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LIVELY UP:
NZ On Screen’s music-focused sibling, AudioCulture, has another of Gareth Shute’s remarkable timeline features. This time it’s Aotearoa reggae, from the arrival of the reggae sound in 1969 (Desmond Dekker’s Israelites reached No 7 in the singles chart that year), through the reggae pioneers of Ponsonby and Grey Lynn, Bob Marley’s landmark 1979 concert at Western Springs, and the inner-city dub experiments of the 90s through to the huge success of Salmonella Dub, Katchafire and Fat Freddy’s Drop. tinyurl.com/NZLreggae
FEEL THE HEAT:
If you were young when you saw L&P’s local talent-packed Heatwave ad in the 1980s, well, you’re not so young any more. But you can recall the old days at NZ On Screen, whose team has retrieved the award-winning commercial. Margaret Urlich, Annie Crummer, Ardijah’s Ryan and Betty-Anne Monga, Erana Clark, Peter Morgan and DD Smash drummer Peter Warren belt out a Murray Grindlay production of the Martha and the Vandellas classic. (Betty-Anne always had the best pipes.) This version of the song was even a chart hit in 1987, with the “group” named 80 in the Shade. Note a cameo from former Crocodile Fane Flaws as the factory manager. tinyurl.com/NZLHeat