NZ Music Month Seminar - Getting NZ Music Overseas
Sun, 20 May, Dux-de-Lux Lounge (2-4pm), FREE!

            

NZ Music Commission in conjunction with NZ Music Managers Forum and NZ On Air announce NZ Music Month Seminars - ‘Getting NZ Music Overseas’

This year’s NZ Music Month seminars will be tackling the question on every NZ band’s lips – ‘how do I get my music overseas?’. A panel of experienced speakers who have had international experience will share their experience and give advice in a series of seminars that will travel to 4 national centres.

The Christchurch seminar will feature:
David Benge – MD of Australian label Speak ‘n’ Spell, manager of Cut Off Your Hands and Fur Patrol
Tom Dalton – Manager for The Datsuns, Jakob, Pluto and Anika Moa
Brendan Smyth –NZ On Air Music Manager
Gary Fortune  – International Manager at NZ Music Commission
Cath Andersen – General Manager of NZ Music Commission

The sessions will be chaired by Teresa Patterson – Manager for Scribe, Blindspott, Elemeno P, Carly Binding and The Have. Topics to be covered include:

1. The first step – who, what, where, how? Who do we speak to, what do we do, where do we go, how do we go about doing this?
2. Overseas touring – how is this done?
3. Trade shows/conferences – are these worth the expense? (SXSW/Midem/CMJ/Popkomm/Muse Expo etc)
4. Funding – what funding is available

All the seminars are FREE. MMF members will have the opportunity to meet the speakers for exclusive one on one sessions.

Saturday 19th May - Wellington
                Venue: tbc
                Time: 2pm to 4pm

Sunday 20th May - Christchurch
                Venue: Upstairs at the Dux -De-Lux
                Cnr Hereford & Montreal Streets
                Time: 2pm to 4pm

Monday 21th May - Dunedin
                Venue: Refuel Bar, Underground, University of Otago, 640 Cumberland St
                Time: 6pm – 8pm

Tuesday 22nd May - Auckland
                Venue: Apra
                Unit 113, Zone 23, 21-23 Edwin St, Mt Eden,
                Time: 6pm – 8pm

Christchurch Registration
Email Jeff Fulton at info@christchurchmusic.org.nz if you'd like to attend.

For more information go to www.mmf.co.nz or www.nzmusicmonth.co.nz
For media enquiries contact: Mikhal@nzmusic.org.nz or 09 376-0115 or Teresa@crsmanagement.co.nz or 09 3613967

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Speakers Bios

David Benge
Started out working as campus activities co-ordinator for VIC uni doing O week and the like. Quit to work with Fur Patrol full time. Moved to OZ with the band. Started a publishing/touring/record label company called Speak n Spell. Currently doing management for Fur Patrol and Cut Off Your Hands and running/own Speak n Spell with another couple of guys who are based in Sydney.

Speak n Spell works with: Cut Off Your Hands, Editors, The Dears, The Walkmen, Four Tet, Midlake, The Horrors, Die Die Die to name a few...

Tom Dalton
Artist Manager for the Datsuns & Jakob plus recent signings Pluto & Anika Moa.  Worked on overseas tours for with Die Die Die, Connan & the Mockasins and more recently So So Modern.
Released a split 7” of High Dependency Unit / Die Die Die through own label - Shoot The Freak.
Started a small merchandise business servicing international bands  - Swagger.

Brendan Smyth – NZ On Air
Brendan manages NZ On Air's programmes to support the making and marketing of NZ music. He is responsible for the funding of music videos, the production of the NZ On Air hit discs that go out to radio stations, funding NZ music programmes that play on commercial radio and on the b.net student radio stations as well as the Phase Four and Phase Five funding and promotional strategies

Cath Andersen/Gary Fortune – NZ Music Commission
The New Zealand Music Commission (NZMIC) is one of the Government funded arts agencies, and is committed to growing NZ music business, both at home and overseas. Financially supported through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the NZMIC undertakes projects and partnerships that are strategically about getting New Zealand music out into the world and assisting music businesses in working better.
 
‘Outward Sound’ is the name of the NZMIC International Division.  It focuses primarily on international music market development and works with individual artists’ business managers.
 
The NZMIC’s international programme also includes coordinating the NZ presence at two key offshore events – the MIDEM trade fair in Cannes, France, and the South By Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.
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