Just a heads-up that The Checks will be featured tonight (Friday) on Close Up - TV1.
Show is from 7-7.30, and they will be in part 3 (after second ad break)
oh dear - clearly i meant "hard to overstate"
what a george w moment.....
i live in kingsland and the reception, to my suprise, was great... and that was using bunny ears on a shit old tv...
as for the above dissection, i think hats off to anyone who can start a music channel, and actually get it on air. hard to underestimate how difficult that is, and how many people/companies must be in sync for it to happen. they are rolling out over the next few weeks, so song keys would surely be on the way. I'm confident that in a few weeks they'll be up to speed - and power to them i say.
sounds like someone overheard a few conversations at a party and threw the bits they remember together in one almightly mess of random and pretty much irrelevant statements.
like when you're a kid at school and you try and join in with the cool people talking in front of you in the tuck shop line.
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."
So were the guys he was punching out at, as they tried to get him up the stairs, security or plain clothes cops? From what I saw he didn't look like he wanted to leave.
being a copy and pasted press release, is 'you' the person who posted it, or one of those mentioned in it?
95bFM is very pleased to announce some exciting new developments in our weekday Breakfast show. From August 1 two will become three when Camilla and Noelle are joined by long serving 95bFM DJ Jason ‘Rockpig’ Hall.
Nutritionists advise a big breakfast to start your day, and so it is our great pleasure to add a little premium bacon to your plate. Rockpig comes to the Breakfast team in the role of studio anchor. 95bFM listeners will be well familiar with his particular set of skills – honed through many years as host of bFM’s Friday Drive, and through countless gigs as a musician and live DJ.
Camilla, when not on deck with Jason, is now free to get out and about and spill her muesli, fruit and honey-soaked acidophilus upon unsuspecting Aucklanders. Hear her staking out live acts, scoping events, crashing junkets, sniffing out gigs, stumbling into openings and bailing closings as she takes bFM Breakfast to the street. She’ll be climbing into bedrooms, busting into kitchens and slinking through the cafés and neighbourhoods of Auckland’s movers and shakers. Look-out anyone she decides warrants a knock on the door or an early morning wake-up call.
Completing your Breakfast experience is your delicious Irish Coffee, Miss Noelle McCarthy, continuing her half-hourly essential news bulletins. Look out for the all new media and political round-up summing up the week that was every Friday.
Listeners will get all the regular extras and condiments they know and love – but look out for some exciting new additions coming to the menu very soon…
The 95bFM Breakfast – for those of you that like a bit of everything on your plate.
Tuck in!
in all honesty no.. i guess having a mac with itunes totally loaded up, i'm liking the idea of everything being easy and compatible..
having said that, if anyone has advice or experiences to pass on it'd be greatly appreciated...
Apologies if this is inappropriate, but being such savvy muso types I figure someone must have got an iPod recently. Anyway one point me in the direction of a good price? or somewhere where they've throwing in free cradles or anything?
thanks
nah it's car inspired - Chrysler Valiant Regal - I a have a 1970 VG Coupe..
wow.
i may be mistaken, but i think a previous post mentioned you living in Oz, rope? I hope so. Otherwise your grasp of Shayne would be embarrassingly sparse for someone that posts about new zealand music so much.
Any supposed serious musician?
I don't even know where to start.
who ACCEPTS best fox award, has what? 'transcended the humility of being JUST A DRUMMER in a band'?
Assuming you DO live in OZ, and don't follow (read: have a clue) what goes on here, here's some background. Shayne Carter has two very fine qualities. The first is that he is, truely (no hyperbole here) someone that has contributed a huge amount to music. He was in bands that were more exciting and relevant than most top 40 acts from when he was a teenager. Double Happys, Bored Games, and of course Straitjacket Fits. The thing is, he did it on his own terms. Call it arrogance if you're the jealous type, or call it confidence and integrity in ones own ability. Or even just plane having any integrity at all.
A drummer? Shit man open your eyes. He plays guitar and writes songs, and is one quater of one the best live acts you could hope to see (keep hoping, i hear they may even do a semi tour of oz, if you're hard up i'll buy you a ticket, you need to see them). When he broke up Straitjacket Fits, it wasn't for any reason other than he wasn't comfortable with it any more. Music has always been the most important thing to him, the fact that they could of(no really: they could've) rode the wave even higher than it got is testament to his (some would say misguided) need to remain relevant and credible.
It's been emulated in Dimmer since. He went in a whole new direction, that satasfied him creatively, and was celebrated then too.
The other thing that seperates him from people like, (too many to list) is that publicity is a bad word. He hates it, not in the type of way that bands these days will sometime pretend to get cred. he genuinely doesn't enjoy basking in his success (not that he'd ever say success!). to interview him for the recent reunion tour was, really hard, he didn't do any other interviews and that I got him was, for me, a really nice thumbs up.
he would have been as uncomfortbale accepting male fox, as he was accepting best album a few years back, when he said "thanks" and nervously shuffled off stage. His gracious acceptance of both awards the other night, to me showed a guy realising he'd made a difference to many peoples lives, and trying as hard as he could to show how he appreciated it, without fobbing awards off in a way that might have been considered 'cooler' or 'arrogant. You really can't win.
