taking care of business

Rip It Up, Issue 218, 1 October 1995, Page 16

taking care of business

Green Day Producer Visits NZ ; The Reprise V.P. of A&R Rob Cavallo visited Warner Music NZ in September. He was fresh out of the recording studio where he had just produced the Green Day and Muffs albums. Cavallo is one of the few A&R folk who also have the title ‘Staff Producer" on their business card. The Green Day album Insomniac is preceded by the single 'Geek Stink Breath'. Cavallo promised a Green Day interview for RipltUp to coincide with the album’s release. MCA Opens in Auckland __ The New Zealand office for MCA opened October 1 at Level 1. 114-116 Ponsonby Road. The labels represented by MCA Music NZ include MCA, Geffen, Uptown, Chess, Radioactive and Steven Spielberg's Dream Works. MCA also has two new labels started by ex Warners USA executives: Krasnow ' 'JS • Entertainment and Doug Morris's Rising Tide. MCA is also expected to purchase the Interscope label from Atlantic, as the Time-Warner group shed their controversial rap artists. Staff appointed are George Ash General Manager (ex BMG), Marlene Barwick Financial Controller (ex Sony), Lisa Williams Marketing Manager (ex Warners), Nicky Jarvis Promotions Manager (ex Warners), Grant Kearney Promotions & Marketing Assistant (ex BMG) and Natalie Batten Office Administrator. BMG will continue to sell and distribute MCA product in New Zealand. To contact MCA phone (09) 3762889 or fax (09) 376-6353. Recording Artists & Creative NZ Since the Arts Council changed its name to Creative NZ the New Artists Recording Grants Scheme has evolved. The March and September deadlines have gone and now grants are no longer limited to a musician's first release. Artists still have to send demo tapes, a budget and lyric sheets and have a performance track record and support from a record company. The 1996 closing dates are February 16 and August 7. For further info write to Creative NZ. PO Box 3806, Wellington or phone (04) 473-0880. Modern Songwriting Workshop - Auckland Centre for Continuing Education is running a summer songwriting workshop January 5 to 7 at Auckland University. The tutors are Bernard Griffen of Sun Pacific Music and Arthur Baysting of APRA. Course fee is $l7O. Further info (09) 373-7599 ext 7831. 1995 Waikato Rock Awards This year's Waikato Rock Awards has nine categories. Entries for the first category, Live Band, close October 10. The other categories close October 31 — Music Video, Original Song, Album, Best Recorded Work. Best Presentation of Recorded Work, Female Vocalist, Male Vocalist and Biggest Contribution to Waikato Music. The Awards are presented by Zoo Studio and Hark Records. For entry forms phone (07) 8383-063. Musical Chairs Festival has created two label manager positions — Shirley Charles looks after the Mushroom, White and Wildside labels while Sarah Mac Donnell (ex bFM) is Label Manager for the Liberation. Flying Nun and Deepgrooves labels. The new Press / Promotions person is Francesca Nixon ... EMI promotions positions are Promotions Manager Bridgit Bolton-Riley (ex Festival) and Promotions Assistant Ben Hill (ex bFM) ... also at EMI Sherie O’Neill who was Marketing Co-Ordinator has now been appointed the EMI Label Manager... Simon Coffey is now Promotion Manager at bFM and new Office Manager is lan Hughes. NZ ON AIR Music Videos. The acts who have received NZ On Air video grants at the August meeting are: Teremoana Four Woman (BMG) Sulata Find Yourself (Deepgrooves) Grace Heart Of Stone (Deepgrooves) Three The Hard Way B All Right (Deepgrooves) Ermehn Nuttin’ Personal (Deepgrooves) Jordan Reyne Millstones (Deepgrooves) Matty J Ruys Cruisin' (EMI) The Bats Afternoon In Bed (Flying Nun) King Loser '76 Comeback (Flying Nun) Jacqui Keelan-Davey Nobody (Hark) The Nixons Laughing (Pagan) Greg Johnson If I Swagger (Pagan) Barry Saunders Little Things (Pagan) Lole Just Wanna (Papa Pacific) Field Style Orator Hibiscus Milk (Papa Pacific) Wonderkind Destiny Change (Probe) , . ' Strawpeople Turn Of The Century (Sony) Upper Hutt Posse Can't Get Away (Tangata) . Moana & The Moahunters Give It Up Now (Tangata) Dam Native Behold (Tangata) Emma Paki Don't Do It (Virgin) Temuera Morrison Waiata Poi (Virgin) The Exponents Lulu (Warners) Pumpkinhead Nark (Wildside) Nothing At All! Something At Last (Zero) NZ ON AIR Kiwi Hit Disc The tracks selected for the Kiwi Hit Disc N 0.16 are: Matty J Ruys Cruisin' (EMI) Grace Heart Of Stone (Deepgrooves) Strawpeople Turn Of The Century (Sony) Ngalre The Way I Feel About You (Festival) Teremoana Four Woman (BMG) Sulata Find Yourself (Deepgrooves) Emma Paki Don’t Do It (Virgin) D-Faction Down In The Boondocks (Southside) Lole Just Wanna (Papa Pacific) Moana & The Moahunters Give It Up Now (Tangata) Temuera Morrison Waiata Poi (Virgin) Three The Hard Way B All Right (Deepgrooves) Purest Form If I Fell (Madame X) . Margaret Urlich Every Little Thing (Sony) Wayne Mason Walking That View Around (Raging Goose) King Biscuit For This Moment (Hark) Dragon Are You Old Enough (Roadshow) NZ ON AIR Radio Hits Funding The following NZ artists qualified due to "significant airplay" achieved, for funding by the NZ On Air Radio Hits Scheme: Southside Of Bombay Umbadada (Pagan) Igelese Groovalation (Papa Pacific) Jan Hellriegel Manic (Warners) Second Child Crumble (Wildside)