Troy Kingi is a man on a well-documented mission, creating ten albums in ten different genres, over the course of ten years for his 10:10:10 project.

Through this project, Troy has carved a remarkable reputation for musical versatility.

In August, he released album number 8 in the project, Leatherman & the Mojave Green, a rock album that has brought him back to his roots.

Before getting to work on his final two albums, Kingi has found the time to squeeze in a tour of New Zealand.

Leatherman was recorded in Joshua Tree, a national park in California, and Kingi told Jack Tame that the choice to record there was him trying to rekindle the flame that got him into the industry in the first place.

“I was at a point where I was questioning all my directions, and back in the beginning, I’d just write for the loving of writing and things would flow the way they’d flowed. And I felt like I kind of lost that,” he told Tame.

“So actually going back to a genre of style that is probably the core of who I am, it was timely, it was like, perfect timing.”

He’s been touring the album around New Zealand since its release, with more shows still to come in Christchurch, Hamilson, Tauranga, Napier, and Gisborne.

More info on shows and tickets can be found here.

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Kiwi music collective TOI has released their newest album ‘Waves’, showcasing their signature sound of modern soul, old school funk, and R&B, along with a new experimental approach.

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the new release.

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Precipice by Robert Harris

Summer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe.

In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state.

As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents – and suddenly what was a sexual intrigue becomes a matter of national security that will alter the course of political history.

Billionaire, Nerd Saviour, King: Bill Gates and his Quest to Shape Our World by Anupreeta Das

Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates's story, and here, Das's revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates's relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates's story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes.

Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world's richest people hold us in their thrall.

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How many investment properties can the average investor afford to buy? It depends on income, but Ed McKnight has run some numbers. Plus, he answers the question of how much they really make.

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"Colourful, playful, sun-splashed Cairns enjoys the unique distinction of being cradled in tropical wonder. The gateway city straddles two World Heritage-protected treasures: the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest. I took a daytrip to the family-favourite destination of Fitzroy Island. Just 45 minutes from Cairns on the Fitzroy Flyer, this barefoot island getaway serves up a flavourful dabble with the Great Barrier Reef. The island is designated a National Park, in deference to its spectacular walking trails, rainforest, beaches and abundant marine life, in the calm sheltered waters. It’s jaw-dropping to think the island was previously connected to the mainland before the last Ice Age."

Read Mike's full article here.

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On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 14th September 2024, the man with a remarkable reputation for musical versatility, Troy Kingi joins Jack to chat album number 8 in his 10:10:10 series.

Jack ponders a social media ban for those under 16 years of age.

Spring is making itself known and chef Nici Wickes shares a deliciously creamy recipe perfect for moments of seasonal entertaining.

Can ice cream tub lids be recycled? Kate sets things straight about what can't be recycled through curbside bins.

Plus, Apple have released a surprising product - a hearing aid! Tech expert Paul Stenhouse discusses the tech-for-good.

Get the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast every Saturday on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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After recycling was standardised in February, many people are still unaware they can't put any caps or lids in their curbside recycling bins.

A new scheme has recently launched, allowing people to bring their caps and lids into participating supermarkets to be properly recycled.

Kate ‘Ethically Kate’ Hall joined Jack Tame to give a refresher on recycling, and a bit of advice in how to make it easier.

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I’ve been pretty busy in the garden, tunnel house, and grassy building site. That always seem to happen with me just before spring emerges – it’s a frantic time.

Spades

When you’re digging out flax or any plant, tree, shrub for that matter, some soil types make it difficult to get into with a regular spade. We had a rather dry late winter period with soil becoming pretty hard to open up.

My best investment for these conditions is my trenching spade:

A long and tapering blade that ends up with just 10 centimetres of bottom edge, easy to drive into the soil and allowing you to tackle the hard clay with a minimum amount of effort.

I tried to dig out large, old flax plants and the only way to do that is with a trenching spade – no contest!

Of course, as the name suggests, trenching spades were invented to create long narrow trenches for power lines of water pipes.

Why dig our more than you need to?

Weeding implements

We all know what a hoe is; a push or pull device that can cut plants off their roots. I am really simplifying the various hoes in existence – there are many different varieties, but the system is quite simple: you either push the blade through the top-layers of the soil, or you pull.

My favourite hoe is the one created by a Dutchman Jaap Sneeboer. I think he calls it “the Royal Hoe” – how Dutch is that!

It has a double attack ability: a regular pull hoe that is made from very sturdy metal, and a three-tine fork that can go deeper to remove rather sturdy roots. That fork is also brilliant for aerating the soil.

It’s a tall, and solid hoe that will do a multitude of jobs before you start sowing new seeds or planting new veges.

Cutting Flax leaves

Always a real pain in the bum. Flax leaves are so resistant to secateurs and knives.

I have them on the sides of our driveway and you can literally imagine how these long and resistant leaves always grow out over the drive...

The “knife” that works well is the Niwashi Flax knife and the Maruyoshi flax cutter (there are all kinds of models on the NZ market now). Make sure that you get a sturdy one that lasts for years.

It’s a mean tool! The curved blade has extremely sharp teeth that will go through flax leaves without any trouble at all. The teeth are angled towards the bottom and therefore will always work in a downward motion. Of course, they will also cut the leaves of Cabbage trees.

A Cultivator

This thing weeds, pulls out roots, and cuts out all the undesirables from within the rows of edibles and ornamentals, without accidentally hitting the desirables!

The Clark Cultivator was designed in Christchurch and is used as a hand-tool. The main blade emerges in a 90 degree angle and is super sharp.

It rips roots off the weeds and the pointy end can be manoeuvred with incredible accuracy. That pointy end is also very useful if you want to quickly dig a hole to transplant anything that needs a new position. It even allows you to create a perfectly straight line to sow some seeds

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