Artist Representative Election - Information on Candidates
Information on candidates in the PPCA Artist Representative Election
For the two years commencing January 2012
Paul Christie
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Paul is a musician, currently performing with MONDO ROCK, ROCKHOUSE and The Big Daddys. He also devised The Party Boys attaining record concert ticket sales, a #1 single, platinum and gold albums for EMI and SONY. He is proud to have employed many Australians during this era.
He has published two ‘how to’ books for music industry starters utilising these texts as curriculum for his tenure as lecturer at the Australian Institute of Music. This dovetailed into consulting the NSW Ministry for The Arts on contemporary music education. Several highly successful seminars were conducted for the Ministry over a 3 year period.
Paul has experience and understanding of Information Technologies and has lived and worked in New York 95/96/97, in film, and Los Angeles in music. He is a passionate music lover and staunch supporter of musicians and their rights to broad based incomes. He is a member of APRA, PPCA and a retired member of the AMMF.
Paul previously served on the PPCA Board from 2007 to 2008.
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Steve Kilbey
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Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a five piece "cabaret band" called 'Saga' in Canberra, Australia. He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grande, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. Soon after, he formed The Church along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper. After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when "Under the Milky Way" (from their 1988 album Starfish) became a hit. In 2010 Steve and The Church were inducted into the Aria Hall of Fame. In 2011 Steve was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2011 they performed to a sold out room at the Sydney Opera House to commemorate their 30 years, with a 70 piece orchestra in tow. The Church have successfully toured the world for the past 32 years. |
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Lindy Morrison
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I would like your vote to continue to represent your interests on PPCA Board.
I have represented Australian recording artists on the PPCA Board since 1993. I lobbied the Board successfully for recording artists’ and achieved an increase in the available direct recording artist distribution amount to 50% of licence fees collected by PPCA for the performance of Australian recordings (which includes 2.5% to the PPCA Trust). When I first joined the Board no distributions were made to recording artists. It took a number of years of lobbying to get that figure to 50%.
I extended the reach of PPCA Trust to ensure that musicians receiving grants did not have to be members of the Musicians Union or the MEAA as was the criteria for grants when I first joined the Board. I have also supported the allocation of grants to organizations such as the Song Room, because of the valuable work they perform in disadvantaged schools and because they employ musicians to carry out this work. I lobbied hard in the late nineties to see the Australian local content code established for commercial radio.
On a strictly practical note, I guarantee artists will be able to register electronically this year to enable us to update our tracks with PPCA or register for the first time online. I am always available to take your calls or queries about PPCA. From my time on the Board, I have developed a wide knowledge of PPCA history, organizational structures, policies and the Board ‘s obligations.
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I am dedicated to seeing recording artists are paid commensurate with the work, time and skill it takes to record. I am not fearful, and argue the copyright case to the media in all forms - especially radio, despite radio’s antipathy to Australian recording artists’ struggle to eliminate the unfair cap on fees.
I was the drummer in Zero in Brisbane in the late seventies, The Go Betweens for ten years throughout the eighties followed by three years in Cleopatra Wong in the early nineties. Like most musicians I now have a number of jobs. I have worked in the last two decades in community music directing the music in community shows, facilitating workshops with many diverse community groups. I teach Copyright and Contracts in the TAFE sector, having completed a Masters in Legal Studies at UNSW in 2009. I also work as a part time social worker with the music industry benevolent fund called Support Act Ltd.
Lindy Morrison 0409224720
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