Music News - NZ Music Month comes to Sky's Documentary Channel
11 March 2007 - 0 Comments
New Zealand Music Month comes to Sky this year on the Documentary Channel with a season of four documentaries focusing on key local music stories scheduled to screen throughout May.
Featured weekly at 9pm Saturday, over four weeks the celebration of NZ Music Month offers a diverse set of documentaries on musical artists and genres – each representing a unique and exceptional story, but all of them steeped in New Zealand popular music history.
Heavenly Pop Hits: the Flying Nun Story, a feature-length documentary celebrating the twenty first anniversary of innovative New Zealand record label Flying Nun, kicks off the Music Month programming on May 6th. The independent label dominated New Zealand’s music landscape for much of the 1980s, achieving international critical acclaim for its raw and uncompromising approach to recording along the way.
May 13 sees the world television premiere of Peter Jackson collaborator, Costa Botes’ film Struggle No More. Selected for the 2005 New Zealand International Film Festival, this feature-length film traces the ups and downs in the forty-year career of the Windy City Strugglers, New Zealand’s greatest unknown band.
On May 20 film-maker Geoff Murphy’s Blerta Re-Visited tells the story of one of New Zealand’s most unique musical troupes. In the summer of 1971-72 the nation was plastered with brightly coloured posters announcing ‘BLERTA is coming!’ ‘Bruno Lawrence’s Electric Revelation and Traveling Apparition’, was an ensemble of some of the country’s most talented musicians, actors and film-makers on a revolutionary charge to change what at the time was seen as a culturally challenged New Zealand.
Rounding off the Documentary Channel’s NZ Music Month season of documentaries is 3 Chords and the Truth: The Anika Moa Story. When Maori New Zealander singer/songwriter Moa was signed to a major American record at just eighteen years of age it seemed like a dream come true. This film travels down this life-transforming path with Moa while exposing the cut-throat ruthlessness of the music industry. Behind the pretty faces and whirlwind tours lies an inspiring story of a remarkable talent and undefeatable spirit, all set to a dreamy soundtrack.
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