August 10, 2024 • 5 mins
Eden Park's operators are hoping to get approval to host more concerts at the stadium.
The stadium is currently permitted to host six concerts a year - which raised eyebrows as big acts like Taylor Swift, Oliva Rodrigo and Billie Eilish opted to skip New Zealand on their international tours.
Entertainment commentator Chris Schulz says more residents in the surrounding suburbs have voiced support for Eden Park hosting more concerts.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Joining me now to talk entertainment is Chris Schatz. Good morning,
Good morning. We were just talking about the All Blacks.
Not a great night for them last night.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe we shouldn't be talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It, ah, And that sort of led us on to
Eden Park, And of course Eaton Park is not just
the home of rugby and various other things. It's also
more and more becoming the home of some pretty big,
amazing gigs and they'd like to do a few more.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
They would, Yeah, they're only allowed six a year at
the moment, and that's really hindering the number of artists
who are touring here. We all know we missed out
on Taylor Swift last year, but we also missed out
on tours by Paul McCartney, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.
So there's a big debate going on at the moment
about the future of stadiums in Auckland. There's a decision
to be made whether we build a brand new stadium
(00:58):
down behind Spark Arena that can host fifty thousand people,
that can bring those big artists here or do we
rejig Eaton Park put a roof over it? Redo some
of the stands residents. This week though, they got a
letter in the mail asking them to support doubling the
number of concerts they're allowed to have there six at
the moment. Famously, six sixty broke that mole back in
(01:21):
twenty twenty. I believe they played the first show at
eden Park and since then they've been allowed to hold six.
Some of the residents aren't happy about that. That's why
there's a bit of conflict there. But now people can
have their say. And this is important not just for
Auckland but the whole country because I don't want to
travel to Australia. They have to go and see artists
all the time. I'd like them to come here. And
when we've got a stadium that can just host these
(01:42):
shows and artists go, oh we go to New Zealand,
we do Eden Park. That's the thing that's important. So
they do need to host more shows, just purely for myself.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it's interesting because a lot of people who live
in the area who do get to have a say,
are really behind it. They love it. They say bring
it on. It can often be a slightly small it's
not everybody who lives there who's affected by it.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
The vocal share we just say Bookworm, the Kiwi film,
which I really loved because I grew up on these
kind of live action family adventure.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Films, and I've really enjoyed this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Doing well, doing really well. Yeah, the reviews are outstanding.
I checked Rotten Tomatoes just before I came on in
ninety four percent. Reviewers a kind of comparing this to
Hunt for the World of People, one of our biggest
box office success stories. I haven't seen this yet, but
you know what, you know this, it's really hard to
find a movie that you can take the whole family to.
I've got a fourteen year old and a ten year old.
(02:36):
But this is from Aunt Timpson, who has a career
in pushing boundaries. He's behind the forty eight Hour Film Festival.
We hosted the incredibly strange section of the International Film
Festival that's on now for like thirty years. He's made
some pretty dark and twisted films. Go and look up
The Greasy Strangler if you want to see an example
of what he's done. But this is completely out of
(02:58):
left field. He's made a family friendly movie, Oh gorgeous
Elijah Woods in it, and they're on the hunt of
the Cannibury panther. So yeah, I need to go and see.
But based on the reviews, yeah, I'm definitely going.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's good. Good to hear. We actually had a larger
Wood on the show last week and tell me what,
talk about the nicest guy ever. I thought we were
best mates by the end of that. Yeah, I was.
I was talk to you soon. I was like, no,
we won't Franchiska. You don't know him, you've only just
met him, but just so incredibly down to earth and
open and grounded, and.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Did you want to go on a hike on the
cannobary planes with them?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We did talk about his camping ability and it does
sound like he's he's he's a follower, not a leader,
so maybe not Industry. The HBO TV show is back.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to get this on everyone's radar.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
A few I have watched this. This This is the
the banking Yes am I on the right thing, the
British banking drama.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Financial industry, and it's made by two former money bros
who catched in their their careers and when I made TV.
This is their first TV show. The first two seasons
were kind of under the radar. It is very much
a cult show. But if you are missing Succession or
if you were disappointed by the Bears third season this year,
which many were industries third season is getting absolute rave reviews.
(04:16):
I've seen the first few episodes and it's kind of
like watching uncut gems at Adam Sandler movie, where you're
just on the edge of your seat the whole time.
