Blair Parkes
New Brighton's Blair Parkes on forty years of songwriting
Christchurch musician Blair Parkes has had a long and storied career, even if he's not a household name. His first two bands All Fall Down and The Letter 5 were signed to Flying Nun in the late… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies
We'll hear two tracks today from a new classic funk compilation on French label, Wagram, followed by a new song from New Brighton shoe-gazer Blair Parkes and a dusty sound-system classic from Jamaican… Audio
Kiwi Rules with Blair Parkes
Blair Parkes from New Brighton, Ōtautahi/Christchurch, is Karyn's guest on Kiwi Rules tonight and he's chosen a fistful of local tracks, old and new, to play - including one off his new album over… Audio
NZ Live: Blair Parkes
New Brighton based Blair Parkes is in the Christchurch studio for NZ Live today. The multi-talented Cantabrian shares some tracks from his latest and fifth album, Liveable City. Audio
Music - Betty Davis, Steven Ellison & Blair Parkes
Music reviewer Grant Smithies says - epic and overwhelming, Steven "Flying Lotus" Ellison's sixth album Flamagra is quite a trip, but it's well worth coughing up for a ticket and climbing aboard… Audio
Music reviewer Grant Smithies
Grant Smithies is smitten with the hazy, shoegazey sound of New Brighton musician Blair Parkes' new record, Saturations. We also hear dusty classics from recently reformed Dunedin band Sneaky Feelings… Audio
The Sampler for 16 August
In The Sampler this week Nick Bollinger mulls over the jazz-African-electronic hybrid of London-based band Melt Yourself Down; ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes; and… Audio
The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes
Nick Bollinger ponders the jangling pop of The Prophet Hens and Blair Parkes. Audio