GOING GLOBAL 2016 - CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Looking to take your music offshore? Independent Music NZ, the NZ Music Commission and ATEED are very pleased to announce who will be joining us this year for the GOING GLOBAL MUSIC SUMMIT 2016.

On Friday 2 and Saturday 3 September, Going Global will be taking over The Orange on Newton Road – also known as the legendary Orange Coronation Ballroom – for two days of panels, master-classes and 

presentations for people who are interested in working in the international music market.

Come and hear from people who are working with both new and established artists on the global stage.

The GOING GLOBAL MUSIC SUMMIT is proud to reveal our exceptional international speakers for 2016:

Colin Daniels – CEO, Inertia Group (AUSTRALIA) – KEYNOTE SPEAKER

CEO of the Inertia Group of companies, an independent music family including leading Australian full-service music company Inertia, live music promoter Handsome Tours, publisher GaGa Music, management company IE:Inertia. Colin Daniels is also the co-director of Fairgrounds festival with Inertia founder Ashley Sellers.

Anna Laverty – Producer, Engineer, Audio Mixer (AUSTRALIA)

A producer whose creative and technical prowess has been called upon by the likes of Courtney Barnett and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Anna also tours the nation as a Songmakers mentor for APRA educating writers in the craft of songwriting and production.

Brett Murrihy – Head of Asia Pacific, WME Music (AUSTRALIA)

Brett Murrihy is Head of Music Asia Pacific for WME and one of the region’s leading Booking Agents, Murrihy founded his own agency in 2010 and was acquired by William Morris Endeavor Entertainment in 2015.

Dana Erickson – Partner, Grandstand Media & Management (USA)

It all started with Pearl Jam then Epic Records, moving on to 2:30 Publicity before a merger which was the start of Grandstand Media & Management, US publicity representatives for some of the best talent in indie music.

Dick Huey – Founder / Consultant, Toolshed Digital Media Strategy (USA)

The founder of digital media marketing and consulting powerhouse Toolshed whose clients include Merge Records & Touch and Go, Dick, is behind the orchestration of over 350 digital campaigns throughout his career. A new media pioneer, Dick launched the New Media department at the Beggars Group in 1997, licensed the Group’s groundbreaking digital catalog, and set the Group’s strategic direction. Dick licenses independent music catalogs on behalf of Spotify in the United States and is a founding new media committee member for the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), and a board member representing Matador Records at Soundexchange.

Jackie Shuman – Music Supervisor, Good Ear Music Supervision (USA)

Previously Head of Sync at Crush Management Jackie uses her music discovery skills at Good Ear Music Supervision, a company known for their award-winning work with Apple, Google, Samsung, Nike, Twitter, Spotify.

Jessica Strassman – A&R Manager, Columbia Records / StarTime International (USA)

Based in NYC, Jessica works with a wide variety of artists, including Lewis Del Mar, Natalie Prass, and COIN. Prior to joining StarTime International & Columbia Records, Jessica worked in international concert booking at CAA.

Jim Pitt – Music Segment Producer, Conan (USA)

For 25 years Jim Pitt has booked music guests for US late night TV shows. At Saturday Night Live he had highs (network TV debut of Nirvana) and lows (Sinead O'Connor tearing up a picture of the Pope). Since Conan's premiere in 1993 (first guest: Radiohead), Jim has booked thousands of artists including TV debuts of Coldplay, Green Day, The Black Keys…New Zealand artists have included Crowded House, Flight of the Conchords, Straitjacket Fits, The Datsuns, Marlon Williams and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

Joe Alexander – Owner / Founder, Bedroom Suck Records (AUSTRALIA)

Joe’s label Bedroom Suck Records, is an independent record label aimed at fostering creative activity and building strong music communities. The label is firmly rooted in the Melbourne music community, and has come to include management and booking services for many of his artists.

Kristen Ng – Venue Booker / Tour Manager / Blogger, Kiwese.co.nz (CHINA)

Having started the multimedia blog Kiwese (www.kiwese.co.nz) in order to promote independent music between China and Aotearoa, Kristen has recently booked venues for Die!Die!Die!, handles event & promotions for NU SPACE & NUART FESTIVAL & previously tour managed Orchestra of Spheres amongst others as well a being a part of Chengdu electronic music collective ‘atmen’ - Kristen has it covered.

