bFM or 95bFM is a New Zealand student radio station. It operates in Auckland on a Schedule 7 (educational purposes) semi-commercial licence. The station is based in the Student Union Building at the University of Auckland, is owned by a trust on behalf of the Auckland University Students Association (AUSA), and broadcasts its signal to greater Auckland at 95.0 on the FM dial. It was the promoter of the b Net New Zealand Music Awards and the popular Summer Series live events in nearby Albert Park, Auckland. Formerly known as Radio B, or Campus Radio, and broadcasting on the AM network, it began broadcasting on the FM frequency in the mid-1980s (possibly 1985). Personalities included Mikey Havoc, Newsboy (Jeremy Wells), Hugh Sundae, Paul Casserly, Sarah Pritchett, Damian Christie, Troy Ferguson, Sean Grattan, Dave Perry, Roger Perry, Luke Thompson.
bFM (Radio station : Auckland, N.Z.)
[Folder 8. Stickers for radio stations and television channels, from small up to quarto...
Date: 1999-2009
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Smyth-08
Description: Includes stickers for the following radio stations: 88.3FM, BOP Polytechnic Radio 89FM 89X, the new rock station 90.5 Tahufm; today's hottest music 91FM 92.3M; the most fun. We play stuff (two copies) 92.3M; the most fun (very small) (two copies) 93.4 Rox FM 1015 UMFM (four different colourings) Auckland 91.0ZM b 95FM b 95FM Louder Base FM107.3, Freeview channel 71 Channel Z 91.7FM, 94.7 FM, Wellington Channel Z 99.3FM, Christchurch (two copies) The Edge FM Hauraki; classic rock that rocks. Auckland 99FM (two copies) KCRW 89.9 FM KEXP 90.3 Seattle KROQ 106.7 FM [Los Angeles] Lakes 96FM; 95.9FM/1548AM M; the Most 100.4FM M, the most FM 92.3 MAI 88.6 FM; Auckland's hottest music (two different) Manukau's Soul FM 96.8 Max the music channel. Music TV to the max. Philips Power Play Pirate Radio 98.5 FM Plains FM, community radio, Te Reo Irirangi o te Maania www.plainsfm.org.nz, community radio, Te Reo Irirangi o te Maania rdu 98.3FM, Feeding the natives since 1976 rdu 98.3FM, Higher learning RDU 98.5FM (various) Radio U 98.5 FM Radio Active 89FM Radio Massey 99.4FM RedFM.co.nz 9inety6ixdot1 Vision 100FM, Palmerston North (two copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Stickers, sizes up to 330 mm.
[Ephemera, tickets and cards, up to quarto size, collected by Brendan Smyth. Folder 7. ...
Date: 1994-2007
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Smyth-07
Description: Includes cards: Channel Z 91.7 FM Channel Z launch party. Chch Town Hall 8 August 1999. All areas pass Supergroove. St Kevin's Arcade, K Rd, 30 July 1996 Boost. Win! Blindspott in your lounge this summer Breathe, The Dead Flowers, The Feelers. Lower Hutt Horticultural Hall, Friday 17 July [2000s?]. M Access media Lees and West present Big Day Out 2001. Card and sticker The Feelers. Playground Battle album launch. Regent St James Complex, 28 November [2003] Flying Nun Records. 21st. York Street Studios, Parnell, 22 March 2002. Media pass Flying Nun invites Brendan Smyth[e] to a special evening. Mandalay, October 8th [Date?] Moi, FM88 (Lip-shaped sticker) MVA Much. '06 MuchMusic Video awards[Toronto, Canada. 18 June 2006] NZ on Air invites you to an exclusive showcase by some electrifying local bands: Opshop, The Tutts, Shaky Hands, The Rabble. Kings Arms, 7 February 2007 NZ on Air invites you to an exclusive showcase of the newest stars on the block: Hollie Smith, Luke Thompson, Anabel Fay. Back Beat, 28 June 2007 bFM LOUDER (Sticker) Active 89FM. Noise annoys (Sticker) bFM 2001 bnet NZ Music Awards. Ticket for Brendan Smyth bFM Christmas party, at Escape, 161 Ponsonby Road, Monday 5 December Big Day Out. Auckland, Ericsson Stadium, 17 January 2003. Ticket The Feelers. April '99. Tickets for VIP and Backstage guest The Feelers. "Communicate" album release. Secret location 8 October [2001]. Ticket Geographica tour. Weta VIP Guest. Monday 18th September [Year?]