MOUNTAIN ROCK OWES BANDS

Rip It Up, Issue 217, 1 September 1995, Page 5

MOUNTAIN ROCK OWES BANDS

While Mountain Rock Promotions, the new company formed to oversee the staging of the 1996 Mountain Rock Music Festival, has secured sponsorship for the event, and is currently auditioning bands, three major acts who performed at the concert in January this year are yet to be paid. Supergroove are owed $10,500, an amount that combines their performance fee and band merchandise sold at the venue, a spokesperson for Hello Sailor confirms the band are owed “a substantial amount”, while Moana & and the Moahunters are yet to received their performance fee of $4500. Moana’s manager William Jackson intends to start proceedings to wind up Mountain Rock Productions.

“If I get the chance to wind them up, I’ll wind them up, they shouldn’t be allowed to organise another concert. What I’m astounded by is how they’ve almost got away with it, there’s been very little criticism towards them. I amazed that they even got sponsorship considering the amount of lies they’ve told. I was told by [Paul] Campbell, [MR Productions Director] three times that our money was in the bank. If they had been straight with us from day one we would have helped them out.”