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Speaker 1: Now talking of growth to eighteen years in the Capitol,

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Speaker 1: Jim Beams Homegrown Festival is moving cities. In twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: organizers say now the event has grown to two big

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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand punters. Now Wellington's waterfront location has become

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Speaker 1: too small. Home Grown Festival director Andrew Tech joins me.

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Speaker 2: Now, Hello Andrew, Hello Andrew, how are you today?

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Speaker 1: Very good? But it's leaving Wellington. You couldn't find anywhere

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Speaker 1: else hot wreck, full, hot wreck, busy, brew town.

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Speaker 3: We looked everywhere to see if we could accommodate inside Wellington.

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Speaker 2: Have been looking at that for the last couple of years.

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Speaker 3: And unfortunately there is no where we can actually move

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Speaker 3: the people in a comfortable fashion that'll actually tick all

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Speaker 3: the boxes and make sure that they are happy.

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Speaker 2: First and foremost.

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Speaker 1: You've got twenty five thousand punters, how many do you want?

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Speaker 2: It's also much about the number of people.

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Speaker 3: It's about what else we can showcase, and New Zealand's

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Speaker 3: got a lot, a lot of changes. If we look

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Speaker 3: back to two thousand and eight, we attend thousand people

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Speaker 3: and three stages, and we've now grown to five stages

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Speaker 3: and twenty five thousand people. So it's about those genres

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Speaker 3: that are coming through in these variety of different ones

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Speaker 3: that really should be showcased, and we just don't have

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Speaker 3: the space there to put them on that stage and

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Speaker 3: show them to people that they want to see them.

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Speaker 1: But it's a lovely stage and Sheehard is going to

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Speaker 1: be playing this year and that's going to be awesome.

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Speaker 1: But that city to city to see bridge is a problem,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's lots of little little bits and pieces

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Speaker 3: that are changing in the Wellington region and we just

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Speaker 3: want to make sure that the artists have the best

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Speaker 3: platform possible see that the audience that attends.

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Speaker 2: I haven't decided that yet, Andrew.

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Speaker 3: We've narrowed down to about three or four spots and

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Speaker 3: we're still doing Digildens on all of those. Have an

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Speaker 3: announcement by the middle to the end of April. We

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Speaker 3: should have an announcement through Very Good.

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Speaker 1: What are the three or four spots you've considered.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not going to share that with you. We'd

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Speaker 3: like to make that a little surprise because.

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Speaker 1: I heard the speculation this morning when people talked about it,

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Speaker 1: and everyone was talking about Hamilton and all sorts of things.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge on the on the Breakfast Show, and I

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Speaker 1: thought to myself, I'm thinking Western Springs, out a field,

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Speaker 1: bigger town, a replacement for the ugand Cea Limits Festival.

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Speaker 2: And that's that's the joy of it.

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Speaker 3: There will be lots of speculation and stuff, but we

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Speaker 3: want to make sure that when we do announced, we

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Speaker 3: do it in the right fashion and make sure our

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Speaker 3: artists and everything are in formed first.

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Speaker 2: You know what I thought. When you've done that, we'll

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Speaker 2: definitely You know what I.

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Speaker 1: Thought when you chuckled as Dickens you've.

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Speaker 3: Nouded no, no, you haven't quite known it, but but

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Speaker 3: I applaud the effort.

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Speaker 1: So thank you. So Aucland is looking probable because of

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Speaker 1: increased population and facilities.

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Speaker 3: It's it's again, it's all all option to being considered

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Speaker 3: across the North and South Lands. So we will once

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Speaker 3: we find the city that we think it can grow

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Speaker 3: for the next eighty years, like we've done eighteen now.

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Speaker 3: Originally when we started, they said we'd only last two

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Speaker 3: years because New zealing music wasn't wasn't strong enough. After

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Speaker 3: eighteen years we've showed that New Zealand music is outstanding.

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Speaker 1: I am from the radio generation that actually in the

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Speaker 1: old day used to not play New Zealand music because

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Speaker 1: it was New Zealand music, and there were huge debates

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Speaker 1: that we had quotas, and then slowly that broke down,

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Speaker 1: and then New Zealand artists took on the world and

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Speaker 1: then we've got like what I say, she had playing

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Speaker 1: a twelve thousand seed arena on its farewell tour and

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Speaker 1: we've got bands filling it all up. This is a

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Speaker 1: sign that New Zealand music is very healthy.

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Speaker 3: It's a fantastic sign and for us, we want to

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Speaker 3: make sure that the generations to come continue to see that.

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Speaker 2: So we want to go another eighteen years.

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Speaker 3: And to do that, we've obviously got to make changes

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Speaker 3: and make sure that we do them in the fashion

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Speaker 3: that will give their long givity and make it even

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Speaker 3: more iconic.

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Speaker 1: It's a great little festival. Andrew, congratulations, well done, and

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Speaker 1: thank you for everything. And I'll see at Western Springs.

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Speaker 1: It is four fifteen.

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