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From our backyard, to your ears.
This New Zealand Music Month Beagle Radio is sniffing out the best of Northland talent. Each week in May, we’re hosting live in-studio sessions on alternating Fridays and Saturdays, featuring local musicians in conversation and performance.

It’s a simple format – chat, music – and a chance to hear directly from the people making it, in our region.

Saturday 30th May – 12PM – 2PM

Mermaid Bait
Bio:
Born in Whangārei in 2014 as a three-piece, Mermaid Bait has grown into a 10–12-piece marching band powerhouse. Their sound is an eclectic mix of seafaring tales, quirky lyrics, and songs made with and for their mates — all driven by a thundering percussion section. From their self-recorded album Songs in the Key of Brown to their latest EP Mermaid & the Brass Monkey, they bring big energy and a whole lot of heart to every stage.
Band members: Glenn Davidson (guitar/vocals), Mike Lyon (bass/vocals), Eursula Fleig (melodica/uke/vocals), Thorsten Hoppe (violin), David Fleig (bass drum), Ben Michelsen (snare drum), Matt Le Boer (saxophone/clarinet), Asha Gillard (sousaphone), Rachel Thorn (percussion), Duncan Kervell (percussion), Mark Smith (lead cowbell).

The Advocators
Bio:
The Advocators is the musical chimera creation of alt-country outsiders Leroy Brown and Mark Bruce. Leroy and Mark were born and raised in the neighbouring small rural towns of Kaiwaka and Maungaturoto in Northland, New Zealand, somewhere between the hillbillies, the misanthropes and a general sense of desperation. The pair have been writing and performing sporadically throughout their lives; Leroy learnt chords as a child out of the back of old Hymn books and Mark picked up the guitar after seeing his mate Billy Aiken shred a Led Zeppelin solo in high school.