Checking my emails today and I saw this and realised that I'd completely forgot to 'sign' the thing.
Sarah, the starter of the petition and the petition is going to be on TV3 news. I hope someone decent conducts the interview, rather than someone who'll act like their filming for a retirement home. "So, the distorted guitars,aye?" "dressing differently, aye?" "Shouting and screaming, aye?"
"I'll naturally finish asking questions based on my assumption that things like Metal music is a fringe element in society, isolated to small pockets of generic stereotypes, which I might try & make fun of with outdated and under researched shity jokes which would get me fired were they aimed at a racial or gender group, RATHER than being all penetrative of society's perceived boundaries, and in actual fact I can't tell whether any of my well-to-do co-workers, the guy selling my something or my boss are closet metalheads, or maybe at a stretch, is related to one."
From Sarah (Blackfrog event and artist management)
Many of you will be aware of this petition.. it recently closed with just under 800 signatures. BUT TV3 now want to do a story on the petition and the story behind it so luckily I was able to continue the petition. If you have already signed it then I would like to thank you for your support. It would be awesome if you could support my cause even more by forwarding on the details to your friends and contacts - the more noise we make the more likely our voices will be heard!
Why I started the petition... having worked at the VNZMA the last two years I have made so many contacts and have been able to rub shoulders with numerous record label reps, TV presenters, News reporters and the list goes on! All the bands that are nominated for an award or perform at the awards get to meet all these people as well. It seems to me that it's not fair that the 'popular' bands who already have a lot of label backing etc seem to get to make MORE contacts while yet again METAL gets forgotten about. I don't aim to make METAL MAINSTREAM! It never will be! BUT I would like Metal bands/musicians to be eligible to make the same contacts and have the same opportunities that the current genres eligible for the VNZMA already receive. I know a few other METAL fans DON'T agree with me starting this petition because they think that either the METAL scene doesn't need it or that it will become MAINSTREAM.. real METAL bands/fans will NEVER let METAL become mainstream!
I see the METAL scene as being in a very exciting place right now. NZ on Air have FINALLY changed their eligibility criteria for non 'popular' bands, there are more METAL radio and TV shows now than there was in the past. NZ METAL bands are getting more and more recognition overseas (touring Europe, Australia, Asia) and selling out those gigs! If something doesn't change within the Music Industry in NZ we are going to be saying goodbye to more and more talented musicians who will join the brain drain and move overseas because the opportunities are greater over there.
You can sign the petition here => http://www.thepetitionsite.
If you are on facebook you can find me here => http://www.facebook.com/
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