Verbal Highs

87: Aaron Tokona performs as AHoriBuzz via Steve Vai from Naenae, Weta, Bongmaster, and Cairo Knife Fight. He speaks two words of truth to power: ‘wha-cup’. Aaron’s secret to a goo...

Andrea Reid is the founder of Pollinator Paths, a renewal-driven bird, insect, reptile, & urban garden-friendly trail connecting the city’s green spaces. Days into the first pathwa...

Jarret Filmer is Geoff Rissole, co-creator of Shit Towns of NZ. He and Rick Furphy are Australasia's leading experts on sociology, travel, and culture. Jarret has plans for ‘It’s i...

Jason Ford is one of NZ’s most passionate hip hop heads. He hosted NZ’s longest running hip hop radio show, The Wednesday Night Jam, from 1990 to 2006. Jason once worked for a sad ...

Peter Urlich is a musician, entertainer, & Renaissance man. He is a Dude, one ½ of Nice & Urlich, TV band manager, broadcaster & dancer with the stars. Peter once ran away from NZ ...

Julia Deans has been performing & making music for over 25 years, fronting Fur Patrol before forging a solo career alongside other performance projects. Julia ran away from jazz sc...

Stephen Gallagher is a composer & music editor. He worked closely on The Hobbit franchise, & has worked closely with Brian Eno, Nick Cave, & Ed Sheeran. ‘Blunt the Knives’, the so...

Gene Jouavel & Cian O’Donnell were part of a team who in 1999 began dispensing specialty rhythms, congregations, & nocturnal health tonics on Galatos St. 20 years on. Gene & Cian r...

Danny McCrum is a musician, entrepreneur, and co-host of podcast ‘Don’t Give up your Day Job’. His fourth album Hustle Bustle will be released shortly. Danny once provided the soun...

Nabeel Zuberi teaches & writes about music, media, film and the politics of culture. Pakistan-born, he moved from Yemen to England as a refugee in 1968.Nabeel once went to America ...

Lindsay Neill is a chef turned lecturer whose research & teaching frames food in social and cultural contexts. He has studied NZ’s most famous pie cart.Lindsay describes his decisi...

Levi Hawken is a pro skateboarder, artist, teacher, mentor, writer & landscaper, who in 2011 unwittingly ended up one of NZ’s best-known Internet memes. Levi creates things out of ...