Kirsten in the studio bringing some old favourite tunes and new releases. With guests The DeSotos playing a couple of tunes live. 

All over the place as usual with blasts from the past as well as brand new tunes, getting stuck in the blues hole and a few tunes for the country fundamentalists.

Deputy Louis spinning tunes.

Deputy Louis in the house playing songs about bands all night. Lots of calls lots of requests lots of good times. 

Father's Day Special. Dad songs, one way or another. Good dads. Bad dads. Storytelling dads. And a live performance from Hoop in honour of the Ministry of Folks upcoming Neil Young tribute night. Neil's pretty 'dad' too.

Father's Day Special. Dad songs, one way or another. Good dads. Bad dads. Storytelling dads. And a live performance from Hoop in honour of the Ministry of Folks upcoming Neil Young tribute night. Neil's pretty 'dad' too.

Border Radio with Louis Jarlov. Lots of tunes I love tonight and a very special live performance from the College Hill Hillbillies. Get on it! 

Border Radio with Louis Jarlov. Lots of tunes I love tonight and a very special live performance from the College Hill Hillbillies. Get on it! 

Mixed bag of a few classics, brand new stuff and something that I thought was gonna be cool but ended up being actually bloody awful. But hey, you might like it and Grief Cat is still a cool name for a band. Couple of serato/dust/needle mishaps to keep us honest in there as well. Radio. Live with humans and equipment.

Mixed bag of a few classics, brand new stuff and something that I thought was gonna be cool but ended up being actually bloody awful. But hey, you might like it and Grief Cat is still a cool name for a band. Couple of serato/dust/needle mishaps to keep us honest in there as well. Radio. Live with humans and equipment.

Kirsten's in the studio, she loved Appalachian Nightmare by Justin Townes Earle and Please Come On Inside by Madeleine Peyroux.

Kirsten's in the studio, she loved Appalachian Nightmare by Justin Townes Earle and Please Come On Inside by Madeleine Peyroux.

Absolute chaos when the serato/turntable/laptop shits itself - but tons of great music.

Absolute chaos when the serato/turntable/laptop shits itself - but tons of great music.

4th July birthday special. (Mine) Lots of classic tracks and a bunch of brand new ones. Ever deeper into the young musicians of the Virginia Mountains rabbit hole, and lovely new Sarah Shook and the Disarmers.

4th July birthday special. (Mine) Lots of classic tracks and a bunch of brand new ones. Ever deeper into the young musicians of the Virginia Mountains rabbit hole, and lovely new Sarah Shook and the Disarmers.

Kirsten in the studio with some old blues, new blues, new folk and country. Loved The Devil Makes Three "Old Number Seven".

Kirsten in the studio with some old blues, new blues, new folk and country. Loved The Devil Makes Three "Old Number Seven".

Playing truck driving songs all night. Lots of requests lots of bangers. 

Playing truck driving songs all night. Lots of requests lots of bangers. 

Some great music on the show, and Kirsten fielded some requests.

Some great music on the show, and Kirsten fielded some requests.

All sorts; all of side four from CSNY's 4 Way Street, Queens of the Stoneage doing Bob Dylan, Skynyrd, Emmylou, Townes, Mel, Reb and tons more.

All sorts; all of side four from CSNY's 4 Way Street, Queens of the Stoneage doing Bob Dylan, Skynyrd, Emmylou, Townes, Mel, Reb and tons more.

New Zealand Music Month and Kirsten is serving a selection of tasty Kiwi tunes.

Had a go at making the show as pretty as I could, influenced by Amelia Empson's gorgeous song 'Closer'. She's my new favorite thing. Strayed off the track a bit in a couple of places, James McMurtry ain't that purdy, Jason Molina is just plain dark, but mainly true to sweeter sounds of the American persuasion.

Kirsten is joined by regular listeners Marcella and Meredith playing some of their favourite songs. It's strongly a women's night and black women in country.

Otis Mace comes up and bangs out a few tunes and after something like 15 years, I finally play Seven Spanish Angels.

Deputy Kirsten's in the studio with some classic blues, lots of bluegrass, new country and folk.

Some brand new tunes (Amigo the Devil) and some real oldies (Bob & Jimi). An exciting Wednesday cover of Drive By Truckers, more from Colby T Helms and a few strangers wander on into town as well as plenty of our familiar friends and aquaintances who are hanging out in the saloon. And that gorgeous Mel Parsons song that's doing the rounds all over playlist as well.

Easter Sunday and I have rolled out all the Easter goodies, like rolling the rock from the tomb.

With Kiwi artists Delaney Davidson, Mel Parsons, Ebony Lamb, Erny Belle, Tiny Ruins.

The great Ryan Adams redemption show. Gave him a shot after a chance encounter with a listener at a party in West Auckland. Played two songs. Still don't like him. Like MJ Lenderman though, so played him and like the track listing on my new shiny record of Neil Young and Crazy Horse 'Dume' - a repackage with exciting bonus tracks of Zuma from 1975, so played a version of Powderfinger you won't have heard. Played the Beyonce country song too - and liked that. Like the new Hurrah for the Riff Raff too. But Ryan's back in the naughty corner for eternity. I tried.

