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Waiheke Radio are delighted to announce that Kiwi songwriting legend Don McGlashan (formerly of The Mutton Birds and Blam Blam Blam) and the Seven Sisters have been confirmed for the Waiheke Radio Fundraiser and 1st Birthday Bash at Morra Hall on Saturday 28th November.

The Nikki Ngatai Band will support Don on the night and we're confirming another great local band to kick the whole thing off.

Tickets for this gig will go quickly so we thought we'd give all you Waiheke Radio fans a heads up first. Tickets are being created this week and if you'd like to be one of the first to reserve your tickets then send an email to simonmansfield@ihug.co.nz and we'll make sure it happens.

We're not entirely sure why Simon & El are doing the Saturday Breakfast Show as they are both rubbish at getting up early in the morning, especially at the weekends. That said they do love Waiheke Radio and so here they are, your Saturday Breakfast DJs.

Join Simon & El every Satuday as they attempt to entertain the listening public while eating their cornflakes and otherwise preparing for the rigours of another weekend on Waiheke. They do this with the seemingly effortless interplay of witty banter and good tunes that are worth turning on the radio at 8 o'clock in the morning for.   The shows include stock radio stand-by's shamelessly pilferred from proper radio stations such as 'This Day In Rock History' as well as items unique to the show such as a round-up of the weekly news on the Island with added 'informed comment', scurrilous and mostly pointless gossip culled from the internet, El's ever popular Film Review and, of course, the

These fabulous Waiheke Radio T-Shirts are now available to buy at the 'Island' shop, Ocean View Road, Oneroa. You know the place. The shop where you get all the cool, locally produced stuff. T-shirts are currently available Mens and Womens styles in Green and Grey, more colours will be added to the range later. They retail at $35

The 'Island' store is also stocking the Waiheke Radio bumper stickers so if you want to support your local radio station the best way to do it is to slap one of these to the back of your car - and buy a T-shirt ofcourse.

Woolworths Waiheke re-opened today at reduced capacity, less than two weeks after a fire seriously damaged the supermarket. The store is open 9am-7pm seven days a week and is operating in an enclosed space about 40% as large as its original retail area.  The “left” side of the store is undergoing major reconstruction. 

“Our staff and an army of contractors have been working around the clock to get the store opened at reduced capacity. It’s been a huge effort.  We know that having the store closed has been a major inconvenience to the people of Waiheke, so we’ve pulled out all the stops to re-open what we can,” said Dave Chambers, GM Supermarkets.

The store’s reduced range includes: grocery, deli, frozen, meat, perishables, produce and bakery.  This will be improved over the coming weeks. 

In the meanwhile, Progressive will continue temporarily offering a free shuttle bus service from the downtown Ferry Building to the Foodtown on Quay Street and its online shopping to Waiheke residents; orders over $75 will be delivered free to WCH Ltd, 102 Ostend Road (previously, the service was not available to people on Waiheke Island).  Customers can order on line at www.woolworths.co.nz or www.foodtown.co.nz during this transition period.  More details are available by ringing 0800 40 40 40 or via our website www.progressive.co.nz

Progressive Enterprises hopes to re-open the Waiheke Woolworths to full capacity by 22 July.

Media Release from Woolworths - 19 June 2009

...in which Simon and El indulge their love for the remix and bring you two hours of mixed up choons they responsibly decided were too long, too big or just too out there for The Saturday Morning Breakfast Show.

Some people think the original track is definitive and sacred; not something to be tinkered with. Simon and El have been known to think that too, but they also enjoy hearing the familiar in the unfamiliar, they like to explore all the different directions a song can take you and they relish the unexpected beats and studio trickery that enhance, uplift and enrich their favourite records. Expect to hear tracks by the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, St. Etienne, Goldfrapp, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs remixed by some cutting edge producers that will bring a whole new dimension to the songs you thought you knew.

Join Simon & El this Sunday 24th May @ 9:30 for some top tunes going off the deep end on The Sunday Special Remix.