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Monday, February 06, 2012

Photos & video from The Summer Vineyard Tour featuring Aloe Blac, Tiki Taane, Annabel Fay & the John Butler Trio

Dean, P-Honey and the Coffee Bar Kid headed over to Daisy hill farm on Sunday, 5th Feb to check out the action.  Here's a few photos of the evening:

Annabel Fay warms up the crowd


Tiki Taane puts in a great acoustic set and educates us on 'Fracking'


Aloe Blac in full flight, clearly adding his dollar's worth!

John Buttler puts on a stella performance


The CoffeeBar Kid with Tki Taane


Check out the coffeeBar Kid's video of John Butler, live at Daisy bank farm last weekend.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Interference to Groove's FM coverage - Update 2/2/12

We're sorry to advise that on-air reception of our FM signal is about 50% worse than usual at the moment and a station (One eyed FM) that has started broadcasting in Newlands is breaking in to the signal. We believe there may have been storm damage to the antenna system from the high winds over the last few weeks. It seems to be a combination of the damaged Antenna system and interference from the Newlands station.

Watch this space - In the meantime, if reception's not perfect at your place:
  • remember you can listen online via the player above or on your mobile device via the free Tunein radio app. (Sponsorship of the stream is available at $30/week - Our contact details bottom right of this page).
  • Please consider making a donation with the buttons on the right. We don't want this to be the final straw that spells the end of the only Cafe style radio station in NZ (and the last locally owned commercial radio station in Wellington).
The Groovemiester (Station Manager).

Monday, January 23, 2012

WIN With GROOVE!


That's right, GROOVE is giving away HEAPS this summer.
Next up is tickets for :

WOMAD in New Plymouth on 6 - 18 March 2012


Stay tuned to Groove to be in to win.
We also gave away tickets to:

MORE FM SUMMER Vineyard TOUR



and

BIG DAY OUT (AUCKLAND)


Go to our WIN page


and stay tuned to Groove all summer (Broadcasting on 107.7FM in Wellington
or streaming above)

http://winatgroove.blogspot.com/


And now back to the Music....

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Noel Gallagherclosed the show, saying 'See ya round, maybe.'


No fanfare, or spectacular close. No fireworks or any kind of Rock 'n' Roll finish. Russell Brown happened to be standing next to me, smoking a joint and quipped 'Is that it? No Encore". "Don't be stupi," his mate replied, "This is still the Gallaghers. You're lucky they turned up!."

Meet the punters at BDO 2012

Friday, January 20, 2012

The coffee Bar Kid is at the Big Day Out...

I'm currently in the crowd watching LIVING END. The crowd is an average size but I'm expecting more following 5pm and the end of working day. Best act so far was regurgitator.



Local skater - BDO 2012 ^





<- Laying down the law at BDO 2012.

The Foam dome at the Big day out.

To follow the coffeebar kids BDO adventures, hop over to his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/tim.gruar

Monday, January 09, 2012

NEWS FLASH! - Groove back LIVE on mobile apps!

The Groove stream is now back on mobile applications via the Tunein radio app.
This means you can listen to Groove live in crystal clear stereo anywhere in the world on your:



  • I-Phone

  • I-Pad

  • Android phone

  • Windows Phone

  • Palm

  • Blackberry

If you don't already have the Tunein radio app, it can be downloaded for free from the App store/Marketplace or you can get the Pro version for around $1.

PLEASE TELL EVERYONE!

Monday, November 07, 2011

This week on the Adventures of the Coffee Bar Kid

This week we check out new music from LA Mitchell, Sharon Jones, Amira Grenell (feat. at WOMAD next year), and interview

Mike McRoberts (TV3's Foreign Correspondent) about his biography 'Beyond the Front Line' and Sports Writer Bob Howitt, who's just released 'Black where it belongs' a retrospective play-by-play celebration of the All Blacks most awesome World Cup Campaign.

Plus we GIVE AWAY two passes to Fly My Pretties IV - St.James Theatre 19 November.

All the goss on the Pretties:

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Stayed tuned to Groove for all the upcoming festivals ...

We're all very excited at Groove. Next Wednesday 26 October is the launch of this year's line up for WOMAD 2012 in Taranaki and Groove's very own CoffeeBar Kid will be there to bring you the news on his show: The Adventures of the CoffeeBar Kid on 27 October from 7.30!


Also coming up is the Big Day Out! We have interviews and other goodies in the pipeline for this one too.... more to come on that soon!

Friday, October 14, 2011

BREAKING NEWS! Finally - GROOVE STREAMING LIVE ONLINE & ON YOUR I-PHONE! - Updated 18/10/11

You've asked for it many times and after sooo long, we're finally streaming online. Just click the button on the wee player above to enjoy Groove 107.7FM live in all it's Glorious Stereo Retro Digital High Fidelity.

You can also 'tune in' on your I-Phone, I-Pad, Blackberry or Android phone via the Tunein radio app available for free download!
Make sure you tell anyone you know who's moved out of town or doesn't quite have Groove reception and would love to listen "They can now listen to New Zealand's only Cafe Style Radio station on this very page (http://grooveradio.blogspot.com/)"

I'm pleased to say that within 12 hours of our stream going live, Dan from IT Services and learning was on the phone offering to sponsor the stream, enabling us to keep running it at great audio quality and 24 hours a day! Make sure you call them to fix any IT issues you have on 021-026 028 23 or go to http://www.itrepair.co.nz/.

Use the buttons below to tell your networks about the stream or with the 'Share on Facebook' button on the bottom right of this post.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

This week on the Adventures of the Coffee Bar Kid: Mel Parsons & Carolina Moon

This wek we have two fantastic interviews. One with West Coast singer Songwriter Mel Parsons and the other with Carolina Moon, Auckland based jazz singer and virtuoso.

Also, arather saucy review of Nicholson Barker's 'House of Holes'.

For details from theshow click the link: http://adventuresofthecoffeebarkid.blogspot.com/