Bill Direen's guest appearances

Bill Direen

Sweetman Podcast

Ears Wide Open

Arts Hub

Chris Wilson

Kate Spencer

Alejandro Escovedo

Tom Scott

Dean Hewison

Chris Cain

Paul McLaney

Graeme Tuckett

Pip Algie

Ross Jolly

Roger Shepherd

Delia Shanly

Costa Botes

Matt Vickers

Freeman White

OwlTail

The National Library is jettisoning thousands of books - Bill Direen, writer and musician, told us about the National Library's plan to take all the books of the Overseas Collection away to storage in Wanganui, and they will only be available digitally.Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

The National Library is jettisoning thousands of books - Bill Direen, writer and musician, told us about the National Library's plan to take all the books of the Overseas Collection away to storage in Wanganui, and they will only be available digitally. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin <a href="http://www.oar.org.nz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.oar.org.nz</a>

25-02-2021 - Arts Hub - The National Library is jettisoning thousands of books - Bill Direen (Edit)

Anna and Bill talk about writing, sanity, love and music, with extra lip-smacking.Bill Direen is performing with an eight-piece improvisation orchestra in Dunedin and Oamaru this coming Armistice Weekend. He will sing songs in English, many of them translated from the languages of our allies or enemies in the First World War. The songs will alternate with ensemble improvisations on war, peace, political violence and political progress. The evening begins with a song cycle co-written by Bill (Direen) and NZ poet Alan Brunton based on the life of Michael Joseph Savage. Those dates are: two nights in The New Athenaeum Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin, Friday November 9th and Saturday November 10th at 8:30pm, and one show on Armistice Day itself, Sunday November 11th, at 4pm in the Grainstore, Harbour Street, Oamaru.https://www.facebook.com/events/2179503808985793/https://www.facebook.com/events/919754151544297/

Anna and Bill talk about writing, sanity, love and music, with extra lip-smacking.Bill Direen is performing with an eight-piece improvisation orchestra in Dunedin and Oamaru this coming Armistice Weekend. He will sing songs in English, many of them translated from the languages of our allies or enemies in the First World War. The songs will alternate with ensemble improvisations on war, peace, political violence and political progress. The evening begins with a song cycle co-written by Bill (Direen) and NZ poet Alan Brunton based on the life of Michael Joseph Savage. Those dates are: two nights in The New Athenaeum Theatre, the Octagon, Dunedin, Friday November 9th and Saturday November 10th at 8:30pm, and one show on Armistice Day itself, Sunday November 11th, at 4pm in the Grainstore, Harbour Street, Oamaru.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2179503808985793/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/2179503808985793/</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/919754151544297/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/919754151544297/</a>

#26: Bill Direen

An in-depth conversation with writer and musician Bill Direen

ep # 124 - Bill Direen

An in-depth chat with writer and musician Bill Direen. We talk about his upbringing, his early interest in music and his movement between writing for the page and the stage; travel, scholarship, commitment and craft. We talk about motivations and aims - and then the actual work. So much of it. There's no end-point, there's no chance he'll stop creating until he has to.

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 124 -  Bill Direen