Nikita Lavrinenko – Founder / Agent, Paper & Iron Booking Co. (GERMANY)

After gathering experience in a variety of independent businesses such as a label, distribution, a record store, concert promotion and as a touring musician, Nikita Lavrinenko has co-founded Paper and Iron Booking Co, the European agency currently looks after the live performances of artists such as Ryley Walker, Jenny Hval, and New Zealand’s own Nadia Reid.

Richard Moffat – Music Booker, Falls Festival & Groovin’ The Moo (AUSTRALIA)

Rich has booked everything in Australia, from Melbourne’s top pubs and clubs, through to booking and programming festivals, which include: St Kilda Festival, Queenscliff, Falls Festival, Southbound, Pushover, Groovin’ the Moo, Parklife, West Coast Blues & Roots, Northwest Festival, Splendour and The Plot. Rich has booked early tours for the White Stripes, Blink-182, QOTSA and Beck at venues, including the first ever Australian show by The Pixies!

Tim Price – Partner / Head Publicist, Collision Course (AUSTRALIA)

Things that take up Tim Price's brainspace and time: Australian heavy / alternative / oz prog music mid-90s to now and perhaps at times over zealously spruiking them; an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars, James Bond movies, DC comic books, cartoons and TV shows; hitting up and putting on shows; hanging with his wife; drinking good coffee and beer / bourbon; and getting good barbershop haircuts. Says it all. Kia Ora Tim!

Tom Larkin – Founder / Owner, SIGNAL Agency Group / Homesurgery MGMT (AUSTRALIA)

Tom is the founder of the SIGNAL Agency Group, an artist development collective that comprises hi-end recording studios, (The Studios In The City) an artist management company (Homesurgery) and the newly minted SIGNAL Artist Development Accelerator Program...not forgetting also being the powerhouse drummer of Shihad.

Tom Wironen – Manager, Post Hoc Management (USA)

Having worked in Music Management for nearly a decade with artists such as The National and Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Tom also helped produce MusicNOW Festival, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, and Sounds of the South at Vivid Festival, and project managed 'Day of the Dead' - a 59 track Grateful Dead tribute compilation benefiting the Red Hot Organization.

Zac Ives – Co-Owner, Goner Records / Gonerfest (USA)

As co-owner of Goner Records, an independent record label and shop based in Memphis, Zac has released well over 100 records, including albums by Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Ty Segall, Jay Reatard, Quintron and Toy Love. He also co-founded and curates the annual independent music festival, Gonerfest. Every September, Goner bring bands and music fans from all over the world to Memphis for three days of wild rock & roll abandon in small venues around town.

More speakers will be announced mid-August.

GOING GLOBAL 2016

THE ORANGE, 147 NEWTON ROAD, EDEN TERRACE, AUCKLAND

Friday 2nd September

Saturday 3rd September

REGISTRATION: Register at www.goingglobal.co.nz

Artist applications are currently open at www.goingglobal.co.nz until Monday, August 1st 2016

APRA Silver Scroll Awards – 2016 Top 20

Emerging talent sits alongside some of the most prominent names in New Zealand music in this year’s rich and varied list of Top 20 songs vying for the coveted APRA Silver Scroll Award.

A massive paki paki for our MMF artists named in the Top 20 in line for this years Silver Scroll -

Seth Haapu, LEISURE (Scott Maclachlan), Louis Baker (Cushla Aston), The Phoenix Foundation (Craig Pearce),Dave Dobbyn (Lorraine Barry), Tami Neilson, Mice on Stilts (Dylan Keating) Shayne P Carter (Scott Muir), Thomas Oliver (Cushla Aston) and Laughton Kora (Jaz Kapow)

The 2016 APRA Silver Scroll Award Top 20 are:

