How can you not love Gwen Stefani? I know I’m a tad repetitive and say this everytime either Gwen or No Doubt release a new track, but you simply cannot deny her beauty, attitude, style and downright mega coolness. Here we have Rich Girl, another hot little pop number from her debut solo album Love, Angel, Music, Baby. So what’s so good about it? Well apart from being catchy as hell and having a whole bunch of “na-na-na’s”, it features a rap from Eve, production from Dr. Dre and a chorus lifted from (1964 musical) Fiddler On The Roof’s If I Were A Rich Man. What more do you want? Pirates and Japanese Harajuku girls? Well check out the clip released two weeks ago on CX107.
	R&B is really making an impact on the Aussie music scene these days and Australia has finally unearthed a world class R&B star - Jade Macrae. Jade has been musical since the age of three, eventually ending up at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Rather than packing shelves to pay her way through school, she began singing with whoever needed a solid vocalist. She’s in a band with Jimmy Barnes’ daughter Mahalia and has performed with Jimmy himself, Renee Geyer, Disco Montego, Pnau and Endorphin. Her vocals have also featured on a German number 1 but now she directs her attention to her own compositions.
	The second single from Jade, So Hot Right Now, is a hook-friendly groove about a girl’s night out complete with sleazy pick-up lines, line jumpers and annoying club doormen. It features the rap skills of Melbourne-based singer/producer/songwriter Israel who, incidentally, has also just released his own smooth, feel-good jam Old Skool Luv - a song about the good ol’ days of R&B when Bobby and Whitney were normal and before Boyz II Men were the punchline of a Michael Jackson joke. You’ll find both Aussie R&B stars - Jade and Israel on CR107.
	Recently I was dragged along to legendary BrisVegas live venue The Zoo by a workmate to see underground hiphop sensation Atmosphere. Admittedly I didn’t know much of the music and really didn’t know what to expect. I was blown away! Backed by a tight four-piece band, Atmosphere brainchild Slug easily rivals the best of his hiphop peers and spat rhymes about “real” issues that were clever, complex and distinctly anti-gangsta. Turning down hundreds of record contracts and refusing to succumb to commercialism, Atmosphere have won fans worldwide thanks to Slug’s personal and poetic musings. This month we’ve released two new tracks, National Disgrace and Trying To Find A Balance on CX107 and CR107 respectively.
	A Balance on CX107 and CR107 respectively. If you managed to catch the 2004 ARIA’s or the recent Tsunami Benefit Telethon, then you’d have heard of The Wrights - the Aussie supergroup who have re-recorded Evie, the classic rock trilogy by the Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright. The group was instigated by Jet vocalist Nic Cester and features a who’s who of current Aussie rock including Chris Cheney (The Living End), Kram (Spiderbait), Dave Laine (You Am I/The Pictures) and Pat Bourke (Dallas Crane). Nic takes lead vocal for part 1 with guest vocalists Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon) singing on parts 2 and 3 respectively. Released to retail later this month, all proceeds will go to Stevie Wright and The Salvation Army. We’ve released audio only versions of all three parts as a bonus to RD subscribers with a HDMS™. All of a sudden it’s 1974 again!

	Author - Ben Preece
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DJ Throb - Jones Bar. Jones Bar in Palmerston North, New Zealand throbs with around 700 groovers almost every night of the week and for a population the size of Palmerston North's, that's equivalent to filling Suncorp Stadium here in Brisbane if you were to do a per capita comparison. DJ Throb, aka Luke Waghorn is the man responsible for getting the venue rocking and has been a fan of Nightlife systems since he first broke into DJing around 4 years ago.

Luke's day job is engraving and 'Mr Minuting' and in his spare time he enjoys the company of his pet turtles, Mr & Mrs Bojangles! He's not really into cars: “They get you from A to B”, and is more concerned about having a decent sound system than what's under the bonnet.

Billie Jean is fave song; and fave artist of all time including the person Luke would most like to meet is, of course, Michael Jackson. Fave current song is Drop It Like It's Hot, Snoop Dogg.

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Technically Speaking
Installing Your New Music Updates

As a client of Nightlife Music Video you receive fresh new music monthly, whether it is the latest hits on the pop charts, brand new easy-listening, or funky grooves from our Café list.

These updates are sent to you by DVD-ROM and are an extremely important factor that not only keeps you 'in-tune' with the latest music, but also with the latest version of the Nightlife software. With Nightlife's team of software programmers constantly developing the HDMS™, these monthly updates bring you all the latest technological advancements and improved features.

To check which music updates you subscribe to, go to the Utilities>About menu.

How to install your new music

1. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight the Utilities option on the HDMS™ program on the monitor and press [Enter]

2. Arrow down to Install CD and press [Enter]

3. A message will appear asking Stop current song and clear playlist? This is a warning that the music will stop during the install. Arrow up to Yes and press [Enter] if you wish to proceed with the install.

4. The CD/DVD-ROM drive draw of the PC will automatically open and a message will appear on your monitor saying Put the install CD in your ROM drive and press [Enter] to continue or [Esc] to Quit. Follow these instructions.

5. The CD/DVD-ROM drive draw will close automatically and the disc will start installing.

6. Once this is complete the HDMS™ will re-boot and music will start playing again.

7. Leave the disc in the CD/DVD-ROM drive.

Once the install is complete you can verify that your music updates have installed by looking in the Install Log (located Search>Install Log).

For help with this, or any other matters regarding your Hard Drive Music System, please call our Customer Support Centre toll free on 1800 773 468.

News from NZ

It was a pleasure to recently host Nightlife guests from Australia and the USA (the big cheeses!). The purpose of the trip was to examine how our product performs in the New Zealand marketplace and the reasons for its success. This helps us to gain valuable insights which we can then apply to our other markets internationally.

For those of our clients who received a visit, thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. The guests were highly impressed with the friendliness of New Zealanders and were bemused by our forthrightness. Apparently we say it just how it is, no beating about the bush; an approach they found refreshing. They were also very impressed with the venues they visited, the themes which have evolved, design layouts, service etc etc.

Of course, we operate in one the most de-regulated liquor markets in the world, meaning that anyone with $1,500 for a licence can open a venue and go hard. This leads to a situation whereby there are a multitude of 'niche' operators, unique to themselves, impacting on the market in many ways. However, the guests concluded that the Nightlife venues were, on a whole, a cut above the rest of the industry and all enjoying majority market share.

As if we didn't already know that ....

Happy New Year! The NZ Team

Nightlife New Zealand Ph: Whangarei 09 430 3035

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