6 Jan 2018

Summer Jams: Marlon Williams shares his favourite summer song

From RNZ Music, 2:05 pm on 6 January 2018

Our favourite local musicians share the song that's their soundtrack to summer. Marlon Williams' pick is 'Wild Horses' by Prefab Sprout.

Why:  "This artist was introduced to me by my friend Kirin J Callinan ... [He's] really is the most enigmatic and wonderful human being alive, and Prefab Sprout are his favourite band.

"We were hanging out in LA one night and he just started playing me these songs. I was ... enchanted. I hadn't really heard music like this before. It's sort of got this weird self-awareness to it, and it's self-deprecating but very serious at the same time.

"This one song in particular - the groove of this song, the way it goes into the chorus, it made me want to jam along!"

29062016 Photo RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King. Marlon Williams in studio at The Sitting Room in Lyttleton.

Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King

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