Daily English Show #11 – Wellington To Blenheim (Video)
December 25, 2011 – 7:13 am | 29 Comments

The Daily English Show, an occasional video series, has hit the road traveling through New Zealand in a United Campervan. Today they travel to the beehive (Parliament), Lyall Bay (check out Maranui Cafe review) then …

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Murray From Flight of the Conchords in Pirate Movie (Video)

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Our kiwi friend Rhy Darby AKA Murray from Flight of the Conchords stars with Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Boat That Rocked.

It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that was determined to control the air waves. Like a lot of countries (including New Zealand, remember Radio Hauraki), the laws about broadcasting were strictly controlled by licenses, mostly public owned systems.  It took a small band of music lovers, and a mobile transmitter station, preferably 3 miles off the coast to keep the music alive.

Radio Hauraki officially started broadcasting on December 4, 1966 on board the Tiri off the coast of NZ. During the next 2 years, the crew on the Tiri would endure adverse weather conditions, fatigue, and continued efforts to shut down the station. In mid-1970, the state monopoly on radio frequencies was broken,and Radio Hauraki became the first private station to broadcast.  I am just old enough to remember listening to them.

Anyway here is the trailer:


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