MTV “Can’t Get Enough’ Of NZ Music Month

MTV “Can’t Get Enough’ Of NZ Music Month

MTV NEW ZEALAND AND LOCAL MUSICIANS CELEBRATE THE KIWI MUSIC VIDEO.

AUCKLAND, Wednesday 29th April 2009 – MTV has always been about music videos, and some of those iconic clips have featured some of the greatest home grown talents New Zealand has to offer.

Be it Supergroove’s “Can’t Get Enough”, Scribe instructing NZ hip hop to “Stand Up” or even the eerie, dreamlike “Don’t Dream (It’s Over)” by Crowded House, New Zealand music videos have proved as essential as the music itself.

Throughout NZ Music Month in May, MTV New Zealand captures the candid thoughts and feelings from some of this country’s most revered and celebrated musicians (some world famous, some world famous in New Zealand) as they present their favourite NZ music videos.

Introducing the video, musicians such as Smashproof, Nesian Mystik, Greg Johnson, Elemeno P, Annabel Fay, Jimmy Christmas (ex D4, now Luger Boa) and MTV Kickstart 2008 winners Clap Clap Riot describe what drew them to the video – the lyrical content, the video’s director, maybe even they had a crush on the lead singer.

All the while numerous facts about the clip or personal musings from the artists will being “popping up” during it’s screening – perhaps Straitjacket Fits “She Speeds” was Die! Die! Die!’s favourite riff of all time and it was the first Andrew learnt on guitar.

MTV New Zealand celebrates NZ Music Month throughout the month of May, on Sky Digital 014

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