i'm just confused that Paddy Free and Dimmer get seemingly random amounts.... odd...
But i think its a damn good list... though when i read about FFD getting $20,000 to tour the capitalist in me did kinda go.. well hold on... didn't they make some ridiculous amount of money in the last few weeks and can't they look after themselves now? And then the socialist in me said O well, they've got kids and families to feed too, and i'm sure they're still struggling for money... and then the capitalist said well sure, but why am i paying for their jaunts over to the UK so they can get famous and more rich, and then the socialist said, yeah but kirk you've taken money from the government for the same purpose, so you're just being a hypocrite...

// though when i read about FFD getting $20,000 to tour the capitalist
// in me did kinda go.. well hold on... didn't they make some ridiculous
// amount of money in the last few weeks and can't they look after
// themselves now?

keywords being "in the last few weeks". I'm pretty sure the applications for this round would have gone in at least a month or so back (or further, Blink? Scott?), so they would have been making a submission with no knowledge of their impending windfall from having a #1 album.

yeah. fucken stoked. makes things alot easier...though with my stupidly big plans $15k is still a drop in the ocean... aw...maybe a cup of water...or a decent sized bowl.

// why not just make realistically accomplishable plans?

was putting out a CD and magazine every month and touring a couple of bands around the whole country every month realistically acomplishable? I had a lot of doubters, so i guess not. If I was to do the same thing again it would be boring. I want a challenge. haha... My vision seems so ridiculous to me right now...but so did the first year of low hum when i thought of that.

haha. i do enjoy your quips and set-ups.

cheers lads.

man, that's the most kickass news I've heard all year. congratulation!

Well let's have a look at a taxpayer funded muscians Monday

Wednesday
7am - Wake up 'cos my inconsideration flatmates are noisy as they prepare to go to work.
7.10am - Go back to sleep
10am - Wake up, make a cup of coffee (use flatmates coffee & Milk as the dole does get payed into my KIWIBANK account until Thursday (aka beer, fags and pot day)
10.30am - go back to bed
Midday - get up and watch SKYTV (paid for by my flatmates)
2pm - Go to Real Groovy and look in the bargain bins for an hour or so
4pm - Go visit the people at the New Zealand Music Commission (Free Coffee) and complain about other peoples bands and talk about the amazing recording I've done in my bedroom at 4am this morning (waking up my flatmates who have to go to work at 8am)
6pm - Go to girlfriends house and eat her and her flatmates food
7.30pm - Quick shag with girlfriend
8pm - Off to The Killing room to practise
11pm - Go to PR bar with band members, drink beer,
1am - Go home, start home recording in bedroom
3am - go to sleep

// 8pm-11pm - Off to The Killing room to practise
// 1am-3am - Go home, start home recording in bedroom

so on your laughable 'typical' muso day, he/she still does 5 hours of specifically music-related work? probably comparable (if not better), then the amount of 'real' work a white collar office worker might put in during a 9-5er?

//Well let's have a look at a taxpayer funded muscians Monday

Wow you have no clue.

I'd say probably 90% of the musos I know have either a part-time or a full time job on top of the music that they are doing. Care to enlighen us as to which 'typical tax-payer funded musician' you got your information from?

Basically these groups are trying to get to a state where they can survive from what they do - much the same as all small business owners.

If we want to talk about money for nothing then lets talk about the masses of cash that the government sink into useless sporting events like the Americas Cup - lazy f*cking sailors sitting round mooching off our hard earned tax-dollars (please note my sarcasam).

// Holmes

actually, Ralston does seem to be doing pretty well at weeding out the overpaid talking heads at TVNZ: Holmes is gone, Dick Long is gone, Eric Young is gone. Judy's still on an insane salary, but once she goes (next year?), hopefully we can get back to a state of affairs where the autocue readers on the news are earning something not totally out of kilter with the salaries of the actual journalists who do all the work and get the words for them to read in the first place.

And all those DIY and reality shows! How cheap must they be to make!

"so on your laughable 'typical' muso day, he/she still does 5 hours of specifically music-related work? probably comparable (if not better), then the amount of 'real' work a white collar office worker might put in during a 9-5er?"

too true. don't make me pull out the pxts of what i do all day at work.. you'd be disgusted (and yet incredibly impressed.. eh jessie?)

//5 hours' work.. I did almost 6 today, I'll have you know!!

Are you feeling unwell??

// $150,000 is a pittance to the government

indeed. As Scott points out above, there are far worse 'excesses' perpetrated by the government (America's Cup, for example) than forking out a few thousand here and there to some creative enterprises that might not have otherwise got off the ground. I'm quite happy for my tax to be used to help Dimmer out. In fact, my tax bill from last year would cover Dimmer, Lindon Puffin, and a good whack of the Sugarlicks grants. There ya go lads. My treat. I'm sure there are other nzmusic members who likewise wouldn't be unhappy about their taxes being used in this way.

// he said WINZ

aha! yes, I heard that one too. The last few interviews I've heard/seen him do have been really good actually. Very funny and entertaining (bro).

And vote National if you want Winston Peters in the Cabinet.

I caught a headline on Morning Report about a plan by the Greens to write off student debt. Apparently they want want to decrease a persons loan debt a little bit every year they work in NZ. I never thought I'd vote Green but this has me interested and I'll be interested to hear how they plan to implement it.

Someone once told me that you generally always get turned down on your first two applications, funnily enough this happened to me as well. Howver, during those first two applications I went out and did shit anyway, so by the time It came to applying the third time they had seen I did what I meant to do. I guess this is how it works for alot of the people applying. They keep all the past applications you put in in a file (embarrisngly enough as I discovered... shit I'm terrible at these things)

13k !!?? sweet jesus... why you could be sitting in spain sucking back pina coldas in no time blink!

someone cut me a sweet piece of that selecting action!

Yes. Via email.

I'll put them together the bomb disc and only charge 'em 5k!

Someone call my agent.... "you there!, call my people and have them call his people, and organise lunch"! ... "blink... get snapping that camera and organise a C.D launch tour... pronto"!

"Jess!.. look important and call someone... tell them you have something that's about to become 'so hot right now' , and that they'd be a fool to miss the boat"!

true jess...
do you know who features on this little disk ??