A GOOD YEAR...
For Nightlife Music + Video, 2007 has been nothing short of spectacular! Take a look at what this year brought us:
• The Music Department released over 2,100 brand new songs including 1,126 videos and 1,062 audio only tracks throughout the year. Furthermore a number of exciting new lists have been introduced including CAFE_JAZZ, WARM_UP, CAFE_WORLD and DJ_TOOLS, all of which were designed to create an atmosphere conducive to your demographic. Even more content agreements with International and Australian major and independent record labels were signed.
• Nightlife introduced the Client Relationship Manager (CRM) role across the Client Services Department. The role entails being the client’s single point of contact from installations to follow up support. Each CRM is assigned a territory and belongs to a territory team made up of a Business Development Manager, a Territory Co-ordinator and three CRMs, allowing each team to take complete ownership of their clients needs. Music management continued to come into the forefront of our service this year as we focussed on managing client’s music and media, eventuating in the ability to export your HDMS™ custom data and settings to a USB memory stick where we can analyse your playing music history and habits and ensure your music matches the atmosphere you’re trying to create.
• This year saw the delivery of a major HDMS™ software upgrade to all our customers with the release of software version 3.2. The new version of software provides our clients with a “new look” interface along with an easier way to program the very best music through the introduction of colour coded list groups.
• A focus on internal and external training, resources, promotion of a healthy wellbeing and structured staff development programs were implemented to embrace a core focus of clients first. Among our 60+ staff, Nightlife employed a National Training Manager whose role is to service clients’ needs from a training perspective ensuring they get the most out of their HDMS™. If you would like onsite training for your group, please give us a call.
• Accounts processes have been streamlined both internally and externally. To make things easier for our larger group clients, Nightlife now provides consolidated invoices. For our individual clients, we have introduced BPay as another payment method to make monthly payments easier.
• This year the Marketing Team gained momentum through a variety of mediums. Nightlife took a much bigger presence at a number of local and international tradeshows, allowing for greater company exposure and a chance for some of our clients to come meet us face to face. Advertising billboards have taken on a new direction in promoting venues through advancements in Flash animation. If you would like help to get advertising billboards started in your venue give us a call.
• Our Quality Assurance process has been refined to ensure each HDMS™ is of the highest standard. The Manufacturing team put each system through a more stringent quality assurance check covering everything from making sure software and hardware perform correctly (including, video and audio testing) through to making sure every last screw is double checked and the hard drives are set up to match music to the venue.
2007 has been a year of growth and innovation for Nightlife. As a national company providing music management solutions to venues throughout Australia, we are pleased to be moving forward into 2008 with our focal point firmly on product development, music and media management. Nightlife is committed to providing exceptional customer service, offering phone support 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Our commitment is to ensure you always have music playing in your venue.
Looking forward to an exceptional 2008!
AT YOUR SERVICE!
A ‘Health Check’ for your Nightlife System...
it’s all part of the Nightlife difference.
You may have noticed that your Client Relationship Manager has become even more diligent when checking the vital health of your system when you call Nightlife for a general query and you may have even had a courtesy call from them to conduct a ‘Venue Health Check’.
What is a Venue Health Check? Put simply, by asking you a few quick questions while you’re in front of the HDMS™, we can review the main playing elements of your system to ensure it’s in tip top shape.
In 2008, our Client Services Team will be increasing outbound calls to our clients to examine music playlists, check schedulers and ensure that your system has all the latest music installed. The aim is to ensure your music matches the current needs of your venue. They will also be checking where your system is located and what rooms the music is playing in to, so we can maintain our database and get a clearer picture of your venue for future technical support.
With advertising being an important element to your venue’s success, the team will also review your billboards and provide any additional training required so you can maximise the potential of billboards as an advertising medium.
The Client Services Team look forward to giving you a courtesy call in 2008 to check the health of your system and to assess any additional training or music needs you may have.
You can request a Venue Health Check or additional over the phone training at anytime by calling us on 1800 773 468 - we will be more than happy to help you.
Jingle Bells all night long!
Nightlife’s commitment to our clients runs deep, that’s why we are available to you at any time of the day or night for emergency technical support.
The Christmas & New Year period is no exception.
Our office is open throughout the festive period (excluding Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Year’s Day) for all of your general music management needs and for any technical assistance.
Our dedicated team will also be available for emergency technical support 24 hours a day over Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years Day to assist with any technical issues that may arise and to ensure you have music playing when you need it!
All the staff here at Nightlife Music + Video would like to wish you a very...
Happy Christmas
MUSIC MUSE FOR YOUR VENUE
KAT DELUNA Whine Up (Sony BMG)
This debut single from 19 year old Dominican-American singer is not aimed at being any sort of critical favourite. Instead Kat Deluna and producer RedOne seem only interested in churning out killer hooks and infectious choruses for people who like their music fun. Featuring the recognisable Elephant Man, ‘Whine Up’ almost defines the club banger and is likely to be heard thumping from car speakers through this summer, as it has just done in America.
