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20 June 2003 - 0 Comments
Wrapping Up The Funding Year...
The latest NZ On Air funding round (on 18/19 June) was the last round for the 2002/2003 funding year. Here are the June round results plus a bit of a wrap up for the year:
Phase Four International Marketing:
NZ On Air have done four Phase Four International Marketing projects so far this funding year, they are:
- Bic Runga - 'Beautiful Collision'
- Betchadupa - 'The Alphabetchadupa'
- Garageland - 'Scorpio Rising'
- Goodshirt - 'Good'
As a result of the June meeting, two more will be done. They are:
- Nesian Mystik - 'Polysaturated'
- Blindspott - 'Blindspott'
Phase Four Albums:
NZ On Air have committed funding for 14 Phase Four albums this funding year (plus one more yet to be announced). Four have been released to date with the others scheduled for release or still at various stages of production. They are:
- Pluto - 'Redlightsyndrome' (follow up)
- Blindspott - 'Blindspott'
- The D4 - '6Twenty' (follow up)
- Nesian Mystik - 'Polysaturated'
- Before Friday - (which is now Dean Chandler)
- Carly Binding - 'Passenger'
- PanAm - (debut album)
- P-Money - 'Big Things' (follow up)
- Katchafire - 'Revival'
- Bic Runga - 'Beautiful Collision' (follow up)
- Che Fu - 'Navigator' (follow up)
- Anika Moa - 'Thinking Room' (follow up)
- Annie Crummer - (new album)
- The Feelers - 'Communicate' (follow up)
From the June meeting, two more have been added:
- Eight - (debut album) (Eight Limited via BMG)
- Op Shop - (Siren Records via EMI Music)
That's 17 for the year.
Phase Four New Recordings:
Out of the June round, NZ On Air will do another 9 New Recordings projects from a massive mailbag of 268 applications. That is a record number of applications - they have never had that many songs submitted before, in the three years that NZ On Air have been doing New Recordings.
The nine from the June meeting makes it 42 New Recordings projects this funding year. For a full list from October 2000 to the present day go to:
http://www.nzonair.govt.nz/pag.cfm?i=613
Meanwhile, in the June round, the nine new projects will each get $5,000 to record a song for radio. Decisions are based on commercial radio airplay potential, using commercial radio expertise and experience and testing the songs with commercial radio programmers. The nine new projects are:
- Alex Smart - 'Real' (Independent)
- Bolbox Rex - 'Just Begun' (More Meat Music)
- Fast Crew - 'Suburbia Streets' (Independent)
- Lazrus - 'Scribble' (Independent)
- Revolver - 'Out Your Window' (Independent)
- Spider - 'Concord' (Independent)
- The Have - 'The Fuzz' (Independent)
- Warner Newman - 'Walking Alone' (Independent)
- The Whiz Kidz - 'Fine Today' (Hark Entertainment)
Music Videos:
In the last funding round for 2002/2003, NZ On Air got an all-time record number of applications - 109 songs! It has never been that busy before - not in all 12 years of music video funding.
Of the 109, 66 made it to the final shortlist. That's 66 contenders for one of the 16 grants available. Of the 66, 29 made it to the second shortlist but that was still too many. In the end, we will do 19 projects - three more than budget, taking us to a total of 113 projects for the year.
Each project will get $5,000 to make a music video. Decisions are based on airplay potential after testing the songs with music video broadcasters and taking into account current radio priorities. They are:
- Emcee Lucia - 'All This Time' (Aotearoa Recordings)
- Goodshirt - 'Bucket Up' (Cement Records)
- Strawpeople - 'But Now You' (CRS Records)
- Mareko - 'Mareko (Here To Stay)' (Dawn Raid Entertainment)
- Scribe - 'Stand Up' (Dirty Records)
- Blindspott - 'Mind Depedency' (EMI Music)
- Greg Johnson - 'Sunny Day' (EMI Music)
- King Kapisi - 'Stomping' (Festival Mushroom Records)
- Carly Binding - 'This Is It' (Festival Mushroom Records)
- PanAm - 'Song One' (Flying Nun Records)
- Dei Hamo - 'Hot Girl' (Hiruys Records)
- No Artificial Flavours - 'Sweet As Bro' (Machaventa)
- Dead End Beat - 'Tonight We Ride' (Ning Nong Records)
- Brett Sawyer - 'Let Them Know' (No 9 Records)
- Op Shop - 'No Ordinary Thing' (Siren Records)
- Brooke Fraser - 'Better' (Sony Music)
- Two Lane Black Top - 'Hell Hound' (Tar Mach Productions)
- Elemeno P - 'Verona' (Universal Music)
- Salmonella Dub - 'Ease On' (Virgin Records)
Radio Hits:
- Based on airplay in the January/March 2003 quarter -
Another 7 Radio Hits rebates for songs that have picked up significant airplay on commercial radio in the first quarter of 2003. Each project will get $5,000 (or the actual cost of recording and releasing the single, whichever is the lesser).
Decisions are based on analysing the RadioScope airplay charts which are in turn based on airplay returns from 146 Radio Stations around the country.
Note that songs that have picked up significant airplay in this quarter but have already been funded via the Phase Four album or new recording schemes are not eligible for Radio Hits funding as well. They are:
- Evermore - 'Slipping Away' (Evermore Limited)
- Katchafire - 'Who You With' (Mai Music)
- The Datsuns - 'Harmonic Generator' (Hellsquad Records)
- The Whiz Kidz - 'Boy Racer' (Hark Entertainment)
- Deep Obsession - 'Miracles' (Revolution Music)
- Ill Semantics - 'The Highway' (Dawn Raid Entertainment)
- Goodshirt - 'Monotone' (Cement Records)
All up, the June round represents a $375,000 investment in new New Zealand music and the campaign to get more of it played on the radio.
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