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Music Month 2005 - with the Black poster and T-shirt - got off to a rocket-fuelled<br />
start with the live Shihad concert in Aotea Square. Despite the rain, around eight<br />
thousand rocked while Jon and co. tore up the stage. The concert, beautifully<br />
filmed and replayed on C4, was the best-possible start to the best ever<br />
Music Month.<br />
There was lots more television including TV2’s first ever Song Star, masterminded<br />
by Mike Chunn, where the public saw five unknown songwriters selected<br />
and their songs performed live and voted for on television. The winner was<br />
Lachlan Taingahue from Gisborne who’s track “I’ll keep on Rapping” was<br />
produced by Nate D from the Dawn Raid studios.<br />
Other highlights included the annual RBA NZ Music Showcase in Auckland,<br />
tours by the D4, the Fanatics, Katchafire, Goodnight Nurse, 48 May, Emerald and<br />
others and the Hallensteins T-shirts selling out nationwide.<br />
Steriogram played Parliament steps to bemused MPs while in Britain The<br />
Checks did the NME New Music tour and in LA Goldenhorse and Evermore<br />
appeared at heavyweight industry conference Musexpo.<br />
Chartwise, Fat Freddy’s and Savage topped the album and singles charts<br />
respectively and radio airplay was massive.<br />
There were also seminars, Pao!Pao!Pao! in Wellington, a youth music forum<br />
at Tai Poutini in Greymouth - including killer performances by local bands Puha<br />
and Kortion - and countless other locally-generated activities. We hope you got<br />
involved in some of them.<br />
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<strong>APRAP</strong> <strong>June</strong> 2005<br />
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