Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / David Higgins: Duco Events Promoter on the first live show at the new Christchurch One NZ Stadium at Te Kaha

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David Higgins: Duco Events Promoter on the first live show at the new Christchurch One NZ Stadium at Te Kaha · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We see the five fourteen, and the first live show
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  Speaker 1: for the new christ Urt Stadium has been revealed none
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  Speaker 1: other than these guys Iconic Here we band. Six sixty
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  Speaker 1: Symphony is also going to be performing alongside the May
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth is the date with the double head of receiving
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  Speaker 1: funding through the government's Events Boost fund. David Higgins is
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  Speaker 1: DUCO Events promoted with us this morning. Good morning Dave,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ron Hey, no brainers.
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  Speaker 2: The book six sixty, Yeah, who was sort of serendipitous.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been talking to Brent eccles for a while
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  Speaker 2: since I got into music with the Symphony, and we've
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  Speaker 2: become friendly, and then we were talking about some sort
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  Speaker 2: of collaboration. The government funding came along the stadium. It
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  Speaker 2: was one of those things where all the stars aligned
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  Speaker 2: and we've ended up with what I think is a
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  Speaker 2: magic occasion with the two biggest bands in the country.
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  Speaker 2: One is Electronic Dance with Orchestra, the other being six sixty,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest man in the country together all sponsored by
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  Speaker 2: Minuca fuel of course and kiwibank. So we're delighted.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to convince me I'm coming. But how
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  Speaker 1: much did you get from the government fund.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not to be honest, I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 2: the rules are around whether I'm allowed to tell you
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  Speaker 2: or not. So what I will say is what I
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  Speaker 2: say is most AUSSI states will spend this sort of
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  Speaker 2: money annually and have done for a long time. And
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  Speaker 2: what it does is it creates visitor night's GDP into
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  Speaker 2: the economy, spend, restaurant spas are full, hotels, ripple effect,
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  Speaker 2: plus young people want to go live there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you talk about the brain drain. If New Zealand and
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  Speaker 2: Auckland spend nothing on events and then all the other
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  Speaker 2: states are spending fifty million a year, the brain drain
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  Speaker 2: is going to accelerate big time, Isn't it right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't disagree. Does would something like this happen without
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  Speaker 1: that money?
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  Speaker 2: I personally wouldn't have put Synthony into this without this money.
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  Speaker 2: These events are very expensive and put on that's a
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  Speaker 2: multimillion dollar production. Secondly, you're making a risk return judgment
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  Speaker 2: if it's your own neck on the line, your own house.
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  Speaker 2: And when New Zealand promoters New Zealand owned, we're deciding, hey,
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  Speaker 2: can we sell enough to gets in this market. So
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  Speaker 2: having support from sponsors like NUCA Fuel, k WE Bank
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  Speaker 2: and government is very helpful and it enables us to
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  Speaker 2: confidently go big and put on massive Rasmataz shows that
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  Speaker 2: otherwise might not happen. And it makes New Zealand a
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  Speaker 2: nice place to live. And I think the overall money
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  Speaker 2: is a drop in the ocean of what the government's spending.
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  Speaker 2: When as a kid, I might have thought spending fifty
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  Speaker 2: seventy million a year on his interaction was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. And then they spend fifty billion on COVID
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it was, and then I realized, how we
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if you're no jump, it's exactly pay jump very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: But stadium is it expensive to put gigs on there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is obviously the first one that's been
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  Speaker 1: put on. And how does that compare to say an
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  Speaker 1: Eden Park?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good question. Every dealer is different, Every stadium has
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  Speaker 2: a different border, different CEO. Some are not for profit,
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  Speaker 2: some are losing money, some are very profitable. I've done
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  Speaker 2: deals with some Corps Stadium, Brisbane, Eden Park. This deal,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think they were firm but fair, like
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  Speaker 2: they wanted an exciting product for their first event, where
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  Speaker 2: good negotiators. I think we'd land in a place that
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  Speaker 2: was fear to them and fear to us. But big
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  Speaker 2: stadiums are always expensive. It's not just the rental. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to pay for generators and ambulance staff, and security
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  Speaker 2: and ushers and you know, just traffic management and about
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  Speaker 2: one hundred budget lines the public would not think about
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  Speaker 2: on top of the rental.
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  Speaker 1: Dave, appreciate your time this morning, looking forward to the gig.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Higgins. Duco Events promoted Time for more.
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