Kiran Dass

This Band Could be Your Life Hosted by Kiran Dass, this lyrical session sees writers including Damien Wilkins, Brannavan Gnanalingam, Pohlen Newbery, and Claudia Jardine share personal tributes to the music and musicians that sha...

WORD Christchurch festival kicks off on Wednesday 27 August - 31 August! Have you got your tickets yet? I’m
hosting this session ‘This Band Could Be Your Life’ which is perfect for music lovers. Four writers tell us about a band/musician they love. If you’d like any festival recs, I’m here for you!

Sounds like a City of Tales character!

Was so weird, I thought it overrides it too but my phone was on silent and didn’t make the sound!

Getting into the spirit of it. Was he ok?

Far out Motty’s uncle!

Black Sabbath on my grandfather’s farm at the 1973 Great Ngāruawāhia Music Festival in New Zealand. I remember my dad telling me a crack up story about how they burned a massive cross at midnight which shocked the locals but when you saw it up close it was really homemade and dungy.
📸 David Stone

Playing Favourites with Kiran Dass Literary festival director and music aficionado Kiran Dass plays some favourite tunes and shares what it's like running WORD Christchurch.

A real joy to join the divine Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes on Radio NZ's Saturday Morning show for Playing Favourites where I selected & chatted about 7 of my favourite songs and talked about WORD Christchurch 2025 and my life in books and music. What 7 songs, though? Listen to find out!

Joy!

Aw yes! So dreamy! Thank you for listening! 💜

Saturday Morning Presented by Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes. In-depth feature interviews, current affairs and news across a broad range of topics on RNZ National and online.

WORD Christchurch programme director extraordinaire Kiran Dass @steelydass.bsky.social is Playing Favourites on RNZ Saturday morning tomorrow 11.05am. Tune in! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Most weeks, I gaze up at the @praddenkeefe.bsky.social books on my bookshelf and think, “I wish my favourite narrative nonfiction writer had a new book coming soon…” 🙏

A measly 4/10! I bet @secondzeit.bsky.social got more than that.

We all need it! 🙌

The 2025 WORD Christchurch programme is now live and you can browse and book tickets. The theme of the festival this year is JOY!
Love this incisive roundup from @secondzeit.bsky.social at The Press.
As ever, I’m here for you to recommend sessions and books I think you’ll love.
#TheJoyOfWords

Beth & Tina! 🕶️ 💋
Julian St washing line and Grey Lynn white w(h)ine washout patio time forever ❤️

Would love to watch that!

Thank you so much for writing your beautiful book, Adelle! Beyond the inventive fragrance connection, such an evocative working class Gen X memoir of self discovery, identity! ❤️

Book review: Base Notes: The Scents of a Life by Adelle Stripe Kiran Dass reviews Base Notes: The Scents of a Life by Adelle Stripe published by Orion

"Tender, bittersweet... I loved this memoir and have never read anything quite like it."

Thanks to @steelydass.bsky.social at RNZ for her thoughtful review of Base Notes. This really made my day.

www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Have Harmonia and Cluster in the record bag, too! 💫

Popping by to play some records at Civil & Naval in Lyttelton on Sunday for a nice cosy 3-6pm moment. Will be spinning a dolly mix allsorts jumble of interesting records, do pull up for a quiet arvo pint and natter to round off the long Puanga weekend!

‘Yes, there was a riot, but it was great’: Cabaret Voltaire on violent gigs, nuclear noise – and returning to mark 50 years They made music like sonic warfare, using steamhammers for drums and annoying anyone they could. As the band return, they relive the mayhem years – and their soundtrack spinoffs, from Attenborough to ...

Sheffield Dreamin’
Need to get to Sheffield in October, somehow!

If The Shadows were brokenarsed grubby psych-noise!

@lowscore.bsky.social I might have missed it but is the cover by Index in this thread?! Cos that is unquestionably the best version of them all!

‘24/7 transgression? That would be exhausting!’ Cosey Fanni Tutti on radical art, gardening and Kneecap’s ‘power and strength’ The Throbbing Gristle musician and writer answers your questions on everything from squat life to societal outrage and the best music for striptease

Let's celebrate @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social visionary, singular icon and cover girl on the latest issue of The Wire magazine. We are so lucky to have her. I love that someone asked her about her lovely sounding garden.

Hugs, my friend.

Haha it used to annoy me when it came on Flesh & Blood but I think I’ve made peace with it now! Great thread about a great song!

‘Please tell me that is not your penis!’ New Zealand’s Shortland Street in 14 key moments Country’s longest-running soap opera marks 30 years on air this week. Here we celebrate some of its most infamous scenes

To celebrate the anniversary of the first episode of Shortland Street being aired on telly in New Zealand, let's revisit the time I not only got the word "c**t" spelled in full into the Guardian, but also a headline with the word "penis".

Lemon! I remember going to my best friend’s house in Ngāruawāhia as a kid and they had made some with seafood soup mix and I have never recovered from the thought of that!

Just about to make some! 🍋

Never forget the dream I had where my friend bought a Mr Whippy van but instead of selling ice creams he was cruising around peddling mixtapes and bootleg cassette recordings of gigs by New Zealand underground artists 🍦