All Rhodes lead to great entertainment

I met Monique Rhodes at an art awards function. Even from across the room I could see she had star power. I had no idea she was a musician. We chatted briefly about art and marketing and I was interested in the business model her friend's gallery was using to bring art to the people and money to artists.

Monique contacted me to ask if I'd be interested in helping her with ideas to promote her work. After a visit to her site I was sold. I love her music and energy.

She has been enrapturing fans at small venues here in New Zealand, building a loyal base. She lives most of the year in France. She toured Europe opening the legendary Chuck Berry's shows (and yes, appernetly he does like to be paid in cash).

Monique is playing at Auckland's Honey Lounge in O'Connell Street on Thursday. Gig starts at 8.30. There's no cover charge. It will be a great night. The group Pearl follow. If you see me there don't hesitate to say hello.

What better way to kick of the long Easter weekend? Good Friday - Better Thursday.

Check out Monique's music on her web site and become a friend on her
"MySpace page (she counts Sarah McLaughlan, Sheryl Crow and our very own Annie Crummer amongst her friends and fans so you'll be in good company).

Order a copy of her debut Album Awakenings
from her website or on theAmplifier
New Zealand music site.

Comments

Ze Frank thinks so you don't have to

Ze Frank appeared on my radar when I saw his presentation among the excellent TED Talks videos . This morning I was reading Russell Davies planning blog in which he referred to a clip by Ze Frank - Where do ideas come from. Here's the transcript: "...Hungry Hippo licks Aunt JEmima [sic] writes, "Are you ever gonna break into song again? Are you running out of ideas?" Hungry Hippo licks Aunt JEmima, that's a good question. I run out of ideas every day! Each day I live in mortal fear that I've used up the last idea that'll ever come to me. If you don't wanna run out of ideas the best thing to do is not to execute them. You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do 'em right. Then they stay around in your head like brain crack. No matter how bad things get, at least you have those good ideas that you'll get to later. Some people get addicted to that brain crack. And the longer they wait, the more they convince themse...

Johnny Bunko competiton

The Great Johnny Bunko Challenge from DHP on Vimeo . There's a young chap in Indiana, one Alec Quig , who has written to me about creating a career based on a polymathic degree, from which he has recently graduated. He's an interesting young man and his concerns about going forward in life are the anxieties we all face at crossroads in our lives when we are forced to make choices. Dan Pink's latest book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need might help: "From a New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Washington Post bestselling author comes a first-of-its- kind career guide for a new generation of job seekers.There's never been a career guide like it.the fully illustrated story (ingeniously told in Manga form) of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to parachute company Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early days as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to find a new job. St...

Why billboards must go.

The problem with billboards and advertising in public places is they are an invasion of privacy. Unlike magazine, tv, radio (etc) advertising you cannot choose to turn it off or avoid it. Nor does it offer anything in return. It is a medium that offers no benefit or advantage to the person it is inflicted on. At least television ads subsidise the programming. Without doubt some billboards are entertaining - I thought the anti GE poster for short lived MADGE activist group was particularly good. But most are rubbish. Literally. Badly executed. Nothing important to say. The debate has led to a great deal of hysteria - mostly from people with a vested interest in perpetuating the deployment of hoardings. Perhaps the idea that the issue at stake is 'property rights' is the creepiest. If you own a building you have every right to plaster anything you like on its external surfaces. Is that an antisocial point of view? I think so. In the UK you could have an ASBO slapped on you for si...

ThoughtSpurs

Search This Blog