NZ Music Month - Rocked The Nation
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:36 pm

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100 NZ MUSIC MOMENTS

Satellite Media and C4 celebrate New Zealand Music Month with the launch of the most comprehensive music countdown of all time.

Rocked The Nation counts down the 100 most seminal moments in NZ music in a six week series starting on Monday May 12th at 8.30pm.

Hosted by former ‘Radio With Pictures’ presenter Karyn Hay, Rocked The Nation will take viewers on a ride through the top 100 moments in Kiwi music, revisiting the events and the songs that have had the greatest influence on not just our music, but also our lives. Rest assured New Zealand’s music archives have been scoured, researchers have worked late into the night, and the greatest music minds of our generation have been spoken with to come up with what is a definitive look at our music history.
Rocked The Nation features interviews with New Zealand’s most influential musicians, including Neil and Tim Finn, Scribe, Supergroove, Chris Knox, Hayley Westenra, Sharon O’Neill, Moana Maniapoto, True Bliss, Dawn Raid and many more. Plus, the show will bring you never before seen archive footage from some of the most pivotal moments in NZ music history.

Highlights from the series include:

- Firsts: our first number one, the first recorded NZ song and the first ever video banned from TV!
- International successes: Grammy’s, international record deals, top of the charts worldwide - we talk to those who made it big over there.
- The Influential: musicians that spawned imitators, started a scene and inspired new sounds.
- The headlines: newsworthy riots, bankruptcy and drug use.
- Anecdotes: what goes on tour stays on tour – not for us. We include the famous, the infamous and most newsworthy moments.

Stories told on camera for the very first time, the controversial, the unbelievable and the downright shocking.

Episode One Synopsis - Moments 100-85:

In Episode One, we take a look at the iconic New Zealand music video show that was a part of everyone’s Saturday night; the New Zealanders who sold over 600,000 CDs in Asia – but made nothing for their troubles; and find out who had the power to bring Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and The Smith’s Johnny Marr to Auckland to perform for five concerts?

Episode One also features interviews with musical characters who comprise of a ‘who’s who’ in NZ music including Savage, YDNA & Brotha D from Dawn Raid, Neil Finn, Daniel Keighley (of the infamous Sweetwater’s 99), Paddy Free, Richard Driver, Wayne Mason & Barry Saunders of the Warratahs, NZ’s youngest chart topper David Curtis, Blindspott, When the Cat’s Away, Concord Dawn, Ardijah and Steriogram.

Produced by the award winning team at Satellite Media and directed by Mitchell Hawkes, considered to be one of New Zealand’s foremost directors specialising in music, Rocked The Nation is a compelling, informative, iconic, credible and entertaining series that will lure you into the heady world of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll for an hour every week culminating in our number 1 NZ Music Moment.

A countdown event not to be missed - Rocked the Nation premieres Monday May 12th at 8.30pm on C4!

Rocked The Nation - 6 x 60 min episodes.

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