NZ Music Month panel discussion at the Audio Foundation tonight

17th May 2012

The Audio Foundation will host a discussion on the relevance and value of NZ Music Month this evening with three esteemed panelists shining a light on the yearly institution. This discussion will take place from 7pm at the Audio Foundation HQ (4 Poynton Terrace, Auckland), moderated by regular NZM contributor Gareth Shute and featuring guest panelists Kiran Dass, Duncan Greive and Joseph Nunweek.

Audio of the discussion will be posted online the following day.

http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/

About the panelists

Kiran Dass is an Auckland based writer and reviewer who has written about music, film and books for the NZ Listener, Sunday Star-Times, Metro, Landfall, Real Groove, Rip it Up, NZ Musician, NZ Herald, Dominion Post, No, Pavement and Staple.

Duncan Greive is a journalist who has written extensively about music for magazines and websites including Metro, Sunday, The NZ Herald, Volume, The Corner. He edited youth pop culture magazine Real Groove from 2006-2009, has contributed to radio programmes on bFM and Radio New Zealand and conducted a brief, unsuccessful foray into artist management.

Joe Nunweek has written about music for Craccum, Real Groove, 1972, and Volume and at some point basically resigned himself to hitting every branch on the way down as he fell off the tree of print media. He also writes for The Pantograph Punch and wrangles policy for a day job.

Gareth Shute is the author of four books on NZ music and the arts. His first book, 'Hip Hop Music In Aotearoa', went on to win at the New Zealand book awards.