. Pass ticket Goldenhorse. "Out of the moon". Siren, 31 March [2005] The Muttonbirds on tour with Tim Finn. NZ tour Oct/Nov 99. Access all areas [Pass ticket] 91 FM. U R on the one 91 FM Dunedin City NZ Music Month 2005. Shihad live. Aotea Square, 1 May [2005]. Invitation / ticket NZ on Air. Business cards for Nicole Gilbert, Nicky Jarvis and Sherie O'Neill. Phase Four turns Five. NZ on Air invitation to a function to mark the fifth anniversary of the Phase Four Music Plan. Toto's Montecristo Room, 53 Nelson Street, Auckland City. 28 July 91ZM (Pauline Gillespie, Grant Kereama, Nick Tansley) Proud; a urban-Pacific streetsoul compilation [1994] The Quake. 97.5 FM. Sticker Shihad, Salmonella Dub, Letterbox Lambs. Victoria University, 16 May 1997. Backstage pass Split Enz 1972-1992. 20th anniversary tour March 1993. Phone card $5 Straitjacket Fits. "Blow". Phone card $5 Squeeze 2003 Wrap Party. 4:20, 373 K Road, Auckland. Ticket for Brendan Smyth Sweetwaters Festival. Puhinui Reserve, Manukau, 22-25 Jan 1999. VIP Guest ticket Sweetwaters Festival.January 1999. Access all areas [Ticket] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets, fliers, stickers, sizes up to 330 mm.
[Folder 22. Material removed from black polypropylene bag labelled Radio 95 BFM from th...
Date: 2005
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Smyth-22
Description: Includes: 2005 b.Net NZ Music Awards. Auckland Town Hall, 27 May [2005]. [Guest ticket for Table 19] Elizabeth Arden "Green tea" scent. Eau perfumée [Packet] (Glass scent vial not kept) Mexican Café. Free margarita! voucher (2 copies) Radio One 91FM sticker RetroScooter - offer of a free jacket or parka with every Belladonna RV150 scooter sold from this B Net Awards promotion Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 220 mm.
[Folder 20. Miscellaneous small objects]
Date: 2000-2013
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Smyth-20
Description: Includes: Cardboard coaster with illustrating of a kiwi holding a guitar (two copies) The D4; red and yellow embroidered monogram Diligent Board Member Services Inc. Brendan Smyth card Direct TV Satellite television playing cards. Made in China NZ On Air. Mike McClung. Business card NZ On Air. Tania Dean. Business card New Zealand Music Month May 2009. Guitar pick and ear plugs 95bFM calendar 2008 in plastic case (originally had a copy of Anna Coddington's promo CD "Hold you there" slipped inside case) [Sony Music Entertainment]. Dave Dobbyn. "Twist". Wooden coaster [Sony Music Entertainment]. Strawpeople. "Boradcast". Wooden coaster [Sony Music Entertainment]. Strawpeople. "Sweet disorder". Wooden coaster Volsk [vodka] metal bottle opening with NZ On Air sticker on it Quantity: 1 box. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying up to 220 mm.
[Ephemera and posters up to A3 size, collected by Brendan Smyth. 1993-2015]
Date: 1993 - 2008 - 2012 - 2015 - 2010 - 2013
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
Reference: Eph-C-MUSIC-Smyth
Description: Includes: Undated: Hustler, Hollywood. Relax, it's just sex. www.hustlerhollywood.com. Plastic bag Sheet of six black and white Music Month stickers 1993: 1993 95bFM Nude calendar 1999: Sweetwaters Festival 22-25 January 1999. Tabloid newspaper 2008: The 43rd annual RIANZ Vodafone NZMusic awards. Vector Arena Auckland, 8 Oct 2008. Official programme 2009: Smashproof. The weekend. Universal Music Group [2009]. Poster The 44th annual RIANZ Vodafone NZMusic awards. Vector Arena Auckland, 8 Oct 2009. Official programme Mint Chicks Screens [Cover design. 2009] 2010: The 45th annual RIANZ Vodafone NZMusic awards. Vector Arena Auckland, 7 Oct 2010. Official programme 2012: The 47th annual RIANZ Vodafone NZMusic awards. Vector Arena Auckland, 1 Nov 2012. Official programme 2013: The 48th annual Vodafone NZ Music awards. Vector Arena Auckland, 21 Nov 2013. Official programme 2015: Recorded Music NZ presents Vodafone New Zealand Music awards, celebrating 50 years of NZ music, 1965-2015. Official programme Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on booklets, poster, calendar, sizes up to 420 mm.
