Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Moz,
“The Hollowmen”, an Australian TV satire about politicians opened with a Bats track. I wondered at the time whether that was part of the satire, as well as thinking “that would have paid them a decent amount”.
The champ of all this is Andrew Brough of Straitjacket Fits and Bike. Someone at Grundy really liked him, and he basically bought a house off sync revenue from Neighbours, Prisoner and Richmond Hill.
Shayne Carter derives a very modest income from music through his publishing too. That thing about having a catalogue. But the commitment of staying a musical artist is quite a thing.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to David Bishop,
Living in the UK, Bandcamp is for me the most reliable way of supporting fresh music by Kiwi artists. I just wish there was a way to search exclusively for NZ recordings so I could more easily discover new and emerging performers. [Unless there is such a way and I’ve been too dim to figure out – which is quite likely. If so, please let me know!]
Here you go. Everything under the New Zealand tag.
But they do make it kind of hard to find with the current design.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to chris,
WIthout naming names, and solely based on youtube views, some of the videos that NZOA are funding are being subsidised to the tune of $200 per view.
To be fair, some others get hundreds of thousands of views. And recipients are accountable under Making Tracks for their internet action, or lack of it.
If you know what you’re looking for, but if you don’t then it’s a bit of time consuming minefield. If you want good picture quality you could buy a Chrome Cast or something etc etc, but even then it’s not really close to the convenience of the clickless experience of a dedicated NZOA funded NZ music show, I don’t care if it’s not all New Zealand music, Space wasn’t, but it was a decent venue for New Zealand artists on our National broadcasting network.
Nz On Air can only fund what broadcasters will screen. But NZ On Air's own Alltracks might work for you. Curated audio and video playlists in a range of genres.
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to James Butler,
why would anyone who doesn’t want to live here want to invest in an asset whose value grows slower than wages?
People do it in Germany because it provides a steady, long-term return. But the rental market is different there,
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Martin Brown,
Every time I have an opportunity to use local music in some way, I do.
Good for you.
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And on a lighter note, something both brilliant and stupid:
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Hard News: Friday Music: Not just…, in reply to Martin Brown,
It would be good to see a local patronage-style of crowd funding where people could elect to give an artist ongoing support at the micro-payment end of things – say a dollar or two a month – rather than backing a project.
Like people do for this website.
Good news is, Givealittle has a product in the works that might fit the bill. Elsewhere, Patreon has quite a good model for creative works.
Not all crowdfunding has to be project-based.
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Well, shit, this is pretty amazing. A massive three-volume free compilation featuring everyone from The Bilders and the Axemen to Salad Boys and Las Tetas:
You’re Not Invited: New Zealand’s Underground, 2010-2015 (In Three Volumes)
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to BenWilson,
Personally I think it should grow slower than wages and salaries to decrease the wealth gap.
The levers we can then tinker with are pretty clear. For supply, natural technological change is always a upwards driver, but it’s not controllable. Increasing the speed of approvals is a tap that can be turned up or down. For demand, interest rates are a lever we already use. Limits on foreign capital flows are another, and they could free up the other lever considerably. Trying to do it all with interest rates is like trying to swim with one arm. Then there’s the obvious possibility of redistribution through various subsidizations. I’m sure there’s others.
Another obvious answer would be "whatever Germany does”. Which appears to revolve around strong tenancy rights and a culture of long-term rental. Although things may be changing a bit in Berlin.
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Speaker: House prices and the "Magic Money", in reply to Swan,
So before the change point, more of the rise in housing stock value was due to the rise in the real value of the improvements on the house.
After the change point, the rise was more about revaluation of existing assets, and specifically increases in the value of the underlying land. We know land values have increased hugely in our cities over the last decade.
Incidentally this fits in perfectly with the argument that land supply is the main culprit when it comes to housing affordability.
Well, yeah. With each official valuation the value of improvements as a proportion of the the overall valuation of my central Auckland residential property decreases. But I’m guessing that location (ie: land) has been the primary driver of residential property prices since way before 2001.
Also, what form of demand would cause an increase in Auckland land prices so tremendously out of proportion to population increases in the past five years? If demand for land is driving up prices, where is that demand coming from? It doesn’t seem to be related to external or internal migration. I think this relates to David’s point about the difficulty of planning housing supply when the demand indicators available to you don’t tell you anything useful.
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