Kirsten's in the studio

Neil and James and the old pals like Dwight and Townes as well as new buddies, Sammy & Colby, also, popping a listeners Drive By Truckers cherry by special request. He dug it.  

Thanks for Richard Laing for suggestions for the great women artists.

Old. New. Medium. Etc.

First time back in teh saddle for a bit - some classic oldies, like On The Beach, but also a bunch of fresh as brand new tunes from upcoming albums by Waxahatchee, ISMAY, the quite awesome Chatham County Line, Sarah Jarosz and more. Also, a few tracks off Calexico's Feast of Wire to get you a long to the show in a couple of weeks.  

First show with new Deputy Louis Jarlov behind the desk solo.

Deputies Kirsten and Louis in the studio.

Three deputies in the studio.

Kirsten with guest Angela Griffen playing music for Bernard Griffen.

More CD Roulette ! Crash ! Burn ! A show featuring only songs with the word Love in the title, just for amusement and 'cos we always need some love.

Lots of new releases.

Start the show with catastrophic CD failure, but still grabbed the Be Good Tanyas out of the 95bFM CD library and faced the fear.

New releases mostly from this year, my picks are "Drink From the Well" The Lowlies, "It All Falls Down To the River" Suzy Bogguss, "Coyote" Dylan LeBlanc. And the messianic "Stardust" David Borne there's an accent on the 'e'. Hear new music and enjoy.

Texter: "I love you. Mistakes like that are the best thing about radio". You be the judge.

Congratulations to the Sheriff Bernie Griffen for his Outstanding Contribution Award to bFM at the Student Radio Network Awards.

Felt like a goodie.

Swerving all over the place. Oldies and goodies. 

Border Radio with Kirsten. Lost highways, cowboys, cowgirls, drinking and the blues. Perfect

Blues it is!

Hoony show with dave and Marcus up from Magic Factory.

Popular with the texters tonight. Must have been that old Randy Travis tune. Or Metallica covering Skynyrd.

"Sweetheart" by Steve Abel is a standout. Bernie Griffen had it in his head in his last week. Along with his own song "Drowning".

New Willy Tea Taylor track, brand newly discovered Olivia Ellen Lloyd, dredging up some BoDeans after hearing it on the soundtrack to The Bear, Magic Factory, Skynyrd and discovering that 'Someday' off Neil Young's Freedom is actually a pretty shit song. Sounds better in my head than on the radio. Townes and Drive By Truckers make up for it though and a killer, KILLER version of Carmelita by Jason Molina.

Back in the saddle after losing the sheriff. Kirsten plays Bernie's music and the playlist from the celebration of Bernie's life, it was a huge event. 

A show in honour of a great friend of music and a great friend of ours. Rest Easy Bernie. 

Got some blues for ya, some great local tunes off the system and handful from the 95bFM vinyl library. Very pleased with how the 'no power to the laptop' situation was handled and discovered perhaps the worst thing joe strummer ever did. you be the judge.

I let Sinead's passing have an effect on the show cos it affected me and I thought it'd sound good. Loretta Lynn, Joan Baez, Hurray for The Riff Raff, Dylan, Eilen Jewel, Allison Russel, Drive by Truckers and more all telling it like it is. Interview with Julian Temple and a bunch of finds out of the bFM vinyl library (Bodeans from the 1980's!) in between and then a strong finish for Ms O'Connor with the Dropkick Murphies and the song Kris Kristofferson wrote for her. What a loss.

Starts loud. Set list attached.

Letting the new Magic Factory album weave it's influence over the show. 

Back to the future........... L:ove you Janet

NZ Music Month Special. Old, very old, new, quite new and a couple so new they were played live in the studio.

A mix including Aldous Harding , The Grateful Dead and much more. Dig in to a rich feast!

Compelling listening! Vince says!

A diverse selection of tunes. Or inconsistent  - you be the judge.

Happy Egg Day Folks. The Bunny is on the loose ! No ad show , 32 songs played. Get into it....!

Many beautiful songs.

Unbelievable tension!!!!!!!

Brand new. Old. Really old. And even older. Marty Robbins to the Violent Femmes to Annabel Chairlegs and Sunny War.  

Ghost Riders in the sky!!!!!

This show was dedicated to everybody who was hurt by the floods and storms of recent weeks. 

New songs from Sunny War and The Deslondes, a few old faves and a chat with Mark from The Loving Arms.

Kirsten has John Smith with her tonight. He's ex Real Groovy now living in the Blue Mountains in NSW...... It'll be a ripper!

Celebrating the release of Adam McGrath's solo album, Dear Companions. Tracks from that, The Eastern back catologue, Adams mates and heroes and influences and stuff I thought he might like and a rambling chat with the man. Also, Upper Hutt Posse on the Border Radio Show - tick.

Songs about floods , water and inundation.......