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Has anyone had any good experiences with T-shirt printers for band promo's?? Any names/numbers/websites etc you can give me to recommend would be awesome. I have my own list...but I'm sure some of you know some people!! Ta!

Haha.

[http://www.mono211.com/content/releases/mtkmp189.html Malty Media - Bracken Bed EP]

I figure self-promotion is the way forward since we're going all Web 2.0. :p

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How Bizarre: From Otara Millionaire to bankrupt

Saturday June 17, 2006
By Simon Collins

His song How Bizarre was the biggest-selling New Zealand record ever, lifting Pauly Fuemana far from his Otara roots.

Between 1995 and 2000, his ironically named Otara Millionaires Club (OMC) label lived up to its billing - selling almost 4 million records worldwide and earning him, by one estimate, about $1.5 million.

But 10 days ago, he was judged bankrupt. His house on the North Shore and other assets have been sold, and Official Assignee David Harte is looking into how his continuing royalties can be used to repay his personal creditors.

His company - first named OMC Ltd, and later FFFF.com after the Fuemana family - is in liquidation. Liquidator Vivian Fatupaito concluded last year that directors Pauly and Kirstine Fuemana "lived extravagantly on the early royalty proceeds but that their lavish lifestyle had not contracted when the royalties began to diminish".

All the company's assets were sold in the year before it folded. Remaining creditors were owed $91,440.44 and got nothing back.

The Fuemanas told the liquidator that their company's collapse was due to falling royalties, Pauly Fuemana's "inability to progress his musical career", and their "commercial naivety".

Friends said this week that Fuemana felt ripped off in the years he spent promoting How Bizarre, and returned to New Zealand feeling "paranoid".

"He basically just became a hermit," said one friend.

Fuemana spent several years travelling the world. "He was overseas right up till about three years ago, still promoting How Bizarre," said co-writer Alan Jansson. "Even though it happened here 10 years ago, it was happening in countries like Brazil and South America way after the fact."

Older brother Phil Fuemana died last year, aged 41. His surviving brother Tony and sister Christina declined to comment on Pauly Fuemana's affairs yesterday.

Simon Grigg, whose label published the How Bizarre album, said on his website that he and Jansson had to sell the rights to the song to PolyGram (now Universal) to cover the costs of taking the song worldwide.

They "proceeded to mishandle and generally make an appalling dog's breakfast of the project and Pauly's career".

Universal Music NZ managing director Adam Holt declined to comment.

The records of the Official Assignee show that Kirstine Fuemana was judged bankrupt on July 13 last year and Pauly Fuemana suffered the same fate on June 7. He was described as living at a rented address in Beach Haven and was "currently employed".

Visited at the address, Mrs Fuemana said she did not know where her husband was.

Mr Harte said Fuemana had 10 working days to provide a statement of his financial position before the bankruptcy could be enforced.

"We advertise for other creditors and we look to see any income streams that we can look to pull into the bankruptcy."

Fuemana will be barred for three years from being a company director, managing a business or travelling overseas.

This song till gets air & tv play in germany & the netherlands.. it's like the beast that will not die

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DISCLAIMER: I know this topic has been discussed in previous forums but I tire of reading really old posts (from years ago).

I have decided to let loose on this topic&maybe because now I do not live in New Zealand anymore.

I must say that in its basic premise NZ on Air has been successful , that is it has got more NZ Music on radio/TV.... I have read all the NZ On Air self congratulatory statistics, airplay is up, the government is happy. Great.
But think about it again , woopee I mean who really cares...because most of the music is garbage music. Oh no people cry it sounds okay. My definition of garbage is whether this artist has even a chance of making it internationally. Do you rate them as international quality. Go through the latest funding lists&ask yourself& have you seen them live? Did they suck/ were they average of brilliant&be hard compare them to a really good act? Do they even play live? Potential international (with a bit more experience etc) ? Hmm yes they really aren't that good are they&well I grant maybe a minor proportion are. To be honest some of the artists funded would just get laughed of the stage overseas (if the audience bothered to stay at all).

