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Tuesday <strong>July</strong> 5 <strong>2016</strong><br />

Our People<br />

SELWYN TIMES<br />

David Parlane<br />

Entertaining <strong>Selwyn</strong> residents<br />

Lincoln resident David Parlane is one half of the<br />

team behind a company promising to bring more<br />

events to <strong>Selwyn</strong> – the first a show featuring<br />

some of New Zealand’s leading comedians in<br />

October. He spoke to reporter Tom Doudney<br />

about helping bring the Penrith Panthers NRL<br />

team to Christchurch earlier this year, how his<br />

company got the name ‘3 Coins Gentlemen’ and<br />

his time as a DJ in Palmerston North.<br />

How long have you lived in<br />

Lincoln?<br />

I’ve been in the <strong>Selwyn</strong> district<br />

for close to 18 years and<br />

we moved from Prebbleton to<br />

Lincoln about 10 or 11 years ago.<br />

But I’m still not a local – I’ve<br />

been told I’ve got another 20<br />

years before you can actually call<br />

yourself a real Lincolnite.<br />

Maybe your grandkids will be<br />

able to call themselves Lincolnites.<br />

Yeah, maybe. It’s a bit of a joke<br />

around here to say ‘you haven’t<br />

been here for 30 years yet, so how<br />

can you call yourself a local?’<br />

So you dipped your toes in<br />

with Prebbleton obviously before<br />

diving right in to Lincoln.<br />

My family is from Prebbleton<br />

so when we first moved back<br />

down from the North Island we<br />

came to Prebbleton. Then we<br />

went for a Saturday afternoon<br />

drive and fell in love with a<br />

house and decided to move out<br />

here [to Lincoln]. I keep telling<br />

my wife it was the most expensive<br />

bloody Saturday afternoon<br />

drive I’ve ever had!<br />

When you were general<br />

manager with Douglas Projects<br />

International you were<br />

involved with bringing the<br />

Penrith Panthers NRL team to<br />

Christchurch in May. Did you<br />

face many challenges in making<br />

that happen or did it all go<br />

pretty smoothly?<br />

It all went very smoothly actually.<br />

It was a fantastic event – I<br />

mean, it was a sell-out crowd and<br />

the Panthers organisation was<br />

fantastic to work with.<br />

You’ve been involved in organising<br />

events for a while now<br />

– what’s it like when it doesn’t<br />

PROMOTER: David Parlane’s company is bringing several of the country’s leading comedians<br />

to Lincoln on October 8. Live in Lincoln will feature Jeremy Corbett who hosts TV3’s Seven<br />

Days, along with Ben Hurley, Justine Smith and Tom Furniss. The show will be held at The<br />

Lincoln Event Centre. Tickets can be bought from The Famous Grouse Hotel or by emailing<br />

lincolnticketsnz@gmail.com<br />

PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />

go so well? Have you ever been<br />

involved with bringing an event<br />

to an area and it didn’t pull<br />

much of a crowd?<br />

I haven’t ever had that to be<br />

quite honest. My career spans<br />

back to the early 1980s when<br />

I started as a young guy who<br />

wanted to be a broadcaster and<br />

wanted to get into radio, it was<br />

sort of my lifetime dream, so I<br />

have been around promotions<br />

and events since way back then.<br />

It’s only been in the last seven or<br />

eight years that I have got into<br />

large international events such<br />

as the international ice hockey<br />

which we ran in Australia and<br />

New Zealand and being part<br />

of the team which brought<br />

professional bull riding to<br />

Christchurch a couple of years<br />

ago as well. It has just been a fun<br />

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