Posts by Russell Brown
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I concur with a) and b). So by what process does one revise the brief and vet the young blood ? Who does it ?
I don't think it has to be NZ On Air, but I really think there needs to be a social media/internet person full-time, somewhere in the support structure.
The last time I was at the King's Arms I found myself promising a local band manager I'd sit down with him and work through some key blogs and people for online profile-building.
I don't mind doing something like that, but there should be someone whose job it is to have the knowledge.
Job description: active contact with appropriate people at NZ music sites, Amplifier, YouTube, key social networking sites, Last.fm, music blogs, etc.
Longer-term aims: to devise a workable arrangement with RIANZ/IMNZ/APRA etc for the sampling of music via the internet, and explore the circumstances in which support for the likes of Amplifier (because a digital shopfront presence and marketing are the same thing now), possibly taking the form of support for an aggregation agency or two, would be appropriate.
Along those lines ... and yes, I'm happy to share whatever I can contribute for free.
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As a footnote, I believe that NZ On Air used to provide funding for Radio One for their support of NZ music. I presume the other b-net stations got something similar.
The bNet was created precisely because it allowed the member stations to present a national entity and thus qualify for funding. Inside Track and a few other things do get NZ On Air support as a result.
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And Russell, you cut Brendan off as he was saying something about commercial radio audiences being up something like 12 percent. he didn't get a chance to tell us over what time period etc.
Perils of television. We were over time and I needed to wrap up. It's the kind of thing you realise afterwards.
You interjected with you slightly self serving point that internet people are the new taste makers, and in nz thats certainly the case, because we are so poorly served by local radio as far as our own voice in music is concerned.
It's not self-serving, it's simply evident. I wouldn't count myself in that anyway.
does your personal relationship with brendan smyth have an impact?
No, Rob, it doesn't. I see the guy several times a year at various events, I like and respect him, but I've never been to his house or even sat down and had a drink with him. There's no need to invent conspiracies. My opinions are my own. Could you please stop trying to personalise the issue in this way?
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Cheers for the I'm on Fire link Russell - that is the perfect song for a late Friday afternoon tidy up of loose ends at work before the beer in the sun. Eerily accurate matching to mood.
You're welcome. I'm not even a Bruce fan (although I have been semi-converted to the pop charms of his last album), but that mix is real pretty ...
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Just back from lunch.
I love the way that Public Address readers can not only turn Tha Hoodie into an intellectual debate, but somehow bring in Foucault ...
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Damian Christie went along to the Auckland launch of New Zealand Music Month -- the grown-up version with the cocktails, not the rock 'n' roll showcase the next night -- to quiz people about where it's at and where it's heading.
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If it's not impertinent to ask, is Media7 funded by NZOA?
No. We're produced out of the separate funding that the government gave TVNZ to produce content for the new digital channels.
Public Address Radio gets modest NZOA funding to produce a programme for Radio Live, but you'll have to take my word for it that that doesn't have an impact on my view.
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remember in the first few years of funding nz on air hadn't given the funding control over to radio programmers and did fund a much greater range of nz artists.
From 1991-99, the funding you're talking about didn't exist. It wasn't "handed over" to anyone after that. It simply wasn't there.
yes some of that stuff didn't get a lot of air play but that would be the second and most important part of nz on airs job, to get radio and tv to play this stuff. That was the crucial part of the whole endeavor. change radio not change us.
What do you think the Hit Discs, the radio pluggers, etc, did? I'm no fan of commercial music radio, but I think it's evident that its attitude has improved a lot in the past decade.
I think the time I realised it had changed was when I was in a shop and bleedin' More FM had Goldenhorse playing live-to-air during NZ Music Month. That band is now, obviously, mainstream, but it was a bNet act back then. And this month, Newstalk ZB has been doing interviews and live-to-airs. Freaky.
But I still don't get OpShop.
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John 'I Got Swiftboated' Kerry has jumped to Obama's defence in HuffPo about another outrageous smear
Nick! You need to try that again with the actual URL in there ...
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Today's pointless snark comes to you from John Drinnan:
Arts Minister Judith Tizard, music industry bureaucrats and assorted hangers-on donned their happy shoes recently for the start of the Music Month.
Days earlier, musos - or at least those with prospects for an international career - had started mourning the exit of the EMI managing director they say helped to put New Zealand music on the world map.
EMI's all-but-shutdown here is sad, but it has nothing to do with any government policy, and everything to do with its change of ownership last year and the global climate for big music. The idea that it means the end of international aspirations for New Zealand artists doesn't wash at all.
I'll be interested to see what Chris Caddick does next, although I expect there'll be a gardening-leave spell before he can do anything new.
Am I right in thinking there are opportunities looming for new and existing independent distributors?
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