NZ Music Month Seminars

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 speakers with international experience will share their expertise and give advice in a series
of seminars that will travel to 4 centres around New Zealand.

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: Bar Bodega
101 Ghuznee Street
Time: 2pm to 4pm

Sunday 20th May Christchurch
Venue: Upstairs at the Dux Delux
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

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

Speakers Bios
David Benge
Started out working as campus activities co-ordinator for Victoria University doing Orientation week. Quit to work with Fur Patrol full time and then moved to Australia with the band. Started a publishing/touring/record label company called Speak n Spell. Currently still doing management for Fur Patrol and new signings Cut Off Your Hands, also still running/own Speak n Spell with another couple of guys who are based in Sydney.

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. Recently released a split 7” of High Dependency Unit / Die Die Die through own label - Shoot The Freak.

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.