Iggy has his Kiwi band – ‘The Passenger’ recording session streamed live today from 1pm (NZST)
The auditions have closed and Iggy Pop has his brand new band. More than 200 New Zealand musicians auditioned for the chance to lay down Iggy’s renowned solo track ‘The Passenger’ online and under the direction of the Godfather of Punk.
The recording session is being streamed live at www.facebook.com/Orconfrom around 1pm (NZST) today and the finished track is being turned into a television spot, directed by Darryl Ward @ Curious Film. It will be available for viewingfrom November 17.
It’s all part of a promotion created by Special, Auckland for telecommunications company Orcon for its next generation broadband.
Now the band has been chosen it assembles today (Friday October30) to hook up with Iggy in Miami live via Orcon Broadband. They’respending the day under the maestro’s expert guidance laying down abrand new version of ‘The Passenger’.
Iggy’s new band comprises four musicians from Wellington, two fromAuckland and one each from Warkworth in Rodney District and Paraparaumu.
The group comprises:
Tia Beaufort (Pukerua Bay, Wellington) & Stephanie Engelbrecht (Evans Bay, Wellington), drums
Charley Davenport (Paraparaumu), cello
Ben Jurisich (Warkworth) & Sam Logan (Karori, Wellington), guitars
Takumi Motokawa (Brooklyn, Wellington), xylophone
Daniel Tate (Onehunga, Auckland), bass
Miho Wada (Remuera, Auckland), flute
Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett says he’s amazed at the quality and number ofmusicians who jumped at the chance to audition for the band: “Iggyobviously has huge pulling power in the global music community. We wereexpecting around 50 New Zealand musos to audition but in the end we hadmore than 200. It was a pretty tough job screening them down to eightbut with Iggy’s help I think we have unearthed some awesome talent.”
Mr Bartlett says it looks like it is going to be a pretty incrediblere-make of ‘The Passenger’ and not just a re-hash of the original: “Weare really excited about what is going to come out of this.”
Today the New Zealand band members connect to Iggy’s Miami studio viathe Internet with everyone in the band laying down their tracks andIggy singing the vocals.
The studio is going to capture all the audio and visual feeds andcreate a unique musical and video rendition of ‘The Passenger’. Themusic and footage is then going to be used to create commercials and afull music video.
“The internet is enabling Kiwis to do incredible things each day and this helps us prove that,” Mr Bartlett says.
• The Iggy Pop ‘Together Incredible’ auditions were viewed onlinemore than 65,000 times on Facebook and the site attracted close to4,000 fans.
See also: Play live with Iggy Pop and Iggy ready to record ‘The Passenger’
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It’s 1:18pm, and the Ustream player still says ‘off air’. What a shambles. And only 200 entrants? I don’t think that is anything you should be issuing press releases about.
half an hour late, sound was shit, boring as, Pop looked lukewarm. FAIL.
200 entrants was bad, but even worse there were only like 200 viewers of the whole darn thing…
Well done Orcon. Really shows us how good your service is.
That was pathetic.
Iggy was awesome. Such a great idea.
Too many viewers signed on. It temporarily crashed the system
All broadband is delayed, how can this even work?
this makes special look a little less special. what a screw up.
“I’m Special”…(Steady Eddy voice)