Playing favourites with Kim Hill

Kim is a stalwart interviewer with broad knowledge on many subjects. We discuss my recent Black Pin award, the Financial Times redesign, the NZ flag debacle and bogans.

133 words by Kris Sowersby
30 March 2016

I was interviewed by Kim Hill for Radio NZ in her famous Playing Favourites program. It’s a great format, a casual, informed conversation interspersed by songs I have chosen. Kim is a stalwart interviewer with broad knowledge on many subjects. We discuss my recent Black Pin award, the Financial Times redesign, the NZ flag debacle and bogans.

I was also asked to provide accompanying images for the Radio NZ website. The only images appropriate to the music I had chosen were a series of famous metal logotype interpretations that I’d drawn a while back. Can you pick what they are?

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