Don’t Give Me Kulcha
Fair Dinkum of Christchurch says (February Letters) Kulcha has received an NZ On Air grant. He’s wrong. No NZ On Air funding has gone into Kulcha records or vids. A Kulcha track was included on NZ On Air’s Kiwi Hit Disc 10, but no money changes hands with Kiwi Hit Disc tracks.
Yes — Failsafe did get video funding from NZ On Air for Throw and Malchicks projects. The bands’ bloodlines and domestics are not an issue from our point of view. What’s important to us is: (a) is it New Zealand music?; and (b) is it going to get airplay? We get 300 applications for video funding every year. We can do 90 projects. Pumpkinhead missed out with ‘I Like’, but picked up funding for ‘Water’ and ‘Third Eye’, not because the band is made up of “hardworking, full-blooded kiwis”, or because of where they are living at the moment, but because of the broadcast potential of the tracks.
Brendan Smyth, NZ On Air, Wellington.
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Rip It Up, Issue 211, 1 March 1995, Page 8
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