What it all comes down to is that the whole mandate of the NZ On Air scheme is UNDERAMBITIOUS in its design (and resulting implementation) New Zealand should be aiming in part to create music that has the potential to make an impact at an international level& from the very grass roots of the scheme. Yes it encourages people to be of international quality at phase 4 but it is just silly to promote artists who are of mediocre talent give them a song on the radio so they will be forgotten in a year or two.

CONSIDE THE LOGIC

One thing to bear in mind is that the NZ market is small and that only a very few musicians can actually make a living out of appealing to the mass market (cos it's a very small mass market)&and surely that should be the goal making it so that being a musician can actually be a musicians job (rather than an in your spare time thing). (Note I am not a musician).

Given that the mainstream market is saturated here (ie most people funded don't even a hope of making a living out of it), why bother ???? (for airplay stats ??) The logic follows that in order to make more NZ Musicians successful you should invest in musicians that have a chance of making it overseas&
Continue to follow the logic&.. presumably the most marketable mainstream stuff (locally) has been found&& and well the lower grade (will only ever get one grant) type stuff doesn't have a hope in hell of making it overseas (or even locally) Therefore this chunk of funding should be moved to somewhere where it actually might be productive.

This would be towards artists that have a chance of capturing an international audience&this may be in more niche areas that NZ On Air may typically fund. Such music would not be by the current standards considered 'radio friendly' enough (lets not even get started on the appalling radio station quality in NZ!). The way it stands the definition of radio friendly in a funding decision is 'sounds like all the other stuff out there'. Hence imitation, and non-originality is actually encouraged&how perverse!!!
Of course my suggestion is a little riskier as the music world is extremely fickle but failure to make it, is not guaranteed (unlike with current policy) Think about it this way the big markets already have plenty of people doing mainstream music and they have money to do it bigger and better than $5000 (or $10000 now) NZ can&as such our stuff just looks plain cheap in comparison and big markets wont bother with it.

Instead why not encourage innovative sounds, fresh sounds. We have talent why not encourage it.

When you follow all this logic you really see that NZ on Air doesn't exist for the benefit of NZ Music (or musicians) at all it exists to keep policy makers happy. While the policy makers may have had good intentions of promoting New Zealand music, most of them don't have a clue. When was the last time you saw an MP down at the Kings Arms (forgive my ex-living in Auckland bias???) In fact does anyone involved in NZ on AIR/ commercial radio actually go to gigs?????? (ones they aren't promoting)

As a further criticism of NZ On Air.

A second issue is one of accountability. Who are the people from NZ On Air..what background do they have&for a publicly funded body their decision making process is? Who are these anonymous self-elected people that make the decisions? One thing that is just ridiculuous is that live performance seems to play no part in the decision making criteria. In this world artists still have to be able to perform to make it&.being able to record a 3 minute pop song demo is just not enough.

So why do I say all this? Well I believe NZ has a lot of talented musicians and really good bands who battle away in the underground with very little success or recognition & ironically some of these musicians might even have a chance overseas ... unfortunately they never seem to get much of the funding.

Frankly the whole NZ On Air Enterprise has an underambitious mentality in a global world New Zealand Music should be going for a global market, seeking to be innovative, making fresh sounds, but the way NZ on Air sets its funding priorities this wont be achieved.

I welcome any opinion on this. Personally I am NOT interested in people spouting minor counter examples but am interested in the philosophy and logic behind the whole thing

P.S. By complete accident I just saw the Batucada Sound Machine play at a festival in the UK, they took the audience by storm (probably no one there had ever heard their music before), with their innovative sound. Radio friendly¬ really&. Popular with the audience&hell yes&funded by NZ On Air...probably not.

PS 2 I have more to say but will get there in time.. not that anyone really wants to hear it probably but freedom of speech is a wonderful thing

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Heya, i'm not too up with the play, but i heard a course was startgin up around Wellington somewhere..?

any info?

cheers.

My favorite musican of all times, Jaz Coleman, frontman of the legendary Killing Joke has been living in NZ for a quite few year. He is always on about how much he enjoyes live in NZ and the lively music schene.
I am very interested in discivering some NZ rock, punk, metal and folk music...can anyone make recomendations?

http://myspace.com/sveinbjornsson
http://killjoker.blog.is

Has anyone bought a CD off soundsnz.com?
Because I wantto know if they're good at the whole delivery thig, and wont fuck up, and 'accidentally' steal all the money on me credit card.
Are they safe?