Find the single ‘Whine Up’ in Nightlife lists: WARM_UP, PARTY, JUKEBOX, CLUB_RNB
BLOC PARTY Flux (Shock)
Not content with being one of the greatest bands in the world, having one of the best live sets this year or having one of the best albums of 2007, Bloc Party released ‘Flux’, a bit of a lean in another direction for the band and a song that apparently they wrote for Kylie Minogue. The band, who has always been on the dance side of indie, completed the transition and released a dance floor thumper that, might be a little shock at first for fans but will manage to hold onto current followers and maybe drag a Klaxons fan or two along for the ride. Frontman Kele Okereke glides his pleading vocals over a funky percussion thump and spiralling 80’s disco guitars, leaning Bloc Party in a more groove-friendly direction, showing a rise in guitar-led energy.
Find the single ‘Flux’ in Nightlife lists: ALT_SOUNDS, MODERNROCK, JUKEBOX
SPICE GIRLS Headlines (EMI)
Looking back, it feels like at the time, the Spice Girls were bigger than The Beatles and Jesus combined. Their girl-power anthems and radio ballads sold a ludicrous amount of records, topped more than one chart worldwide and introduced us to Geri, Mel B, Mel C, Emma and Victoria. Well, they’re back! Proving they’re more than merely NW fodder, the five-piece re-unite to get back to what they do best. ‘Headlines’ is the obligatory new single on the chart-topping greatest hits compilation and is the slower of the two newbies, much like a ‘Viva Forever’ back in the day.
Find the single ‘Headlines’ in Nightlife lists: LITEnEASY, TOP_100, JUKEBOX, BALLADS
THE WOMBATS Lets Dance To Joy Division (Warner)
We’ve all seen them, those “alternative” sorts who stand stone-faced at the side of the dance floor until ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ bursts out of the speakers. Here, UK’s The Wombats pay tribute to the Joy Division fan with a cracking little single that should finally provide the trio with their breakthrough. The Wombats and Joy Division are musically miles apart and Joy Division will more than likely hate it reactively, but ‘Let’s Dance…’ is a powering number that’s possibly their best yet. There’s something clever in the lyrics each time you listen to it, in this case it’s the children’s choir breaking into “let love tear us apart.”
Find the single ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’ in Nightlife lists: ALT_SOUNDS, MODERNROCK
ARTISTS SPOTLIGHT
Faker
On their second album, Be The Twilight, Sydney purveyors of melancholic pop/rock Faker reference that fleeting time of day when day becomes night with a brand new batch of songs. Nightlife’s music programmer Ben Preece caught up with bassist Nic Munnings to chat about the new record, recorded in LA with producer Paul Fox.
NM: I think you can’t really help but be influenced by your surroundings. The studio where we made the record was a one-car garage that had been converted into a recording studio. It was more about a band at our level going making a record overseas and getting over there was quite expensive so we made it happen by essentially recording on the cheap. The studio was really small so we all spent a lot of time in the Californian summer, so I think we may have all been just a bit sunstruck.
BP: Did you indulge in any clichéd Hollywood shenanigans: star spotting or what-not?
NM: We did that sort of thing on the first weekend and tried to get a sense of outrageous LA, but we basically hooked up with a group of people close to where we were living and became absorbed into that little part of LA. Knowing local people just sort of made it feel normal. Unfortunately we don’t have any crazy celebrity stories or anything - can we make some up?
BP: What convinced you to use Paul Fox as your producer?
NM: What really attracted us to using him was his work on Muppets’ Treasure Island soundtrack and he played keys on Mötley Crüe’s Shout At The Devil [laughs]. We wanted to work with him because we instantly had a rapport with him from the very first conference call we had, oh yeah and and he tells really good stories. He really became one of the band members, in some ways. He did like to get on the keyboards and just get in there and noodle. He managed to vibe us up on things and it was just really exciting to work with someone like him.
First single ‘This Heart Attack’ currently out now through EMI and playing in ALT_SOUNDS, MODERNROCK AND HOTEL_MIX
Little Eve
Kate Miller-Heidke is Australia’s latest sensation in clever and off-kilter pop. 2007 has been an incredible year for the singer: she released her debut album, Little Eve – which has spawned two great singles in ‘Words’ and ‘Make It Last’ so far and no doubt you caught the killer live performance of the former at this year’s star-studded ARIA Awards. Thanks to Nightlife and our friends at Sony BMG, we have eight copies of Little Eve up for grabs.
Simply drop us a line at music@nightlife.com.au and tell us in which capital city Kate lives.
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