Te Korokoro O Te Tūī

15/05/2025

We are 1 day away from our next Live from Te Korokoro session!!!!!

This one’s going to be goodie—featuring and with her band.

Hop onto our livestream this Friday at 7pm on our YouTube channel (link in bio) or tune into Radio One 91FM!

29/04/2025

If you’re interested in copyright and intellectual property, especially as it pertains to music, this one is for you.

11/04/2025

Check out the first Live from The Korokoro event, featuring Purple Dog and Koizilla. We had a blast putting this together. Time to start work on the next one :)

Welcome to the first episode of Live from Te Korokoro, a series of live-streamed concerts featuring some of Ōtepoti Dunedin's best musical acts, coming to yo...

10/04/2025

Kia ora everyone! We’re super excited to launch our newest project, Live from Te Korokoro – an electrifying celebration of local musicians, filmed and streamed live on our YouTube channel, and broadcast live on air by the awesome team at .

To kick our first one off, we’re stoked to welcome and to the studio!

Don’t miss out – tune into our livestream or 91.0 FM at 7 pm on Friday, April 11th, to catch these incredible bands live. You won’t regret it!🔥🤘

20/03/2025

It was amazing having IVY and the DYO in the studio to rehearse for their Arts Festival show next week.

05/02/2025

We are stoked to announce that all of our 2025 songwriting competitions are officially open. If you've got a song in your heart we would LOVE to hear it! All our competitions are open to high school-aged students. That doesn't mean you have to be in high school. If you're home-schooled or attend alternative learning you can still enter Play It Strange.

We have an amazing lineup of judges this year! Chunn , Josh Fountain, Runga, CHAII, , Dianne Swann, Baker, Matt Kidd, Rebel Reid, Georgia Lines and Kings.
Check out our judges here: https://www.playitstrange.org.nz/judges

All finalists win a day in a recording studio up to the value of $800 +GST. There are awesome prizes for each of the winners of the competitions including a 1:1 mentor session with one of the competition judges, gift cards plus more prizes still to be announced.

Key Dates:
‼️All competitions are OPEN NOW‼️
🐣 Junior Songwriting Competition 2025 (Years 9-11) 🐣 - Closes 30 April -
✌️Peace Song Competition 2025✌️
- Closes 30 May -
🥝National Songwriting Competition 2025 (Years 9-13)🥝
- Closes 16 July -
🌅Waiata Māori Competition 2025🌅
- Closes 31 July -
🎨Album Art Competition 2025🎨
- Closes 31 August -

For more information and to enter click the link below:
https://www.playitstrange.org.nz/competition

23/01/2025

Check out the new single "Sing" from the amazing Molly Devine. Produced in Tūī :)

www.mollydevine.comA river through the quiet and a wilderness to uncover with my unsteady handsA bow that paints the crying and a bell that draws me in and t...

13/12/2023

Nothing quite like the real thing.

27/11/2023

So great to host David last here last week.

21/11/2023

20/11/2023

“Te Ao Marama” written by Oliver Lodge of Trinity Catholic College, recorded at Otago University Studio. Oliver's song was a finalist in our Peace Song Competition, and the vocals are sung by Anaamika Jones.

20/11/2023

NUKE!