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Speaker 1: We see the five fourteen, and the first live show

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Speaker 1: for the new christ Urt Stadium has been revealed none

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Speaker 1: other than these guys Iconic Here we band. Six sixty

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Speaker 1: Symphony is also going to be performing alongside the May

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Speaker 1: sixteenth is the date with the double head of receiving

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Speaker 1: funding through the government's Events Boost fund. David Higgins is

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Speaker 1: DUCO Events promoted with us this morning. Good morning Dave,

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Ron Hey, no brainers.

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Speaker 2: The book six sixty, Yeah, who was sort of serendipitous.

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Speaker 2: So I've been talking to Brent eccles for a while

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Speaker 2: since I got into music with the Symphony, and we've

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Speaker 2: become friendly, and then we were talking about some sort

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Speaker 2: of collaboration. The government funding came along the stadium. It

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Speaker 2: was one of those things where all the stars aligned

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Speaker 2: and we've ended up with what I think is a

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Speaker 2: magic occasion with the two biggest bands in the country.

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Speaker 2: One is Electronic Dance with Orchestra, the other being six sixty,

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Speaker 2: the biggest man in the country together all sponsored by

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Speaker 2: Minuca fuel of course and kiwibank. So we're delighted.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to convince me I'm coming. But how

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Speaker 1: much did you get from the government fund.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure what

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Speaker 2: the rules are around whether I'm allowed to tell you

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Speaker 2: or not. So what I will say is what I

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Speaker 2: say is most AUSSI states will spend this sort of

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Speaker 2: money annually and have done for a long time. And

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Speaker 2: what it does is it creates visitor night's GDP into

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Speaker 2: the economy, spend, restaurant spas are full, hotels, ripple effect,

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Speaker 2: plus young people want to go live there. You know,

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Speaker 2: you talk about the brain drain. If New Zealand and

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Speaker 2: Auckland spend nothing on events and then all the other

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Speaker 2: states are spending fifty million a year, the brain drain

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Speaker 2: is going to accelerate big time, Isn't it right?

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Speaker 1: I don't disagree. Does would something like this happen without

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Speaker 1: that money?

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Speaker 2: I personally wouldn't have put Synthony into this without this money.

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Speaker 2: These events are very expensive and put on that's a

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Speaker 2: multimillion dollar production. Secondly, you're making a risk return judgment

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Speaker 2: if it's your own neck on the line, your own house.

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Speaker 2: And when New Zealand promoters New Zealand owned, we're deciding, hey,

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Speaker 2: can we sell enough to gets in this market. So

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Speaker 2: having support from sponsors like NUCA Fuel, k WE Bank

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Speaker 2: and government is very helpful and it enables us to

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Speaker 2: confidently go big and put on massive Rasmataz shows that

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Speaker 2: otherwise might not happen. And it makes New Zealand a

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Speaker 2: nice place to live. And I think the overall money

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Speaker 2: is a drop in the ocean of what the government's spending.

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Speaker 2: When as a kid, I might have thought spending fifty

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Speaker 2: seventy million a year on his interaction was a lot

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Speaker 2: of money. And then they spend fifty billion on COVID

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Speaker 2: or whatever it was, and then I realized, how we

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if you're no jump, it's exactly pay jump very quickly.

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Speaker 1: But stadium is it expensive to put gigs on there?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is obviously the first one that's been

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Speaker 1: put on. And how does that compare to say an

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Speaker 1: Eden Park?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. Every dealer is different, Every stadium has

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Speaker 2: a different border, different CEO. Some are not for profit,

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Speaker 2: some are losing money, some are very profitable. I've done

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Speaker 2: deals with some Corps Stadium, Brisbane, Eden Park. This deal,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think they were firm but fair, like

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Speaker 2: they wanted an exciting product for their first event, where

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Speaker 2: good negotiators. I think we'd land in a place that

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Speaker 2: was fear to them and fear to us. But big

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Speaker 2: stadiums are always expensive. It's not just the rental. You've

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Speaker 2: got to pay for generators and ambulance staff, and security

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Speaker 2: and ushers and you know, just traffic management and about

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Speaker 2: one hundred budget lines the public would not think about

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Speaker 2: on top of the rental.

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Speaker 1: Dave, appreciate your time this morning, looking forward to the gig.

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Speaker 1: Dave Higgins. Duco Events promoted Time for more.

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