1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: Christ success train rolls on. The American multinational Live Nation 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: has gone and bought Team Event. Now that's the company 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,240 Speaker 1: behind Electric Avenue. You know Electric Avenue. Last summer's festival 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: delivered Christ Jutch as big as visitors spend in a decade. 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: Lton Lili's president of the New Zealand Promoters Association and 6 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:16,760 Speaker 1: is with us late in morning. 7 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, how are you today? 8 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: Very well? Thank you? Is this a classic business movie? 9 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: Start something, you grow, hope that someone big comes along 10 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: and gives you money. Is that how it works? All? 11 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: This is just one of those weird things that happened. 12 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: I think it's a sort of a happy coincidence. I mean, 13 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: I think we just have to give credit where credits due. 14 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: This festival's part of I guess the arts renaissance and 15 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: crisis that's happened over the last decade or so, and 16 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 2: it's just expanded and expanded and clearly gotten on the 17 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 2: runway of Live Nation. Who have gone. You know what, 18 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: we can add something to this festival, we can safeguarded 19 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 2: into the future and yeah, keep it going for a 20 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 2: long time to come and have to say, in the 21 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 2: environment we've had in the last few years with festivals. 22 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 2: It's actually a good thing I think for the New Zealander. 23 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about the festival to 24 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: come to that in the moment. But Live Nation being 25 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: an international, does it just become another thing a commodity 26 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: as opposed to what it was, or they can bring 27 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: heft that will enhance it. 28 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: Well, that's the million dollar question. I hope that this 29 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: very unique festival that has been born out of christ 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 2: Church somehow keeps its local feel to it and it 31 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 2: doesn't just become another homogeneous international version of something that 32 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: Live Nation do us where. But I think what they're 33 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 2: going to do is they're going to put some big 34 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 2: financial might behind it. The biggest thing festivals have a 35 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: problem with is securing these big name acts to actually 36 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: pull the punters, and that's what Live Nation will give them. 37 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: I guess yeah, that festival thing. So in Australia you 38 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 1: can't buy a festival for love nor money. Something's gone 39 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: wrong with festivals. Is that the same here or do 40 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: you need to have something in it that's different or 41 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,320 Speaker 1: what's going on? 42 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 2: It must be because Australia is having huge troubles with it. 43 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 2: Yet for the longest time, England have had these run 44 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 2: of long running festivals and you know what, for years, 45 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 2: if you go back, New Zealand had major problems with festivals. 46 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: You know Sweetwaters way back when I was a child, 47 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: the Neon Picnic all went went bust. But in recent years, 48 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,959 Speaker 2: starting with Rhythm and Vines and that, we've managed to 49 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 2: figure it all out again. Yeah. I don't know. The 50 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: New Zealand public must like something about America. Maybe it's 51 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: Hagley Park, It's going somewhere unique to watch great music acts. 52 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: Whatever they've done, whatever they's secret sources, it's working and 53 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: you know they obviously have got a plan to make 54 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 2: it get even bigger. 55 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: Fantastic. Good on you late and appreciate it very much. 56 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: Late in Littlis, I was just trying to work out 57 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: whether I got boot electric avenue, and I can't remember 58 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 1: if her electric avenue. Kadie and I hosted an event 59 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: in christ Church a couple of years ago. I think 60 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: I might have been Christmas in the parkle so I 61 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: can't remember. Anyway, a couple of winers got onto the 62 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: local rag and they said, Hospit is coming to christ 63 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: and we know we're gonna But I think my reception 64 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: was reasonably good. I did get boot at Deepak Chopra. 65 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: That was a funny night. Now I might say that 66 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: till after eight o'clock. Just I'm just thinking about lux 67 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: and getting booed at the Nitball, which I don't even 68 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: know he did get boot at the Nitball. To be honest, 69 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: if you listened to the noise, it was a lot 70 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: of background kind oh yeah, yah yah, like you know 71 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: what I mean, after the netball, the game's over. I 72 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: got properly booed. I mean, you know, I got boot 73 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: better than LUCKX and got I got booted better at Chopper, 74 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,239 Speaker 1: then Luxe and got boot at the netphilk boot by Deepak. No, 75 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: Deepac loved me. Me and Deepak got on like a 76 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: house on fire, which was the ironic thing because people 77 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: are misinterpreting some people don't like me, just just just 78 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: to give us some background, some people don't like me, 79 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: and so this got a bit carried away. At this 80 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: I was hosting an evening with Deepak Chopra and I 81 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: came out on stage and people started booing. I thought, well, 82 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: the hell's this is Deepak Chopper. For God's sake, you's 83 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: supposed to be spirits and loves and be at peace 84 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 1: with each other, and a bunch of I'm sure they 85 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: were saying oom, exactly a bunch of losers in the 86 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: audience getting all eggra. In fact, I called them losers. 87 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: Probably didn't help them. That's why the booing sort of achrise. 88 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 89 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 2: news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 90 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.