I'm interested to know what people think the reason is that the music on TV here only seems to be from NZ or USA, with minor UK input, and virtually no Aussie stuff. Seems weird when the Aussies are our closest neigbours and they have some great bands. Or do you think I'm wrong, and Oz does get fair airplay?
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I haven't forgiven them for Jason ...
I haven't forgiven them for Jason Donovan, Kylie and that other motherfucker they pawned off on us in the 80's.
Was it Craig McLachlan? I hated that ...
Was it Craig McLachlan? I hated that prick. He was another one of those Ramsey St actors-turned-singers. He was responsible for the awful Mona
"Tell you Mona what I wanna do
I’ll build a house next door to you
Can I see you sometime
We can go kissing through the blind
When you come out on the front
Listen to my heart go bumpity bump
I need you baby and that’s no lie
Without your love I’d surely die"
Sweet mother of god man, why would you ...
Sweet mother of god man, why would you do that?
satire?...
satire?
I did it so you can sing that sweet ...
I did it so you can sing that sweet wonderful song in your head... one last time.
Go on, you loved it...
Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Motorace and ...
Powderfinger, Grinspoon, Motorace and 28 Days all have had rather big hits here over the past couple of years but thats about all I can think of at the mo
NZ plays fuck all Aussie acts!and not ...
NZ plays fuck all Aussie acts!and not to many good ones at that!
We should have some sort of Australian quoter here and get them to have a NZ quoter.
But monkeys will proberly fly out of my butt!
They proberly will....
They proberly will.
Doesn't CER have some sort of bearing ...
Doesn't CER have some sort of bearing on this? I may be recalling this incorrectly, but if the NZ govt was to institute a mandatory quota for NZ music, then under CER Australian acts would qualify for the quota. Noizy? Bert?
yup - your'e completely correct ...
yup - your'e completely correct there.
under the so-called 'blue skies' closer economic relations agreement, nz music counts towards the compulsory australian quota ... even if they don't live in melbourne.
if a compulsory quota was put in place here, the same would apply for australian music ...
I think, technically, that Australian ...
I think, technically, that Australian content already qualifies as local content under the CER agreement, although no specific protocols are in place to actually lay out how this works for music quotas (unlike TV & Film, where Australia does have quota systems in place, and the kiwis have been astute at getting their wares included in those quotas).
It was actually a regular point made when the whole quota issue was running hot a couple of years ago, and there was much talk of a NZ-only system being in contravention of the terms of CER. Luckily, since the quota is 'voluntary', I think this particular bone of contention went by the by.
But, yes, I suspect that if cunning music-programmers wanted to inflate their 'NZ' radio-play figures, they could easily include all aussie acts as part of the quota, and claim CER as their justification.
ah, too slow me......
ah, too slow me...
oh, and I didn't realise OZ had a ...
oh, and I didn't realise OZ had a music quota system. Very nice. I hope the NZMIC and NZ On Air are pushing plenty of product into Australian Radio Programmers sticky hands...
Well, we see a lot of Pacifier......
Well, we see a lot of Pacifier...
Heh.. at work Windows Media Player ...
Heh.. at work Windows Media Player keeps throwing up all this crap at me from (I think?) ninemsn.com.au. The first thing that comes up is about "Hot Australian Acts", listing Pacifier, Sophie Monk and a couple of others, with a nice big photo of the boys.
aussie bands don't tend to promote ...
aussie bands don't tend to promote themselves over here that much, most of them aim towards the us/uk instead
I reckon it would be good if Triple J ...
I reckon it would be good if Triple J aired in NZ. I like listening to them on the net, but the sound quality is pretty average.
JJJ doesn't rate very well in ...
JJJ doesn't rate very well in australia and I doubt it would do much here. I drove from Sydney to Melbourne with no CD player, only JJJ for 12 hours (because Australian radio outside Sydney / Melbourne is really really really bad) and it drove me nuts...it was not good. Same songs over and over and bad ones too. If you think blinspott are derivative and unoriginal you should some of the crap they have.