Forty six and 2 (The Friday at 5 edition)

Forty six and 2 (The Friday at 5 edition)

Matt and Maria start the weekend with rock, metal, and the occasional decree from their evil Robot Overlord - who, despite the title, is apparently quite lovely. Forty six and 2 is supported by Beggs Music Works in Hardy Street, Nelson and airs Fridays at 5.00pm

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Episode 2026-32 - Return of the Friday Drifter

September 11, 2026 • 60 mins
Matt and Maria drift through Clutch, Polyphia, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Danzig, Judas Priest, Down, and The Who’s mighty Won’t Get Fooled Again as the long song.
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Episode 2026-31 - Jolene Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam

August 28, 2026 • 58 mins
Matt and Maria take a wonderfully strange turn through Anthony Vincent’s Slipknot-style Jolene (in honour of Dolly), Puscifer, Queensrÿche, Fear Factory, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Slayer, and Intronaut’s Killing Birds With Stones as the long song. It's all unplugged shadows, industrial bite and sacrificial riffs.
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Episode 2026-30 - Earthquake at Otter Creek

August 21, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria raid the shelves with The Barbarians of California, Evil Island, Zeal & Ardor, Live, Jane’s Addiction, Blind Melon, Deftones, Pull Down The Sun, Mötley Crüe, and Tool’s Invincible as the long song. Expect earthquakes, digital baths, live wires and missing records.
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Episode 2026-29 - Black Magick Spaceship Landing

August 14, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria tune into strange frequencies with AvonRose, Green Lung, Nine Inch Noize, Gaupa, Mr Bungle, Yuuge, Mastodon, and Kyuss’ mighty Spaceship Landing as the long song. Expect black magick, blind sides, burning asses and snakes for dinner.
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Episode 2026-28 - Heresy at the Hot Rod Revival

August 7, 2026 • 58 mins
Matt and Maria charge through Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, a double hit of Propagandhi, Amyl and the Sniffers, Puscifer live, ELO, and Metallica’s mighty Master of Puppets as the long song. Expect heresy, hot rods, security issues, philosophical meat, and the Robot Overlord being quietly happy with Maria's attendance.
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Episode 2026-27 - Life’s Been Good, but Maria’s Been Crook

July 31, 2026 • 58 mins
Maria was a little under the weather, so Matt and the Evil Robot Overlord held the fort with Sleep Token, Faith No More, System of a Down, Primus, Megadeth, Pull Down the Sun, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, PJ Harvey, and Joe Walsh’s Life’s Been Good as the long song. Expect magics, mountains and (solo) missions!
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Episode 2026-26 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Robot Overlord

July 24, 2026 • 58 mins
We hit Friday with Warlock, Accept, Helloween, Killing Joke, Van Halen, Claemus, Ozzy Osbourne, Clutch, and George Thorogood’s One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer as the long song. Expect warnings, eruptions, asteroids, outlaws, and Maria to wander in at some point!
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Episode 2026-25 - First It Giveth, Then It Frayeth

July 17, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt steers a suitably odd Friday ride through Mr Bungle, The Mothers of Invention, Metallica, Megadeth, Queens of the Stone Age, David Lee Roth, and Traffic’s sprawling The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys as the long song. Expect sorrow, sanity fraying, world-burning guitars, and Matt doing as instructed by the Lovely Robot Overlord.
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Episode 2026-24 - The Tree Really Got Me

July 10, 2026 • 59 mins
After a storm felled a tree and cut power to Maria and Matt’s place, the show naturally answered with The Doors, Truckfighters, The Kinks, Baroness, AC/DC, King Buffalo, Alien Weaponry, and A Perfect Circle. Expect storms, momentum, TNT, suspicious robot weather control, and absolutely no guarantee the lights stay on.
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Episode 2026-23 - Mama Sed... Maria?

