Happy New Year, friends and fans of The WAITIKI 7!
Check out this video from last Fall’s Ohana Festival shot by Captain Quad and Velveteen Lounge. Starring Andrew Atkinson on the drums. (Sorry for the sound quality, especially the bass sound, on this clip!)
Some of our fans might recall the seemingly endless troubles we’ve had with live radio broadcasts in the past! Apparently our WFMU show is no exception. Hopefully you will finally get to hear it this weekend. Tune into wfmu.org if you’re not local to the NJ area.
FINALLY HEAR WAITIKI 7’s WFMU SHOW: This Sunday, October 11th, 5pm - 7pm (Eastern):
A Tropical Excursion With the Waitiki 7: Salvaged Shipwreck Edition
This is the radio show the gods don’t want you to hear! First, on Sept. 20, this program’s broadcast of two hours of exotica — including a live set from the Waitiki 7 — from a boat was waylaid when Poseidon forced our sturdy craft into New York’s version of the Bermuda Triangle, which swallowed up the broadcast signal like so many rummy seafarers. Then, just minutes before an attempted rebroadcast on Sept. 27, Thor tossed a celestial fistful of lightning bolts at the WFMU Building, knocking out the power for hours. So this time, to be on the safe side, a couple of the younger WFMU DJs have been flung into the mouth of a piping volcano — so hopefully, this third time will be the charm. Be a witness to the raising of this Titanic of a radio show from Davy Jones’s Locker!
Last Saturday, following a taping for Armchair Travelling’s DVD of TIKI we found ourselves sitting in 5 hours of NJ traffic thanks to some bonehead construction just a half mile from WFMU. We never thought we’d make it to the station. But when we did, the time was ripe for us to play some ultra slick live exotica.
If you missed last week’s broadcast of our live performance for WFMU, you can catch it again today! It airs at 6 PM. Tune into WFMU on the ray-dee-oh or online at wfmu.org. Or, if you really can’t make it, check it out later: The show will be permanently archived online a few hours after it airs.
Our thanks to Gaylord Fields and Glenn Luttmann for making this show possible.
P.S.: We followed up our WFMU show with a trip to Sabor Peru in Rutherford, NJ. That place was incredible… man, the tako ceviche… you should check it out if you’re ever in the area!
Our tour has wrapped up… it really went well. Many thanks to the hundreds of fans who came out to support us along the way. Your love for live exotica and hunger for our music is quite humbling! To those of you who weren’t able to catch us this time … have no fear, we hope to be back on the road again soon! Stay tuned for pics, videos, and more from the tour…
