Interview

TUKI Festival - Glendhu Bay, Wanaka

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What a blast! 
Thanks TUKI Festival for having us along to film + interview an outstanding line-up. From treasured personal favourites like The Phoenix Foundation + UMO to new encounters such as Aaradhna, Marlon Williams, Lips, Maala and more, TUKI festival delivered great set after great set.  We filmed a portion of each set and then interviewed the artists about their upcoming year in music, their experience of TUKI + then threw in a few curveball queries...  

The TUKI crew were welcoming + so hospitable.  Much aroha to the organisers, Lake Wanaka SouNZ.  Profits made from the festival go directly back into future events and the Wanaka community.  Since the first festival put together by the non-profit group in 1998, more than $118,000 has been put back into supporting music, youth, and the environment within the region.

It was also our son Theo's first festival - and he not only survived it like a champ, he seemed to really get into it!  And of course, last but not least, thanks to Aerial Vision for coming aboard to film and capture some drone footage! It's always great to work alongside this duo.

#tukifestival #lovelivemusic 

Marlon Williams charming the crowd with a fantastic band backing him. This set was the start of a 60 shows for Marlon.

Marlon Williams charming the crowd with a fantastic band backing him. This set was the start of a 60 shows for Marlon.

Interviewing these babes Anika Moa + Mel Parsons - what a blast. 

 Anthonie Tonnon at the mic's helm after his Forest stage set

Theo! Our little man on high watching Marlon Williams' set. His first festival of many.

Theo! Our little man on high watching Marlon Williams' set. His first festival of many.

UMO - Unknown Mortal Orchestra were phenomenal.

Theo's first festival! That's right, our little man was there for the festivities and was a champion. 

Sound crew at The Forest Stage

TUKI! We loved being a part of the festival - all the crew were efficient + onto it, and it felt stress free.  

Barnaby Weir talks "Better Days"

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We had a chat to Barnaby Weir talking about The Black Seeds fresh single "Better Days". Check out this audio + visual preview snippet of good things to come, and some sweet animated graphics courtesy of The Makers Initiative.
Happy Friyay! 
#theblackseeds #betterdays #new #single

Life Hack Social Lab - Sovereign Social Innovation with Youthline

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A re-gram from Kelly Spencer - incredi-doodling en route to the Youthline social lab in AKL.

A re-gram from Kelly Spencer - incredi-doodling en route to the Youthline social lab in AKL.

New lapel mics! Squeee.

New lapel mics! Squeee.

Mark's interview style - double-barrelled line of questioning.

Mark's interview style - double-barrelled line of questioning.

Sophi and Rebeka chatting about some of the ideas generated at the Youthline event.

Sophi and Rebeka chatting about some of the ideas generated at the Youthline event.

We hopped aboard an exciting Life Hack + Sovereign Insurance social lab exploring volunteer recruitment and retention for Youthline.  The event bought together the dedicated team at Youthline, a group of varied experienced professionals from Sovereign Insurance, and social lab hosts, Life Hack.  Sovereign and Youthline have been partnered for four years, with Sovereign dedicated to supporting Youthline's programmes reaching South Auckland communities.  

We filmed and interviewed participants during the two-day event and are putting together a video of interviews and the general hubbub, laughter and ideas that unfolded.  We were stoked to be working alongside Life Hack once again, and were able to catch up with our League of Live Illustrators comrades.  For this lab, The League were represented by illustrator extraordinaires Kelly Spencer and Rebeka Whale.   We also got to utilise our new Rode lapel mics - dang they're good.