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Andrew Tuck: Homegrown CEO on the festival's return to Hamilton, this year's lineup · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Home Ground Festival is back, but it's forgotten its roots.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow kicks off in Hamilton, Goodbye Wellington, host thousands of hunters,
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  Speaker 1: seven stages, forty ki We music acts. That's your six sixty.
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  Speaker 1: These guys lab Sons designed the little be there. Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Tuck is the Home Ground Festival founder with us this morning,
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  Speaker 1: Morning Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Brian.
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  Speaker 1: How are you yeah good? You're a ready to go
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: I'll mate, we are. We're amthy medis again my friend?
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  Speaker 1: What's the lineup looking like this year?
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  Speaker 2: I would say it would be the strongest line up
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  Speaker 2: we've ever put together. We've we've some men, managed to
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  Speaker 2: secure some some pretty good acts like you know, Super
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  Speaker 2: Groove and some of my pretties are coming back. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty special. And adding in with Hello Sailor fifty years
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  Speaker 2: in the making. I mean, we've got the young, and
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  Speaker 2: we've got the new, we've got the old. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And are you glad you're not in Wellington?
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  Speaker 2: We're some beautiful weather at Hamilton that has been so nice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty happy. We think the people on the ground
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  Speaker 2: have I've been complaining out hot of this, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty happy to be a bback home.
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  Speaker 1: What are the numbers looking like for you so far, Andrew?
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  Speaker 1: Ticket sales wise.
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  Speaker 2: They're looking really good. Actually, they're looking really good. We're
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  Speaker 2: we're on trajectory to do what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, let's hope we can get to here at
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  Speaker 2: the end.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to make some money.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the governm. I'm not quite sure if we're
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  Speaker 2: ever going to make money at the end and the events,
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  Speaker 2: you know, prices keep going up on things and everything
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  Speaker 2: keeps happening, but we'll do the best care.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you about that. The situation within
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  Speaker 1: the Middle East, you know, the air fears going up,
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  Speaker 1: You've got petrol going up, diesel going up, all that
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Does it have an impact on New
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  Speaker 1: Years or is that something for a worry for another day?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think they'd be worried for another day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're pretty fortunate that everybody if we've got
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  Speaker 2: as local so they're a flying or driving, and that's
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  Speaker 2: already been locked in and done. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: those sort of impacts will roll through probably twelve months time,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully by then it's all over and we're not
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  Speaker 2: dealing with it.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have a festival that just keeps going. I
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  Speaker 1: know you've moved cities, but you know you're still going.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Woe Matter is coming back, but splors
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  Speaker 1: closing down. What how do you keep one running and
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  Speaker 1: make sure that you're not having to throw it on
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  Speaker 1: the bin because of the cost.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look, it gets harder and harder, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to lie about that. You know, costs and everything
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  Speaker 2: keep going up and there's only so much you can
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  Speaker 2: charge for a ticket, so you know, the bit in
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  Speaker 2: the middle just keeps getting smaller and smaller. So yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: it is tough, but you know, people that are still
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  Speaker 2: doing it are still fighting the fine fight and doing
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  Speaker 2: the best they can to hold it together for that
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  Speaker 2: for that period of time until things go back to
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  Speaker 2: normal and then we'll be away again.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, good luck for tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thank you so much having us and you know,
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  Speaker 2: no worry still.
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  Speaker 1: Got tickets left? I understand too, So you can grab
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  Speaker 1: one if you're in the troll Andrew Truck, Andrew Tuck,
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  Speaker 1: I should say Homegrown Festival found that.
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