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Whatever happened to the lads in weta after they split up and left for oz? Any nu project maybe? I can't believe they split up after the great album called "geographica"...

Check it out,
This is our second EP, named "photophobia". To be released into this fine world 19th March.

Track list:

1. Individual
2. Photophobia
3. Forced to Feel
4. Break Free
5. Happy Now
6. Theory

It costs $7, lovingly recorded mixed mastered and packaged by the good folk at The Henderson Experience.

Release Show:
Saturday 9th April
Thistle Hall, Wellington.
Line up tbc, although including:
-Slowdance
-Spoken

Come along and check it out, or get in contact with me msn: slapjazz@hotmail.com to get hold of a copy of the EP

Track demos on our site http://www.thehendersonexperience.co.nz

Cheers guys, we're just a newish band down here in welly so we'd appreciate any feedback and what not

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OK there must surely be some guitarists here. I've made tabs for such songs as Fast times in Tahoe, Venus, Friend (both by the Feelers), exit to the city... first I want someone to give them to, or a site to put them on, and also if anyone could help me figure out the second solo for exit to the city or any other D4 tabs, or you could help me with lyrics, because I bought 6twenty before the lyrics were included, please drop me a line. Cheers all

In case my email doesnt get automatically displayed here somewhere its polksta@hotmail.com. Any help appreciated or if you just want the tabs it'd be nice to know that someone actually wants them...

The backlash has begun.....

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For the children of Liberia at The Cross Bar from 4pm and continuing in Zebos from 9pm.

Featuring The Sam Manzanza Band, Vital Sound, Valley Stompers, Los Andes, DJ Rainman, DJ Embe Beat, The Pukekos, Russel Self, Gran Prix, Ignorance, L K Ngatuere & Viva Latina, Grampa Moff, The Circus Machine and more.............

Should be an amazing night of live international entertainment and DJs with good company. See you there!

Cheers,

Tane McLeay

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SYDNEY AUSTRALIA: Ed St John, President and CEO, Warner Music Australasia, today announced the acquisition of Festival Mushroom Records (Australia and New Zealand).

Festival Mushroom Records was formed by News Ltd from the amalgamation of the operations of Festival Records Pty Ltd, Mushroom Records Pty Ltd and Mushroom Distribution Services (MDS). Festival Records has been operating in Australia and New Zealand since 1952 and has been part of News Ltd since 1961. Festival has often been referred to as the original home for rock and roll in Australia with the discovery and development of pioneer acts such as Johnny O'Keefe, The Delltones, Olivia Newton John, Peter Allen, Rolf Harris, The Bee Gees and Col Joye & the Joyboys.

Over the next 3 decades Festival Records became the pre-eminent record distribution company representing many international labels. In 1997 a new management team was brought in to Festival and the focus once more moved back to developing and recording Australian artists for the world market. Further international labels gravitated to Festival such as Gut, Almo, Fantasy and Rykodisc/Palm Pictures as well as the Walt Disney Company's catalogue of recordings, including the Hollywood Records and Mammoth imprints.

A key moment in the development of the company was the purchase of the final 50% of Mushroom Records (the original 50% had been bought in the early nineties). Melbourne-based Mushroom Records had become Festival's de facto A&R department, a domestic music powerhouse with a roster that included Paul Kelly, Split Enz, Skyhooks, Kylie Minogue, Jimmy Barnes, Hunters and Collectors and many others. Mushroom also had an impressive track record of attracting international licensors including Tommy Boy and Echo.

Festival and Mushroom have always been synonymous with Australian music and the combined entity has a fantastic catalogue of Australian recorded music and Australian artists. In recent years, under the stewardship of Managing Director Michael Parisi, FMR has forged a new identity with Australian and New Zealand signings such as George, Eskimo Joe, Scribe, Chloe Lattanzi, P-Money and Motorace. Combined with the success of license deals such as Alberts and Disney Hollywood, FMR has retained a clear position in the Australasian marketplace as a home of fresh local talent and innovative marketing.

