Music News - NZ Music Month Highlights - Week 3
14 May 2007 - 0 Comments
It is Monday 14th of May - Day #14 of NZ Music Month 2007!
Kiwis’ love affair of local music continued during the first week of NZ Music Month, with sales of albums by NZ artists up nearly 30%! Hayley Westenra held her spot at #1 on the Official NZ Top 40 Albums, extending her substantial lead over the nearest competition, while new records by Adi Dick and 48May entered the chart. Radio airplay was up as well, helped by the fact that Kiwi artists took out the top three spots on the RadioScope100 with the most-played songs on our airwaves last week - ‘Maybe’ by OpShop, ‘Shadowfeet’ by Brooke Fraser and ‘Crawl’ by Atlas heading off all international rivals. Meanwhile new songs by local artists with already proven radio track records – ‘Albertine’ by Brooke Fraser, ‘Never Let You Go’ by Evermore and ‘Nothing's More Real’ by The Feelers - all make their debut on the RadioScope NZL Top 40. On the RadioScope Alternative Chart, the bNet radio stations continue their love affair with The Brunettes who notch up their fourth week at #1 with new single ‘Her Hairagami Set.’
So the month is off to a great start! And today is a big day for local releases. Out today is Pine ‘Twelve Hour Collision EP,’ Fur Patrol ‘Long Distance Runner,’ The Managers ‘Take It or Leave It’ and Lindon Puffin ‘Show Pony’.
This Saturday the Music Managers Forum has got together a panel of speakers with international experience to hit the road for the HOW DO I GET MY MUSIC OVERSEAS SEMINARS. On the panel there is band managers David Benge and Tom Dalton; NZ on Air Music Manager Brendan Smyth; International Manager at NZ Music Commission, Gary Fortune and General Manager of NZ Music Commission Cath Andersen. In addition, the sessions will be chaired by the head of Music Managers Forum - Teresa Patterson. The seminars are all free and open to the public… so pop along. 19 May: 2-4pm, Bar Bodega, Wellington / 20 May: 2-4pm, Dux de Lux Lounge, Christchurch / 21 May: 6-8pm, ReFuel, Dunedin / 22 May: 6-8pm, APRA offices, Auckland.
This year the Kiwi line up for the ZM Live Lounge is Bigger, Badder and LOUDER than ever. 48 May, Opshop, Annabel Fay, Pluto, Blindspott, Sarah Brown, Goodnight Nurse, The Feelers, The Electric Confectionaires & The Mint Chicks will all be performing live. You can listen to ZM to hear the gigs or you can download your favourite LIVE tracks from the iTunes New Zealand Store.
Juice TV has gone hard with a huge number of kiwi artists popping into the office for a jam. An artist will be shown every day at 8pm, 11pm, 8am 11am and 3pm. This Thursday kicks off with Luke Thompson, followed by Autozamm, Electric Confectionaires, Carly Binding & Boh Runga, OpShop, Kimbra, Lucid 3, Miriam Clancy, The Have, Paul McLaney & Age Pryor & Tim Guy, Goodnight Nurse, 48 May, SJD, Fur Patrol and an All Star Salute to the 70s finishes up the month on the 31st of May.
Amplifier is hosting a NZ Music Month Quiz which is running for the entire month and is split up into four parts of 10 questions each, with a lovely prize pack for the five biggest NZ music geeks. Pop along to www.amplifier.co.nz to check it out.
This Saturday at ReFuel, Dunedin check out ‘Basement Cuts - Nice Beats for Nice People’. The show stars Central Records boss, and one of New Zealand's best all around producer and DJ, Oakley Grenell (O.G). Along for the ride comes the tweaked hip-hop cinematics of Central's latest signing Poncho San Pedro, from whom you can expect to see big things in the very near future.
Also in Dunedin is Luke Hurley who as part of his nationwide tour is playing this Friday, and Karen Hunter’s final two dates of her 47 date tour at Shanghai Lils on Saturday 19th May and Leigh Sawmill on Sunday 20th May.
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