Posts by Kyle Matthews
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in a non combative way.
Non combative like (to quote yourself)?:
I am rude about it now
It's sarcasm, a defense mechanism used by cynical smart asses to deflate feelings of incredulity and frustration.
Apparently he's so out of the loop in his search for public opinion and debate on Music Funding that he doesn't know about the existence of Public Address so perhaps your first task as internet guru to the stars could be to show brendan how to work an internet browser :)
point still stands, why are you avoiding the question Russell?
So maybe I've been too rough on MR Smyth, its not his fault someone gave him the job and salary, but really, should he be doing?
And that's just a couple of pages.
But no thanks. I just thought you were using the wonders of the internet to be a prick and deserved to be called on it. I'll save my debate for another time.
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Very doubtful. It's more likely that their deal with Universal Music Publishing was the clincher there.
Well if that's the case then what role did NZ on Air have in getting that deal?
I don't know anything about Savage or his career. I just wonder what he'd say if he was asked "have NZ on Air helped your career?"
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__eh? Stay on topic.__
ok, noted, kyle can't handle lateral thinking.
Well if you're going to be a dick and get personal.
Your parallel between how I've argued about the funding for NZ on Air, and how you've painted me as feeling about disaster relief, is completely made up, wrong, and irrelevant. There's no connection between the two at all.
So far in this forum you've taken the opportunity about three times to tell me what I think about something which isn't actually the case. It makes you look like a twit whose best tactic in the debate is to dip into fiction about what the other person says/thinks.
Better?
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local bands breaking through on their own, through hard slog ground up gigging (remembering this was the hey day of Shihad, Salmonella, Fur Patrol, Good Shirt etc),
Well.
Shihad appear on Kiwihits disks 24 times, dating back to 1993.
Fur Patrol 13 times.
Salmonella Dub 18 times.
Goodshirt 8 times.All seem to cover a fair range of their career.
Their database doesn't seem to be working for looking at old decisions for recording singles and videos, but I'm presuming they got some help back in the day. Shihad got money in April of this year for producing a video.
Then a bunch of people who weren't affected by the disaster move into the area and start consuming the aid.
is it ok for that money to be used by no affected people?
They're people and their benefiting from the money just like a homeless and hungry disaster victim would. by your reckoning thats a good result and everything is ok.eh? Stay on topic.
Because it says clearly in the nz on air charter that
NZ On Air will allocate funding so that programmes and broadcasts that wouldn't otherwise be made in a commercial market can be produced.
I presume that programmes and broadcasts here relates to TV and radio shows. If for example you read their radio policy:
NZ On Air's priorities for programming for commercial radio are focused on youth, spiritual, drama and comedy programmes.
Those are things that wouldn't otherwise be made in a commercial market. Under TV they say:
NZ On Air has also published policies in relation to drama funding, children's programmes, travel and editing loans, and has implemented Te Rautaki Māori.
Perhaps Brendan will return and clarify.
The American deal comes after the success of the song Swing on the sound-track of hit Hollywood movie Knocked Up. It quickly gained cult status.
"The movie is what's snowballed everything," Savage said
Again, I don't know what else they have or haven't supported him in, but Savage appeared on 5 Kiwihits discs, all 2004 - 2006, before this movie came out. Given the significance of this one song to snowball Savage's career, maybe the question that should be asked is how the director of Knocked Up came to hear it/him. Maybe NZ on Air played a part in that?
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Yep, teachers, doctors and nurses are paid more, which was overdue. Now when do we see some improvements in outcomes for the populace?
I know the unions used this as an argument, but I don't buy it, or think it's necessary.
Increased pay rates will only lead to better outcomes, if a significant number of teachers have been sitting around doing a half-decent job because their pay is so bad, and now that they've got back up to something that they consider 'reasonable', all of a sudden they're going to work harder.
I don't believe that's the case, I suspect most teachers worked just as hard before as they do now. They probably just feel a bit better about doing so now.
I think increasing salaries of teachers and nurses should just be done because they were underpaid, better outcome or not.
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__I don't get why you think that 'mainstream music' that gets played on commercial radio doesn't deserve the support of NZ on Air.__
Because it says clearly in the nz on air charter that
NZ On Air will allocate funding so that programmes and broadcasts that wouldn't otherwise be made in a commercial market can be produced.
And previously commercial radio carried what... 2% of NZ music. Now they're carrying up to 20%?
Surely the 2% figure is pretty clear indication that NZ music wasn't making it in the commercial market, and now, in the NZ on Air environment, it's doing a lot better.
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But the thing is Kyle, it largely doesn't get covered. Have a look at that Radioscope Chart I posted. The 20% is not applied evenly across all formats and stations.
I agree that all pop music made in NZ is NZ music. I'm not making qualitative judgments but I'd be keen on seeing the airplay percentages once the niche stations are removed from the mix. And there is a reasonable argument, strongly backed by the sales figures I also quoted, that commercial radio is playing some acts because they fit the format, not because they represent any groundswell of popular support. That ain't helpful to anyone.
Well I don't know more than half those acts, but probably.
But I can't blame commercial radio for playing the music that fits their station. Beyond dictating what they're going to play, I can't see how you change that.
If there's no medium via commercial radio for a type of music, and they don't fit into national/kiwi/bnet, then where should NZ on Air go to get it on radio. There aren't any other places for them to go. The government rejected the youth radio idea a few years ago (with some reason I thought). Is it NZ on Air's fault that there's no country radio station?
Isn't that statement a little like cherry picking data to prove that global warming is a myth?
I don't follow electronica music at all, I just know Sonic Smith. But obviously there's a medium for that music that musicians can use, I can't imagine he's the only electronica musician in NZ getting on radio.
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Talking ratios, The Radioscope Top 100 Airplay chart, which I look at once a week or two, is showing 10% NZ this week (which I think its quite high on an average, but nowhere near the 20% touted).
Perhaps it's updated to the next week:
NZ content on ALL radio this week: 19.35%
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And then, as he was being carried out, my sisters in law, who Dad adored, and who all sing like angels, sang him a waiata.
To me waiata and haka are beautifully NZ things about funerals.
I happened to be sick the day of Edmund Hillary's funeral, and I didn't find it at all emotional until they took the casket out the the pupils from the high school began a haka.
And the poem that they say for war veterans. My Gran had that for her service.
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is brendan actually going to participate in a debate or just dump a bunch of sound bites on us. I thought he said he was up for discussion?
It's entirely possible he doesn't work on weekends.