Almost At The Summit

Almost At The Summit

It's been a great May to date with things happening in almost every corner of the country.

Things are not going to slow down over the next few weeks with the debut album by Zowie, Love Demolition, hitting the stores and the sophmore album by Ladyhawke called Anxiety out on 25 May and great chart placings by New Zealand artists as diverse as: Home Brew, Suzanne Prentice, The Black Seeds and Jamie McDell.

And there are still huge events to come like the Gore Golden Guitars, the Pacific Music Awards and NZ Music Month Seminar Summit in Auckland with the Music Managers Forum. Add to this music all over the country, at schools, libraries and venues everywhere there is still a whole lot of noise to be made and heard this May.

Looking ahead things don't slow down for the music loving community for as we know our local music and musicians are out there working hard all year round, with this in mind we shine a spotlight on a couple of the biggest online gig guides where you can list your shows or if a punter find out whats happening near to home. Add to these the rich and diverse sources of listings found in the countries; newspapers, magazines, street press, fanzines and radio stations and you soon realise there is just so much going on.

It is a great time to be a local music fan!

Important Dates:

May - NZ Music Month
May 26 - NZ Music Month Seminar Summit, Auckland
May 31 - Pacific Music Awards, Manukau
May 31 - Golden Guitar Awards, Gore
May 31 - Hook Line & Singalong, Nationwide
June 1 - NZ On Air: Making Tracks round closing date
June 1 - NZ Music Month Sleep in
July 1 - NZ On Air: Making Tracks round closing date
July 23 - Outward Sound Grant applications due

The annual NZ Music Month Summit

The NZ Music Month Summit is a day of seminars featuring top industry experts explaining what goes on behind the scenes of the NZ music industry.

With the theme of “How To…” this is a timely insight into what makes the NZ music industry tick and how to succeed in the market. The day features a range of speakers including managers, funders, labels and songwriters.

The Summit is open to the public and it is free to attend. Exclusive to MMF members is the opportunity for speed networking sessions after each panel discussion. The time and numbers will be restricted so please get in quick to secure your place.

NZ MUSIC MONTH SUMMIT 2012

Q Theatre
305 Queen St
(just up from Auckland Town Hall)

10am - 4.30pm Saturday 26th May

THEME: HOW TO …..

Full details and RSVP information can be found on the Music Managers Forum website

2012 Music Managers Awards Winners

In an invitation only awards ceremony held at the Backbeat bar on Auckland's K'Rd yesterday, around a hundred industry guests including some of New Zealand's best music managers got together to celebrate some standout successes from last year.

The 2012 Music Managers Awards Winners Are:

Manager of the Year - Teresa Patterson (Six60, I Am Giant, Iva Lamkum)

Breakthrough Manager of the Year - Haddon Smith (Annah Mac)

International Achievement - Paul McKessar & Campbell Smith (The Naked & Famous, Brooke Fraser,Opossom, Lydia Cole, Collapsing Cities, Human Lawnmowers)

Best Independent Tour - Teresa Patterson (Six60 Mini Tours 2011)

Best Venue - Leigh Sawmill

Online Achievement Award- Tim Youngson & Scott Maclachlan (Mt Eden)

Self Managed Artist of the Year - Patu Colbert (1814)

Outside The Box Award - Ingrid Bennie (Concord Dawn, Julia Deans, co manage David Dallas and Computers Want Me Dead)

Upcoming Manager of the Year - Cushla Aston (The Thomas Oliver Band, Cornerstone Roots, Rio Hemopo)

Industry Champion - New Zealand Music Commission

MMF Mentoring Success Story - Ryan Kershaw , pictured (self managed artist)

NZ Music Month - T Shirts

As we know no musical month of May would be complete without the iconic NZ Music Month t-shirts.

There are two styles of t-shirt available in 2012, the standard featuring the Target logo (voted one of New Zealand’s top five logos by readers of Idealog magazine) and the Limited Edition t-shirt.

Alongside the t-shirts is the ever popular and seasonally well-timed NZ Music Month Hoodie, also limited in numbers and featuring the target logo

This year’s t-shirts are available from all good local music stores online and off including: The Warehouse, JB Hi-Fi and Marbecks and online via amplifier.co.nz, mightyape.co.nz and nzmusicmonth.co.nz

So next time you're buying a local release you can grab your NZ Music Month T to go.

Where to go, what to do - Eventfinder

Eventfinder is an online cultural events calendar that focuses on what's on around New Zealand.

Events are organised into the categories 'Concerts and Gig Guide', 'Festivals and Lifestyle', 'Performing Arts' and 'Sports and Outdoors', 'Exhibitions' and 'Workshops & Conferences' to help you find what you're looking for.

It's free to join, and you can customise your own weekly 'what's on' newsletter to include your choice of event types and/or locations, or you can see everything.

You can save events to your 'Favourites' list by checking the 'Add to favourites' button, making it easier to keep track of interesting events for later. You can also let people know you're going by checking the 'Going' box and look for friends by checking 'Looking for buddies.'

You are able to list your own events as well - perfect for event promoters and marketing managers.

Eventfinder supplies event information to some of New Zealand's biggest and best media and lifestyle sites, including the NZ Herald, Yahoo!Xtra, MSN NZ, TimeOut magazine, AA Travel and many others.

eventfinder.co.nz

Where to go, what to do - Mukuna Gig Guide

Mukuna.co.nz is a Gig Guide, they list live music events for free, so its a great place to look to find out whats happening when you are heading out. Since they collect music related event listings for Bands, DJ's, Clubs, Venues and anything else we feel like from all over the country, radio stations, venues, promoters and artists use us to update their websites and you - automatically, and that has made it easier for everyone.

If you are wondering about the name, it comes from a genus of tropical vines, called mucuna. The seeds are considered good luck and the flowers are pollinated at night by bats. It grows everywhere and is hard to kill. So that's Mukuna with two U's and one A.

Mukuna.co.nz

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