MUSIC BUSINESS SEMINAR
In Auckland Saturday October 17 and Sunday 18, the Crawl, Walk, Drive, Fly! Music Industry Seminars will be held at the Auckland Town Hall. The sessions will last 10am to 6pm daily. The Seminar will be run by Sydney based Phil Tripp, an Ameri-can-born, Australasian music enthusuiast, who runs similar Seminars in Australia.
The line-up of speakers includes expatriate Kiwis who work in Australia, such as Peter Dawkins (Dragon, Mi-Sex etc producer) and Grant Thomas (Crowded House management) plus Australians Roger Grierson (former tour promoter, indie label owner and MD Polygram Music Publishing) and Brian Peacock (Export Music Australia). Tripp sees crucial differences
between the October Seminar and prior NZ seminars. "This one's about How to, others have been whinging about why can't, ours is about what can." The Seminar will be divided into four sessions: 1. Crawl: Getting started as a group or company. 2. Walk: Doing business in your own city. 3. Drive: Going national, touring etc. 4. Fly: Exporting music, working overseas.
Tripp sees the crucial lack in New Zealand as the infrastructure, the people behind the scenes helping the musicians. "Musicians need support teams. The seminar is aims to encourage and inform young entre-
preneurs as well as musicians. In the 90s the music business is about business, not about music, necessarily. The people who will help the New Zealand industry to grow will be the people
working behind the musicians. Very few talents succeed without great support systems — managers, agents, promoters, studio owners, publicists." Local industry persons on panels include lawyer Noel Agnew, TVFM's Karyn Hay, Pagan's Trevor Reekie, writer Graham Reid, RipltUp's Murray Cammick, singer Moana, promoter lan Magan, BFM's Graeme Hunphreys, NZ-ON-Alß's Brendan Smyth and Marmalade Stu-
dio's Rocky Douche. The seminar fee is SIOO for two days and Tripp claims musicians would be better off spending SIOO on being better informed about the music industry than spending it on better gear.
For additional info, get a registration form from your local music shop, check out the advert in RipltUp or contact Show Travel, Auckland (09) 627-1505 or Immedia PR, Sydney (00612) 212-6677.
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Rip It Up, Issue 182, 1 September 1992, Page 2
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