Cleaning up at the 2008 New Zealand Music Awards, OPSHOP won a phenomenal four awards, Single of the Year and Highest Selling Single for One Day, Highest Selling Album for Second Hand Planet and also the award for the Most Played Song on New Zealand Radio for Maybe. This last award recognising a record achievement for the airplay of any song ever on New Zealand Radio with over 10,000 spins in one year.
If that wasn’t enough, OPSHOP also won the highest accolade in New Zealand Music a little bit earlier in the year by picking up the coveted APRA Silver Scroll Award for Song of The Year for One Day and they also walked home with the Silver Scroll for the years Most Performed Work, once again for One Day.
Climate change is happening faster than anyone expected. In December this year world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to Sign On to a global agreement for action. For New Zealand to do its bit to help avoid catastrophic impacts, Prime Minister John Key needs to go to Copenhagen and Sign On to reduce New Zealand’s emissions by 40 per cent by 2020.
I have entered some of my photographs into the CREATIVE FOR A CAUSE photography competition run by Canon.
CANON WILL DONATE NZ$25,000 to the winners nominated recipient (ie; CHARITY OF MY CHOICE.)
VOTES CLOSE Friday 10 JULY!
Time is running out, so PLEASE take a couple of minutes to help me, help out any of my chosen and highly deserving charities (Greenpeace NZ, Amnesty International NZ, and Womens Refuge) by going to http://tinyurl.com/ldl7rd - to view all my enteries, type "Sarah Everard" into the "filter by keyword" section under Image search on the left hand side of your screen.
Caught your show in Greymouth a while ago - you're amazing live!
Anywho . . . I’m Katie Thompson a singer/songwriter from NZ! I need your vote for Rabo Idol - if I win I will receive $10,000 towards my next album, please check out www.raboplus.co.nz Cheers Katie xx
Nice to have Opshop aboard, the more kiwi bands I have the happier I am..one day hope to have the full set :) Cheers from windy wet cold Porirua, happiest place on Earth :) Richie