Warner Music Australia has strong links with FMR. Not only does WMA distribute the label, but they recently appointed two former FMR executives to key positions in the organisation. Mark Ashbridge (former MD of FMR New Zealand) was recently appointed VP, Marketing and Promotions, Warner Music Australia; Michael Parisi (former MD of FMR Australia) was recently appointed to the role of President, A&R, Warner Music Australia - a position he takes up from January 1 2006. The acquisition of FMR by WMA/NZ rejoins Parisi and Ashbridge with their artist rosters and heralds the dawn of a new era of domestic artist development for Warner Music Australia and Warner Music New Zealand.

Commenting on the acquisition, Ed St John said; "We are absolutely delighted to acquire this iconic Australian music company. FMR and its foundation labels have been the home for Australian music since the dawn of our industry. Joined with Warner's own roster of local acts - which stretches from Thirsty Merc and Evermore through to The Whitlams, Cold Chisel and the feelers - and with the creative drive of Michael Parisi, this company will have a leading domestic music division. The growth and continued success of Warner Music Australia and New Zealand is going to be built around the development of a truly outstanding domestic music roster."

Adds Michael Parisi "This is a unique situation, to say the least. Having run FMR Australia as Managing Director, and having just accepted an offer to move over to Warner Music to become President of A&R, I now have the opportunity to effectively keep both jobs. I can continue to work with the many wonderful acts I signed to FMR whilst also working with Warners' roster of artists. I'm really looking forward to working with Ed and his team to integrate the two companies and join our artist rosters."

Warner Music Australia and New Zealand are subsidiaries of Warner Music International - a global creative family boasting many of the world's top recording artists and A&R executives. Via legendary labels such as Warner Bros., Sire, Atlantic, East West and Elektra, Warner Music is today the home of some of the biggest artists in the world: James Blunt, Michael Buble, Craig David, Green Day, Enya, Madonna, The Darkness, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Simple Plan, REM, Rob Thomas and many more. WMA/NZ is currently enjoying success in the local marketplace with chart and radio airplay results that are virtually unprecedented in the company's history.

The integration of Warner Music Australasia and FMR will take place through the closing months of 2005 and is subject to Warner obtaining an indication from the ACCC that it does not object to the deal. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and no announcement has yet been made regarding artist roster or staffing levels.

Lachie Rutherford, President, Warner Music Asia Pacific, comments "FMR is an important independent label. In making this transforming acquisition, Warner Music Australasia is well positioned for the years ahead."

Paul-Rene Albertini, Chairman and CEO, Warner Music International, comments: "Warner Music is committed to the development of the strongest roster of English language repertoire in the world, whether it comes from the US, the UK, Canada or Australasia. In hiring Michael Parisi and acquiring FMR, Warner Music Australasia plugs into a global A&R matrix that is committed to developing global careers. This purchase takes an already strong company and makes it even stronger."

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wow everyone, I came accross this new Samoan rapper, that I think everyone should try and check out. He has a really awsome flow, and he is from Cali or Hawaii, I dont remember.

Anyway, his name is slo-mo you can check his song "falling in love" here http://www.soundclick.com/bands/0/eyesoulatedmindzmusic.htm

I wont say he's better than Kap, but he could give Kap a run for da money. Let me know what you guys think and if you agree with me.

I been search all over the net to find out the name of the song or the singer who sing the song in the Telecom Ad, where the girl in London received an picture email from her mum, and she enlarge it a

I'm very very new to the guitar and want to know the really simple tabs to the Flight of the Conchords theme.

According to the herald this morning, the new Tourism New Zealand campaign is using a song originally written by a German band, then made famous by an Australian band, and re-re-recorded by Pluto. From the article:
In the background the song Forever Young pushes Tourism New Zealand's message that we are "the youngest country in the world".

Hello, I'm from Liverpool in the UK on holiday here for a few months and just wanted to know where to go to listen to some rock in Auckland..!

Wellington alternative 2 piece “The Great Hoax” has just released the“Sleazy Freak” music video on to youtube.com and the track is also for sale on amplifier.co.nz for $1.99.