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Dave Dobbyn 2

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When we spoke to Dave Dobbyn (who has just won the APRA Silver Scroll) there was, of course, too much information for just one article, so this week at Suite101.com New Zealand Music, we are pleased to bring you more highlights from that interview.

Dave on what comes after the Islander:

"I've got some movie music coming up and I've got another record to make with an old friend of mine, Ian Morris, so I just work at songwriting all the time. I'm always writing a song, I'm always interested in how other people's songs are put together, so for my own record, The Islander, that's a songwriter's album. I've got a film soundtrack coming up for a Jane Campion produced film called Soft Fruit and that's going to be fun."

On working with Ian Morris outside of th'Dudes:

"Well he was in DD Smash for about a year because the first bass player had a car accident one summer in Whitinganga on the way to Waihi, so Ian took over for the rest of the summer tour but he ended up staying for about a year. But him and I went to school together and all that and we've got very similar music tastes - it's quite eclectic."

On his love for student radio:

"Student radio throughout the country is firing, it's fantastic- I listen to bFM all the time - I can't listen to commercial radio and the student radio stations down the country are really good too. By default, they are out youth radio network in a way and everyone runs it themselves, so they're not regulated and after all the whole market's not regulated at all, so that anything goes."

On local content:

"The more dialogue there is across the board between the commercial corporations and radio, record companies and television, we can keep a dialogue going just to educate stations and the station managers as to what people really want - which is something that doesn't insult their intelligence and isn't so bland and mediocre and imported Pizza Hut culture. It doesn't really work and it can't be the whole picture either, you know, and that's why I'm so vocal about local programmes being produced and aired."

On his Internet concert from a few years ago:

"It was a rather unfortunate experience - the ISDN line wasn't too good at the time and compression wasn't working properly so there was a lot of hiccups in the process. And then my guitar leads started buzzing and squeaking, and the people at the gig were all confused as to what was going on. But yeah, we got a few sites up around the world with people listening."

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