Fair game for gossip? Not really. He doesn't court publicity, like the best ones, publicity courts him.
A choice he made in the 90's? In the interests of saving time, fuck you.
That you (not only) thought he was the drummer, is really the icing on the cake.
so you can either come back with some witty word-play as a reply that misses the point ( like so many others on this site) or maybe have a read and a look about, and leave the tabloid bullshit for nzgirl.co.nz .
i can't believe i just spent over an hour explaining something to you that you probably don't care about. At least it lasted almost entirely the length of the Straitjacket Fits best of album.
actually i'm not finished. don't be the type to say you're not into spreading that shit when you're with people who aren't, then go and post it for kicks/site cred/fun.
if parts of that sentence don't relate to you, take the bits that do, and quietlyshut the fuck up.
considering how small this town is, and even if you don't consider how small this town is, i reckon that's a pretty shitty thing to be posting about on these forums.
are shayne and heather selling their stories to womens mags?
ha! must have been a drunk birdie, or you're so far ahead of the game that you knew before I did! From what I saw in the press release, they're going to advertise all the positions in a few months. I don't know if they have any firms plans, but certanly I haven't been approached. Very curious as to who your birdie is...
worst birthday was at the end of what should have been a 6 week trip through the states. i freaked out and came home like a cry baby after 6 days. left the us on feb 4th, arrived nz feb 6th
missed my 18th birthday (clearly the 5th) by crossing the date line.
Programming Changes Announced For National Radio
Tuesday, 24 May 2005, 2:00 pm
Press Release: Radio New Zealand Limited
Programming Changes Announced For National Radio:
Radio New Zealand Chief Executive, Peter Cavanagh, has announced
changes to National Radio programming and on air presentation to
be implemented later this year. The announcements follow a six month
internal programming review involving all Radio New Zealand staff.
Commenting on the programme changes, Peter Cavanagh noted the
importance of the Radio New Zealand Charter in the long term
planning for the network.
“ The review of National Radio programming and presentation has
provided a valuable opportunity to examine whether, as a public
service broadcaster, the network could further improve on its
Charter objective to be relevant to the society it serves. In a
society that is rapidly changing, Radio New Zealand needs to
reaffirm its position as a dynamic, relevant and contemporary
public service broadcaster, and these changes will help us to do so.“
“The Research International All New Zealand Radio Survey 2004
showed that National Radio was New Zealand’s number one radio
station in terms of nationwide audience market share among
people aged 15 years and over, but there is no room for
complacency and I want to reinforce the fact that our focus
in this six month process has been to further improve the
sound of National Radio for existing and potential new audiences.“
Key points from the programming review include an overhaul of the
National Radio music policy, new programming, and the creation of a
new Radio New Zealand website to provide up to date information and
audio on demand facilities to enhance what listeners can hear on air.
* Birdcalls:
The famous Radio New Zealand birdcalls have been retained and
will be expanded and integrated in a new project which will
build a sound library of field recordings reflecting the social,
environmental and cultural diversity of New Zealand.
* Weekday Mornings:
There are no major changes planned for National Radio’s premier
news and current affairs programmes Morning Report and Nine to
Noon with Linda Clark though some minor adjustments will be made
to content and presentation within existing formats.
Weekday and weekend afternoons will see the biggest changes:
* Weekday Afternoons:
The format for weekday afternoon programming will change with
a new weekday afternoon programme which builds on the regional
focus of the existing In Touch with New Zealand programme. The
magazine and lifestyle format will be retained and, contrary
to recent media speculation, it will not become a talk-driven
news programme.
The programme will be presented from Radio New Zealand’s new
Auckland studios. Wayne Mowat continues to play an important
role as the anchor of “In Touch With New Zealand” which will
focus on special outside broadcasts from throughout the country
and which will feed into the new regional afternoon programme.
Wayne's Music moves from weekday afternoons but continues as a
valuable part of the nostalgia listening theme of Saturday and
Sunday evenings.
National Radio’s top rating evening news programme Checkpoint
will be extended from one hour to two.
* Saturday Afternoons:
Home Grown is retained as the title for a new expanded music
programme, which will showcase New Zealand contemporary music
over three hours each Saturday afternoon. National Radio is
not reducing its long-established commitment to the promotion
of New Zealand music.
* Sunday Afternoons:
In place of the present weekday afternoons programme “What’s Going
On?”, a new 3 and a half hour books, arts and movies programme will
be developed for Sunday afternoon with dedicated host Lynn Freeman.
* Timetable for Change:
Emphasising that changes were about growth, Peter Cavanagh
said no staff positions will be lost and new positions will be
established. New ideas and programming reflect the needs and
interests of diverse National Radio audiences.
Several new jobs have been created at National Radio and these
will be advertised with the intention of having production and
presentation teams in place by early August to develop and
pilot the new programmes.
A revised National Radio programme schedule will be launched
on Saturday 17th September.
- ENDS
slight correction, headliners fell through, but a story will be on TV1 'Tonight' at 10.30
no mate, i went thursday, it was as above...
in fact i'm going tonight too!
is it online anywhere? would any nice bugger scan it for curious of the uk?