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DJs on east Auckland’s popular community radio station are all in a spin as they get ready to drop the needle on vinyl records continuously for 24 hours this weekend.
East FM, with its studio in the town square in Howick Village, is participating in Vinylthon, joining other radio stations around the world to honour the magic of music on vinyl records.
“Yes, we’ll be playing nothing but vinyl, non-stop, for a full 24 hours,” says Beagle Everitt, East FM’s lead Vinylthon organsier.
“East FM is the only participating radio station in New Zealand out of hundreds all around the world.
“It’s all about the charm and passion of playing, collecting and appreciating both the history and the future of music on vinyl – your favourite singles and LPs from today and decades past.
“Join East FM for this special Vinylthon event from midday on Saturday, April 12, to midday on Sunday, April 13.”
East FM is encouraging music and vinyl record enthusiasts to listen in and there’s a chance for them to win vinyl records.
Recording artists with strong connections to the east Auckland area have answered the station’s call for vinyl prizes to give away.
The musicians are Kiwi music legend John Hanlon, contributing his 1988 album Short Stories; drummer-composer Taylor Griffin providing his brilliant modern-era jazz EP of last year In Green; Claudia Robin Gunn and her 2024 NZ Music Award-winning collaborative children’s music album Firefly; and the DIRT album Bloom of 2019 featuring Netherworld Dancing Toys’ Nick Sampson and the late Malcolm Black, and Barry Blackler, the former drummer for Jesus and the Mary Chain and of Blackout Music NZ.
Everitt says if any listener has a request for a song, the DJs will try their best to accommodate them, from the vinyl record library the DJs have created from their own collections.
“Do you have a favourite song or album side you’d like to hear? Send us your email request in advance, to studio@eastfm.nz.”
- East FM community radio broadcasts on local east Auckland frequencies 88.1FM and 107.1FM, around the world at www.eastfm.nz and on the iHeart Radio app.