SONG	WRITTEN BY	PERFORMED BY
10 Years	Seth Haapu	Seth Haapu
A Lake	James Milne	Lawrence Arabia
All Eyes In The Room	Gareth Thomas	Gareth Thomas
All Over You	Djeisan Suskov/Jaden Parkes /Josh Fountain/Thomas Young /Jordan Arts	Leisure
August Song	Anji Sami	The Sami Sisters
Buried By The Burden	Devin Abrams/Louis Baker	Pacific Heights feat. Louis Baker
Don't Rate That	David Dallas/Jordan Iusitini /Aaron Iusitini	David Dallas
Dream	Lydia Cole	Lydia Cole
Give Up Your Dreams	Samuel Scott/Christopher O'Connor/Lukasz Buda /Conrad Wedde/William Ricketts /Thomas Callwood	The Phoenix Foundation
Harmony House	David Dobbyn/Samuel Scott /Lukasz Buda	Dave Dobbyn
If I Move To Mars	Thomas Oliver	Thomas Oliver
Love Will Be A River	Holly Arrowsmith	Holly Arrowsmith with Fly My Pretties
March	Mara Tekahika (Mara TK) /Deva Mahal/David Wright	Electric Wire Hustle feat. Deva Mahal
One Question	Frank Eliesa/Swapnil Gomez/Kenji Iwamitsu-Holdaway/Jong-Yun Lee/ Laughton Kora/Campbell Duncan	Yoko-Zuna feat. Laughton Kora
Pedestrian Support League	Emily Littler/Billy Rogers /Alex Brown/Christopher Varnham	Street Chant
Pocket	Rebecca Melrose	Miloux
Stuck In Melodies	Andrew Keoghan/Wayne Bell	Andrew Keoghan
The First Man	Tami Neilson/Jay Neilson	Tami Neilson
The Hours	Benjamin Morley	Mice On Stilts
We Will Rise Again	Shayne Carter	Shayne P Carter

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Widely considered the most prestigious accolade in New Zealand music, the APRA Silver Scroll Award recognises outstanding achievement in the craft of songwriting. What makes the award unique is that the winner is decided by vote of APRA’s members – more than 10,000 New Zealand songwriters and composers.

Top 20 member voting is now open, and closes on Sunday, August 14.

Having last year marked the 50th presentation of the APRA Silver Scroll Award, the event is now well and truly woven into the vibrant tapestry that is the New Zealand music scene. 2016’s Top 20 further reinforces that, with a strong list of songs and songwriters that are destined to leave an indelible impact not just on New Zealanders but on those around the world.

“It is our pleasure to celebrate the work of New Zealand's songwriters and composers at the APRA Silver Scroll Awards. A song can take an age or a moment to write but the pleasure great songs give us are rewards to treasure” says APRA AMCOS’ Anthony Healey.

“These songs come from the new and old, the north and south and span all genre. They are connected only by the fact they've been written here in New Zealand and the fact they are each, in their own unique way, excellent” he adds.

Past recipients of the prestigious award include a long list of iconic Kiwi music stalwarts - from Dave Dobbyn, Don McGlashan and Shona Laing to Neil Finn, Bic Runga, and Ray Columbus. They’re joined by a younger generation of music makers that include James Milne & Luke Buda, Ella Yelich-O’Connor (Lorde) & Joel Little, and Aaron Young, Alisa Xayalith & Thom Powers (The Naked and Famous).

The APRA Silver Scroll Award will be presented at Vector Arena in Auckland on Thursday 29th September. The other awards presented on the night are:

APRA Maioha Award, celebrating exceptional waiata featuring te reo Māori
SOUNZ Contemporary Award, celebrating excellence in contemporary composition
APRA Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award
APRA Best Original Music in a Series Award

As a part of the celebrations APRA will also be inducting a songwriter/s into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. 

The New Zealand Music Community Wellbeing Survey

The New Zealand Music Foundation is conducting a landmark study into the health and wellbeing of people working and volunteering in music in New Zealand.

People who are involved in any music-related discipline either full time, part time or on a volunteer basis can complete the survey. This includes composers and performers, artist managers, roadies, sound and lighting engineers, technicians, stage crew, drivers, promoters, record company personnel, choir and orchestra members and more. The charity is hoping to receive responses from people involved in all genres of music, from pop, jazz, classical, punk, urban, folk, hip hop and others. The survey is completely confidential and participants are not required to identify themselves to take part.

The New Zealand Music Community Wellbeing Survey is an online study that will take participants between five and seven minutes to complete. It asks questions about the nature of their involvement in music, the kinds of stresses and issues they encounter and asks their opinion on support initiatives that may make a difference to them.

The link to the survey is http://bit.ly/NZMF-MCWS. It will remain open until midnight on Sunday 31 July andthe MMF urge all our members and their bands and crew to take part.  Feel free to pass on the survey to all and everyone in the industry.   

The survey follows on from a recent similar study in Australia which found that entertainment workers in general experienced suicide ideation at levels 5-7 times higher than the general population, that levels of moderate to severe anxiety symptoms are 10 times higher and that levels of depression symptoms are five times higher.