in at home on the wireless, stream live from the website, or take advantage of the special prices during the show and bathe in the sun on the deck at Freeman's. Something to get you into that Sunday arvo mood! |
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8 - 10pm Evening exercise for the grey matter under your occipital. A galaxy of experimental and cutting edge sounds take you on a Sunday evening journey through the known and unknown hemispheres. |
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10 - 12 midnight |
What would be on now?
18:00 - 20:00
Repertoire with Jo
20:00 - 22:00
Borderline Radio Collective with Jo, Rory & Bruce
22:00 - 00:00
A Sides for Betaville with Tongs Akimbo
Theme Of The Week

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