Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Another high profile voice of dissent from his facebook page linking to Vicki's article in support.
- Chris Matthews :that would be the Chris Matthews who said in 2009:
Q: What is your opinion of funding avenues and support networks like the NZ Music Commission, NZ On Air, Creative NZ? Have they been as helpful to you as you would have liked? Do you think they represent the country well and talent-spot effectively?
A: Brilliant! Great! Fantastic! There would possibly be bugger all local content on commercial radio and on TV in this country if it wasn't for the vision of a few individuals a few years back, to help us poor starving musicians out and fund our videos and albums and whatnot, particularly NZ On Air.
And it's kinda sad that we needed a quota system to force our commercial radio stations (and I stress the word "commercial", 'cos local student/community radio has always been brilliant at driving down the road-less-travelled) to actually play our bands but it was necessary: it's good to remind younger people that those same radio stations, only 20-something years ago, would NOT play Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over until it was a hit overseas! Probably the most radio-friendly local song ever written, by Neil Finn who'd had loads of hits for years with his iconic Split Enz songs, and they STILL wouldn't play it until it was quantified by offshore success - welcome to the cultural cringe that was the "Noo Zillund" of the 70s and 80s. (And aren't you glad these days, kids, that not only can you get your song into the charts quite easily but also have some advertising/TVNZ-promotions guru get it on high rotate on telly within weeks of its release, peddling virtually anything that's available to sell to the drooling public? Believe me, I know where bands make the most money with their songs in this country and it ain't from selling albums).
Anyway, I think the Headless Chickens (and loads of other bands over the years) have been very well served by NZ On Air and the Music Commission but I'd be happy to get a bit more funding from anyone! Let's do lunch...! My people will talk to your people...!
reflecting on his 2005 grant for the Robot Monkey Orchestra Map of Love performance (music by Chris, words by some chap Dylan Thomas, whose estate must be raking it in now!) which became a CD (which I believe was funded in 2007...)
...and don't forget the Headless Chickens got their big recording leg-up by winning the Rheineck Rock Award in the '80s
- is there a current corporate equivalent of this?
C4 maybe? -
How about a pool of funds that could be a real random arts lottery (of smaller amounts)
- a second tier for those other than the usual suspects/applicants...
Could also be tied to other incubator projects like RockQuest and Play it Strange...
a kinda quo vadis, quid pro quo thang
- loosely: where are you heading? here's a grant (or something) to produce something to get ya on yer way (encouragement) ...There also seems to be the equivalent of a Moore's Law going on - it feels like the more mediums artists/musicians have access to people through (and that is what is all about), the thinner the spread and penetration - signal to noise and all that -
Also a lot of this is predicated on the "audience/masses" being interested in what the artist has to offer (or at least willing to give it a go)... whether in a live setting or on radio, TV or net... there are many other distractions...There is no one easy solution, but people need their creatives (artists/shamans), even if "civilised society" sometimes forgets this...
So keep on working, with friends/ cooperatives, act local, be constructive - and humble - good fortune may follow (thanks Cookie!)
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All three losers of the British general election are blathering about the need for stable government.
Well they have the Straw men for it...
or were they talking about Animal Farm?
3 legs, Good? Bad?Also if they want to bale the country out,
it's no great shift from stable to stale, mate...
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Chris - I totally got the Medici patronising thang - good riposte - poor Russell has taken a beating today and grabbed the wrong end, but nobly. Interesting that the Medici crest has a spray of Jaffas just like the new Auckland logo....
but I digress...Q: What it is about the music biz that spawns so many embittered "failures and rejects".
A: I'd previously thought Jody Lloyd was the sole example, I have no stake in all this. Just thinking of the kids....Not getting you here though, I've always found Jody Lloyd to be part of the solution , not the problem - he just gets on does what he wants, (and usually very well!) whatever anyone else may think, with an impressive work ethic and social conscience, I'd put him up there as an aspirational model rather than a bleater... or have I taken you the wrong way?
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Alone, Pope Julius II pratonized some of the greatest decorative art in known history. Just one man. Sure he had helpers...
ya could say we are off our Med(ici)s...
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off-thread aside II...
Another commonsense sensation!
Forget the creaky Greek economy, at last a call for a certain Middle East nation to be tasked on clarifying its unclear nuclear statusIt's up to you not to heed the Roundup©...
Hell at this rate even a story like this might make people think a little deeper and longer about food production techniques...Now back to the Brit cartoon caper Tory Story: Pollarity Flip ...
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off-thread aside...
Commonsense returns to Little Britain
News today from our own Little Britain - a.k.a. Christchurch - Panel throws out Arts Centre planOne down, now to see the mere Bob Parker off...
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Tympanometry for the devil?
actually on closer examination it appears it was, um, something else
Must be the representative from the British Satanist Party, he looks like Anton La Vey, but he's dead!
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the animuswell hillbillies...
Charlie Brooker just described Gordon Brown as looking like "a haunted elephant". Brilliant.
more bestial(hilar)ity?
but if he can form a gov't with Clegg
(the wild kingmaker)
he could be a "possessed pachydem"!
...otherwise he'll be leaving on a Brown Bier! -
is the door half-open or half-shut?
Oh, quite. Plenty of subtext in that.
a lot hinges on this...
Britain is in a jamb...