Selwyn Times: July 05, 2016
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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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