Amplified – Dave Stewart’s Weekly Podcast – Episode 2

In this episode we talk with Stewart MacPherson who hosted the first music show on New Zealand television in 1962 and still promotes shows 52 years later. . . . → Read More: Amplified – Dave Stewart’s Weekly Podcast – Episode 2

Amplified – Dave Stewart’s Weekly Podcast – Episode 1

Dave outlines what his new radio show on Community Connect is all about . . . → Read More: Amplified – Dave Stewart’s Weekly Podcast – Episode 1

Tīpuna

tīpuna

1. (noun) ancestors, grandparents – plural form of tipuna and the eastern dialect variation of tūpuna.

One of the coolest things about what I’m doing right now is the connection I feel to my father and his father.

My grandfather was born in Glasgow and came to New Zealand as a bonded electrician. His . . . → Read More: Tīpuna

Meet Anne and Phillip of Waikaretu

Anne and Phillip lived 5 kms down the road. To give you an idea of what that meant, if I walked to their farm I passed 4 other houses. In those first couple of years I went there a lot. They looked after me. They rescued me. . . . → Read More: Meet Anne and Phillip of Waikaretu

Website Re-Launched Mother’s Day, 2013

Exposures Online broke a lot of new ground, providing race day photofinishes and videos to the Interweb where none had been available before. Stewart also used the website to blog before blogging was a word and wrote stories of things that ‘wound his clock’, mainly music, politics and everything else. . . . → Read More: Website Re-Launched Mother’s Day, 2013

Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art

Dave Stewart’s been breaking the rules since he was a teenage punk rocker – waxing his hair bright yellow long before gel became de rigueur. You won’t find the Aucklander prancing around the stage any more with New Zealand’s first punk rock band Anti Music, but he’s still banging the keyboards. Only today, he does it from the confines of his ten by eight spare room, and the keyboards, while silent, are helping him make a noise all around the world. Stewart’s instrument of choice is the computer, four of them to be exact, and bit by byte he’s establishing himself as one of it’s leading exponents. . . . → Read More: Ex-punk makes surfing on turf an art