July 3, 2026 • 59 mins
Puscifer, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Metallica, Pull Down The Sun, Warning, Skid Row, and Warrant. Expect heavy rituals, monkey business, cherry pie, and absolutely no reliable attendance records.
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Episode 2026-22 - Have Spacesuit, Will Ruin

June 26, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria launch into heavy orbit with Sleep, Meshuggah, Judas Priest, All Them Witches, Zeal & Ardor, Mastodon, Polyphia, and Elder’s mighty Sigil to Ruin as the long song. Expect doom, ghosts, nightmares, haunted internet, and the Evil Robot Overlord insisting the spacesuit is “purely precautionary.”
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Episode 2026-21 - Moonlapse Vertigo and the Missing Maria

June 19, 2026 • 59 mins
Maria made it on time, then vanished to capture the sunset leaving Robot Overlord to keep Matt on task. Featuring Nine Inch Nails x Depeche Mode, Gojira, Claemus, Smashing Pumpkins, Dartz, Faith No More, Anthrax, and Opeth’s magnificent Moonlapse Vertigo as the long song.
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Episode 2026-20 - Old Made New (and does anything really change?)

June 12, 2026 • 59 mins
An epsiode from the Archive, as Maria and Matt were setting up for the Fresh FM Quiz Fundraiser. Some great music in this episode, including Pink Floyd, Melvins, Megadeth and a long song from Sleep Token.
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Episode 2026-19 - To Hell With the Weather

June 5, 2026 • 59 mins
After a wild Nelson Tasman storm with over 2500 reported lightning strikes, Matt and Maria answer with Mötley Crüe, Stryper, Ozzy, Alexandr Misko, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Clutch, System of a Down, and Tool’s mighty Pushit as the long song.
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Episode 2026-18 - The Day Will Come for Dangerous Cold Ones

June 1, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria wrap up NZ Music Month with Split Enz, Dartz, Shihad, Sawnoff, Deranger, Claemus, Blackjack, DD Smash, Head Like A Hole, and Mice on Stilts’ majestic Orca as the long song. Local legends, deep cuts, dangerous cold ones, and the Evil Robot Overlord declaring the month successfully riffed.
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Episode 2026-17 - Ru Ana Te Whenua and Other Local Tremors

May 22, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria keep NZ Music Month rumbling with Alien Weaponry, The Mint Chicks, The Mutton Birds, Head Like a Hole, Elemeno P, Ulcerate, Cairo Knife Fight, and Swamp Thing. Expect local tremors, cliff-edge chaos, fast times and dark corners.
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Episode 2026-16 - Comfortably Controlled by Maria

May 15, 2026 • 58 mins
Maria takes the controls while Matt remains only partially present, which may or may not be an improvement. This NZ-heavy episode features Head Like A Hole, The D4, Elidi with Pull Down the Sun, a double dose of Sticky Filth, Blam Blam Blam, Bulletbelt, and Kerretta’s massive Bone Amber Reigns as the long song — plus a Salmonella Dub detour before Maria and Matt head to their gig.
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Episode 2026-15 - Crying Shame at Sundown

May 8, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria keep NZ Music Month roaring with Head Like a Hole, Darcy Clay, Claemus, Murgatroyd, Villainy, and Jakob’s magnificent Everything All of the Time as the long song. Local riffs, strange treasures, and the Evil Robot Overlord pretending this was all its idea.
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Episode 2026-14 - Brown Paper Beers

May 1, 2026 • 59 mins
Matt and Maria go full Aotearoa noise machine with Push Push, The D4, Deja Voodoo, Beastwars, Stardrunk, The Hasselhoff Experiment, and Pull Down The Sun’s mighty Inoi as the long song. Expect beers, riffs, brown paper bags, and the Evil Robot Overlord quietly approving from the control room.
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Episode 2026-13 - Victory Laps, Yellow Snow & Swaggering Robots

April 24, 2026 • 59 mins
This week, Matt and Maria take a strange and splendid Friday detour through Patti Smith, Judas Priest, Propagandhi, Twisted Sister, Frank Zappa, Yes, David Bowie remixed by Nine Inch Nails, and Aotearoa’s own Head Like a Hole. There’s punk bite, metal swagger, prog grandeur with Yes’ “Roundabout” as the long song, and a firm reminder from Zappa to avoid suspicious snow. The Evil Robot Overlord approve...
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