Various makers: Perspex awards from music-related events, from the collection of Brenda...
Date: 1998-2016
From: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-: Collection
By: Smyth, Brendan, 1950-
Reference: Curios-054-1/4
Description: The four awards comprise: 1. A DVD disc mounted on perspex award with the text "The Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki o Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua... Music Video Wall of Fame 2009 Brendan Smyth" (2009?) 2. "Double Digits" award which includes the "Double Digits" and "NZ on Air" logos, and the text "Jimmy Stewart, Andi Dawkins and More FM in Christchurch and Dunedin in recognition of the station's support for New Zealand music" (1999) 3. A Darcy Clay compact disc mounted inside the perspex award "Presented to NZ on Air in recognition of significant airplay by Antenna" (1998?) 4. "Long Player" award which includes the text "Presented to NZ on Air in celebration of 26 episodes of the New Zealand music feature Long Player" and "Media Music" in frosted lettering on the back of the award (2016?) Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 4 curio(s). Physical Description: Mixed media, including perspex, metal nuts and bolts, compact discs; sizes vary
Campus Radio BFM: Campus Radio BFM presents Outnumbered by Sheep; over 45 mins of great...
Date: 1986
From: Various artists :[Posters advertising sound and phonographic recordings made in 1986].
Reference: Eph-D-PHONO-1986-11
Description: Poster advertising a Flying Nun sound recording release from Auckland University student radio shows colourful circular patterns reminiscent of artwork by Sonia Delaunay. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 425 x 588 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1986.
95BFM (Radio station ; Auckland, N.Z.): It's gettin' hot in here. b 95FM. Havoc 10-12 w...
Date: 2003
From: [Ephemera of octavo size, sales catalogues and pamphlets related to radio and radio equipment, transmission, radio stations and radio clubs in New Zealand]
Reference: Eph-A-RADIO-2003-01
Description: Card promoting the 95FM Auckland radio station shows on the front a photograph of an interior with the personalites of the station posed as if at the aftermath of a wedding breakfast. Mikey Havoc is in the left foreground, Newsboy wears a turban and reaches across the food table. Bride and groom are slumped in chairs at the table. In the right foreground a man speaks into a microphone. A man plays guitar, two bridesmaids talk together, and a woman walks on the table in the background. The verso shows the weekly regular radio programmes for Breakfast with Hugh Sundae, Trailor with a cage with Mikey Havoc, The Wire, bFM Drive with Nick D, Camilla, Slave & Otis, Roger Perry, Jason Rockpig, Sicoff and Graeme, each on different days of the week. Quantity: 14 colour photo-mechanical print(s) in packet. Physical Description: Offset prints on both sides of flyer, 148 x 211 mm.
BFM Live To Air/The Bats, The 3Ds, This Nation's Dreaming, Ola
Date: 14 September 1990
From: McLeod, Donald, active 1974-2020: Collection
By: The Bats (Musical group); The 3Ds (Musical group); bFM (Radio station : Auckland, N.Z.)
Reference: MSC-025882
Description: An audiocasette copy of a recording made by the radio station BFM of a gig at The Gluepot, Auckland, on 14 September 1990 featuring The Bats performing live, supported by The 3Ds, This Nation's Dreaming, with guest appearence from Ola. The audiocassette label is annotated "Bats". Part of the BFM Live To Air series. Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). Physical Description: Audiocassette cover features text in black type over two blue coloured photographic depictions of The Bats and The 3Ds; TrueTone logo and STA Travel logo in corner of artowrk Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.