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ONE WEEK - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranak...
04/10/2025

ONE WEEK - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
As we enter the final week of voting in the local body elections, we present a show of songs that count down from one week to one day. Featuring tracks from Ba*****ed Ladies, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Blue Rodeo, Buffalo Springfield, k d lang & The Reclines, Fur Patrol, The Front Lawn, Joan Armatrading, Bryan Ferry, Opshop, Kirsty MacColl, Aimee Mann and Netherworld Dancing Toys.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Daylight Saving Time, 13 hours ahead of GMT. US: 9pm Saturday night West Coast, midnight Saturday East Coast. UK: 5am Sunday. Australia: 2pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 8am Sunday. Kuwait: 7am Sunday.

DAN THE MAN - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Tara...
26/09/2025

DAN THE MAN - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
This week the world lost one of the greatest double bass players of all time, Danny Thompson. Across his 60-year career, he played on countless recordings by a wide spectrum of artists. The show will feature 13 tracks by John Martyn, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Kate Bush, David Sylvian, Linda Lewis, Tim Buckley, The Blind Boys of Alabama, ABC, Everything But The Girl, Christine Collister, Richard Thompson (no relation) and Pentangle.
NZ LISTENERS: DAYLIGHT SAVING BEGINS AT 2AM SUNDAY. PUT YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD!
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Daylight Saving Time, 13 hours ahead of GMT. US: 9pm Saturday night West Coast, midnight Saturday East Coast. UK: 5am Sunday. Australia: 2pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 8am Sunday. Kuwait: 7am Sunday.

SO LONG, SUNDANCE - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM i...
20/09/2025

SO LONG, SUNDANCE - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
This week’s show marks the passing of Robert Redford with songs that reference, represent or, in a couple of cases, even appear in, some of the many films in his long career. With tracks from Patti Smith, Robin Trower, Harry Connick Jr, Crowded House, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Marvin Hamlisch, The Amazing, The Jetset, BJ Thomas, Sally Ford & The Pachuco Playboys, Bruce Cockburn, Elton John and Steely Dan.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
“You just keep thinkin’, Butch. That’s what you’re good at.”

JUST VOTE! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taran...
13/09/2025

JUST VOTE! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
With local body elections underway, people will be voting based on where candidates stand on many issues. Without taking sides, but hoping to increase voter turnout, this show will feature songs representing 13 of those issues – water, roads, homelessness, climate change, cycling, sport, the arts, money, cutting services, Māori wards, libraries, museums, and the elderly. With songs from Marlon Williams, 10cc, The Flying Lizards, Pink Floyd, Julian Temple Band, Dream Academy, Ladi6, Bonzo Dog Band, Katchafire, Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Donovan, Graham Parker, and John Hiatt.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.

DADDY ISSUES - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Tar...
05/09/2025

DADDY ISSUES - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
In honour of Father’s Day, this week’s show features artists with famous fathers. There will be songs by the offspring of everyone in this photo-montage. One of them even gets two kids in, due to his son duetting with the daughter of another famous father. Tracks by Lexi Jones, Liam Finn, Rosanne Cash, Fistful of Mercy, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Harper Simon, Kirsty MacColl, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Zoë Kravitz, Teddy Thompson, Norah Jones & Rufus Wainwright, Jakob Dylan, and Nancy Sinatra.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
Those damn Roches!

ALRIGHT, ALREADY! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM i...
30/08/2025

ALRIGHT, ALREADY! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
Apparently, in almost 16 years of presenting this show, I’ve never done the theme of feeling alright (or not). Alright, then, here goes. Expect tracks from The Mojos, Lucinda Williams, Tadpole, Stevie Wonder, Madeleine Peyroux, The Impressions, Loudon Wainwright III, Carly Binding, The Police, Marlin’s Dreaming, Lindisfarne, Eurythmics, Yvonne Elliman & Ted Neeley, and The Waifs.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
If it's alright with you...

MYSTERY CONNECTION - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM ...
23/08/2025

MYSTERY CONNECTION - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
You can thank my wife Sue for this week’s theme. But I’m not going to tell you what it is. Something connects all the songs in the show but it’s so obscure that I’ll hold off revealing it until just before the final song – unless someone guesses first. Featuring tracks from The Psychedelic Furs, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians, Anthonie Tonnon, John Lennon, Look Blue Go Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Lucinda Williams, Crowded House, Lyle Lovett, Cowboy Junkies, Crosby Stills & Nash, Brandy Clark, and Snowy White.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.

TOWN & COUNTRY - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in T...
09/08/2025

TOWN & COUNTRY - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
This week’s theme came about after two of the featured songs turned up consecutively in the shuffled playlist in my car – one about leaving country life to go and work in the city, and one about leaving the city to go back to the country. I have to say, it appears there are way more songs out there about the latter than the former. Anyhow, expect to hear The Rockingbirds, Meredith Brooks, John Martyn, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Wishbone Ash, Pretenders, Eddie & The Hot Rods, The Little Wi***es, Aztec Camera, Sheryl Crow, Lindisfarne and Tracy Chapman.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
You can get there by bus…

IN OTHER NEWS… - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in T...
02/08/2025

IN OTHER NEWS… - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
What with one thing and another, I thought I’d address all things to do with otherness on this week’s show. With tracks from Gene Clark, Breaks Co-Op, Nina Simone, Ian Hunter, Belle & Sebastian, Janis Ian, Greg Johnson, Tift Merritt, DD Smash, Alan Hull, Moorcheeba, Del Amitri and Sam Cooke.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
And another thing…

DUM-DE-DUM - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taran...
26/07/2025

DUM-DE-DUM - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
Inspired by the current global trend of dumbing down, this show will be dum and dummer as we choose songs with “dum” in them. Featuring tracks from The Chills, Genesis, Dream Academy, The Roches, Roy Orbison, Iggy Pop, Manfred Mann, Otis Redding, Bridget & Dahlia, Talk Talk, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, The Idle Race, Bob Dylan, and The Lemon Twigs.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.

DISAPPEARING ACT - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in...
19/07/2025

DISAPPEARING ACT - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
Inspired by the sudden disappearance of the Epstein files, which were on Pam Bondi’s desk back in February but now not only don’t exist but were written by Obama, we present a show on things that vanish, disappear, are lost or don’t really exist, or if they do, we’ll deny it. Featuring tracks by Ron Sexsmith, The Dukes of Stratosphear, Aimee Mann, Split Enz, Christine Collister, The Immediate Family, Mazzy Star, Donovan, Lee-Ann Womack, The Frank Burkitt Band, Steely Dan, Amber Rubarth, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, and Meat Puppets.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.
If anyone asks, you didn’t see this…

STOP! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, ...
12/07/2025

STOP! - Sunday at 5pm on What’s It All About, Andy? Brought to you by Pianoworks. Only on The Most 100.4FM in Taranaki, 107.4FM in Ōakura, and streaming live at www.mostfm.com
This week’s show could apply to any number of things right now - the weather here in Taranaki, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the fascist coup in the USA, the systematic undoing of 50 years of social and ecological progress here in Aotearoa. Be sure to stop and listen to songs about stopping by Errol Dunkley, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Nick Lowe, Jerry Garcia Band, Bob Dylan, Susanne Sundfør, The Hollies, The Free Design, Toni Childs, Arctic Monkeys, The Supremes, Crowded House, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Listeners outside of NZ please note: time given is NZ Standard Time, 12 hours ahead of GMT. US: 10pm Saturday night West Coast, 1am Sunday East Coast. UK: 6am Sunday. Australia: 3pm Sunday Brisbane. Dubai: 9am Sunday. Kuwait: 8am Sunday.

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