R&V has had some amazing artists over the years. From musical legends like Public Enemy and Moby, urban pop stars like Tinie Tempah and Santogold, DJ superstars like Carl Cox and Justice, through to homegrown favourites Fat Freddys Drop and Shapeshifter.
It is a real honor to be able to host these kinds of acts in our corner of the globe. Especially since R&V has only been at international level for the last three years!
But still the punters want more. So I thought I would tell you a bit more about the challenges we face when piecing our lineup together.
Hey I am as bigger music lover as anyone and would love to see a number of my idols and heroes on stage. And it is not as though we don't try and get a number of acts to perform at R&V, quite the opposite, we spend all year hustling, door knocking, emailing and phoning some of the biggetts agents in the world trying to book these acts.
But there is always a reason such as timeframes, money, booking already we can't always get everyone we want.
for e.g. this year in particular
Get the Foo Fighters! - they are coming in Dec already for their own show
Get Prodigy - they have come twice in the past 18 months, not touring
Get Chemical Brothers - they came earlier this year, not touring
Get Kanye - coming for Big Day Out
Get The Strokes - Im trying! Even slipped a card under the managers door in New York!
Ok what about other kiwi acts?
Get Shapeshifter - they are already booked, playing at their own festival Coromandel Gold.
Get Fat Freddy's then - they are already booked, don't like playing big kiwi festivals anymore
Get Katchafire - playing at BW (same city, same week?)
Get Six60 - we have!
Ok then well why dont you get Daft Punk we get asked. Get the world's most exclusive (/reclusive) live dance act, with the huge light pyramid production on the most expensive night of the year, on the corner of the globe! Ok sure!
Earlier this year I actually sat down with the agent for Daft Punk. Will they be available to offer on for a NZ booking? His answer: Your guess is as good as mine Hamish. He waits for them to contact him with their plans and they haven't been in touch with confirmed touring plans in the last 4 years.
Why? well here are some facts to consider.
a) they have only ever toured twice
b) there was 7 years between those two tours
c) they last time they toured was four years ago
d) they don't do one off DJ sets
e) they are french - so as we know in rugby the only thing you can rely on with them is their unpreticability.
Either way I did hear on the industry grapevine they got offered seven figures to play some big US festival next year. That is more than double our program budget alone! So we may be seeing them out on the road next year.
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