On the Red Carpet with Vodafone

For Immediate release
16 October 2007

On the Red Carpet with Vodafone

Vodafone gets the party started at this year’s Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards at the Vodafone Music Lounge

The 2007 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards kick off in style with the Vodafone Music Lounge, in Aotea Square from 4pm. The Vodafone Music Lounge is a one stop interactive showcase of the best DJs, MCs, Visual Artists and Bluetooth technology. There’s even a beauty lounge, to ensure you are fully glammed up for the occasion.

You don’t have to be a VNZMA ticket holder to get in on the action and entry is free; just make sure you get down there early to avoid disappointment. With pole position alongside the red carpet, it’s the perfect vantage point to scope out the artists getting snapped, while you kick back and enjoy.

Don’t forget, the Vodafone Music Lounge is also where we’ll be awarding the Vodafone People’s Choice award mega prize. If you voted for any one of these finalists you are in with a chance to win.

What’s on at the Vodafone Music Lounge:

• Award of the Vodafone People’s Choice Award Mega Prize - 5pm sharp

• Bluetooth Zone – whatever network you’re on, get FREE ring tones from Vodafone People’s Choice Award finalists Brooke Fraser, Opshop, Shapeshifter, The Black Seeds and Evermore, direct to your mobile via Bluetooth technology

• Visual Artists – Otis Frizzell and Dan Tippett creating a graf wall which will be donated to the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre to be auctioned in November

• MC Slave and Turnaround DJs Cian, Submariner & Manuel Bundy plus Mantis (Aspects, UK) and special guest MCs

• Beauty Lounge – Get your shimmy on with hair by L’Oreal Professionnel and lip touch ups by MAC

• Refreshments from Gravity Coffee

• Special offer on Nokia Handsets

• Surprise guest appearances

• Tickets available to win for the VNZMA main awards show

Vodafone and C4 announce winner of ‘Voice of the People’

After going up against a whole heap of hopefuls, Vodafone and C4 can confirm their “Voice of the People”. Steph McQuaid takes the prize after dazzling viewers with her charms.

Steph will present the Vodafone’s People’s Choice Award with C4’s Jermaine Leef at the VNZMAs this Thursday night. "I think it's great for a member of the public to be able to present this award at New Zealand’s biggest music night, it makes it truly the People’s Choice Award!” says Jermaine.

C4 viewers were able to put forward their case to be the lucky winner by visiting c4tv.co.nz and expressing what NZ music means to them.

The 16 year old Kiwi from Auckland’s North Shore had this to say in her winning entry:

“We are a talented bunch of Kiwis and our music industry is becoming a huge part of us and gaining the recognition we deserve. We are now no longer only known for our nerdville “Lord of the Rings” and whooping ass at rugby, but our talent also lies in the music industry……When I heard about the competition I though it was an awesome idea to be able to reward these guys for their brilliance, and who better to present them with their award than me. I can talk the talk and walk the walk. I guess you could say I have the whole package!”

The C4 producers clearly thought so, and along with three other finalists, Steph featured on Vodafone Select Live where they all competed to get the public vote.

There was an astounding response from viewers with almost 4,000 people voting via TXT, nearly 50% of which were for Steph. Courtesy of Vodafone, she now gets to spend a night in the limelight, mingling with the stars, getting the VIP treatment, and of course presenting the most prestigious award of the night: The Vodafone People’s Choice Award!

On Thursday, Steph’s Rock n’ Roll experience becomes a reality when she checks into her luxury suite at Auckland’s Langham Hotel, before being taken to local designer Lucy Boshier’s boutique to be dressed for the evening. She can then look forward to a MAC make-over, limo to and from the event, her very own private dressing room at the awards, VIP passes to the main show and after-party and $1000 of Vodafone air-time.

You can catch Steph in action at the awards by tuning into C4 from 8.30pm on Thursday.

Gushes Steph, “It’s amazing! I am thrilled. Thank you to everyone who voted for me.”

Notes to Editors:

• Vodafone is 100% dedicated to music and is New Zealand’s number one seller of digital music and the biggest overall seller of singles in this market. Vodafone has exclusive content from some of NZ’s best artists including Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shapeshifter and Hollie Smith and is committed to getting more music, to more New Zealanders, more often. Now you can rely on New Zealand’s number one communications company to deliver your music wherever you are, whenever.

• The Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards (VNZMA) will be held on Thursday, 18th October in Auckland.

• Live delayed coverage will screen on C4 from 8.30pm that night. Vodafone Select Live will be LIVE catching all of the preparations from 4.00pm.

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