It is intense viewing because it's set on the stock
market trading floor of a foreign exchange company in the UK.
One of the stockbrokers has a baseball bat on his desk.
It's that kind of show. It's just incredibly tense.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And no one behaves the way you want them to,
you know how you like a character, you want them
to do the right thing and behave and do the
right None of them do they have their own moral compasses,
don't they?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They have their own It's like Succession. There are awful people,
but you're still kind of behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a simple way of putting it. So where do
we watch that? Here?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
In New Zenand that's on Neon from Sary Night. Third
season it's the best show of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Why didn't you enjoyed The Bear season three so much?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Nothing happened the season. It was just very slow. It
wasn't the show that it used to be, And there
is a reason for that. They split it into two seasons.
It was only supposed to be a three season show,
and it became a hit, and so Christopher Story had
to make four seasons of it. And you can sort
of tell there's not a lot happening in at thirty episode.
It's gonna happen in the fourth season for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, it's interesting you say that because I got stalled
at about episode three, and it was I just wasn't
quite in the mood for it yet. To season two.
There were episodes in there, like cousin Ritchie's episode, which
is some of my favorite It's probably one of my
favorite episodes of television ever, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, so do I need to keep going? Okay, that
sort of happens at the end of the season. But industry,
if you are disappointed.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, I'm in. I'm in industry. Thank you so much, Chris.
Really good to catch up with you.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin. Listen
live to news talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Joining me now to talk entertainment is Chris Schatz. Good morning,
Good morning. We were just talking about the All Blacks.
Not a great night for them last night.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe we shouldn't be talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
It, ah, And that sort of led us on to
Eden Park, And of course Eaton Park is not just
the home of rugby and various other things. It's also
more and more becoming the home of some pretty big,
amazing gigs and they'd like to do a few more.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
They would, Yeah, they're only allowed six a year at
the moment, and that's really hindering the number of artists
who are touring here. We all know we missed out
on Taylor Swift last year, but we also missed out
on tours by Paul McCartney, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish.
So there's a big debate going on at the moment
about the future of stadiums in Auckland. There's a decision
to be made whether we build a brand new stadium
(00:58):
down behind Spark Arena that can host fifty thousand people,
that can bring those big artists here or do we
rejig Eaton Park put a roof over it? Redo some
of the stands residents. This week though, they got a
letter in the mail asking them to support doubling the
number of concerts they're allowed to have there six at
the moment. Famously, six sixty broke that mole back in
(01:21):
twenty twenty. I believe they played the first show at
eden Park and since then they've been allowed to hold six.
Some of the residents aren't happy about that. That's why
there's a bit of conflict there. But now people can
have their say. And this is important not just for
Auckland but the whole country because I don't want to
travel to Australia. They have to go and see artists
all the time. I'd like them to come here. And
when we've got a stadium that can just host these
(01:42):
shows and artists go, oh we go to New Zealand,
we do Eden Park. That's the thing that's important. So
they do need to host more shows, just purely for myself.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, it's interesting because a lot of people who live
in the area who do get to have a say,
are really behind it. They love it. They say bring
it on. It can often be a slightly small it's
not everybody who lives there who's affected by it.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
The vocal share we just say Bookworm, the Kiwi film,
which I really loved because I grew up on these
kind of live action family adventure.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Films, and I've really enjoyed this.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Doing well, doing really well. Yeah, the reviews are outstanding.
I checked Rotten Tomatoes just before I came on in
ninety four percent. Reviewers a kind of comparing this to
Hunt for the World of People, one of our biggest
box office success stories. I haven't seen this yet, but
you know what, you know this, it's really hard to
find a movie that you can take the whole family to.
I've got a fourteen year old and a ten year old.
(02:36):
But this is from Aunt Timpson, who has a career
in pushing boundaries. He's behind the forty eight Hour Film Festival.
We hosted the incredibly strange section of the International Film
Festival that's on now for like thirty years. He's made
some pretty dark and twisted films. Go and look up
The Greasy Strangler if you want to see an example
of what he's done. But this is completely out of
(02:58):
left field. He's made a family friendly movie, Oh gorgeous
Elijah Woods in it, and they're on the hunt of
the Cannibury panther. So yeah, I need to go and see.
But based on the reviews, yeah, I'm definitely going.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's good. Good to hear. We actually had a larger
Wood on the show last week and tell me what,
talk about the nicest guy ever. I thought we were
best mates by the end of that. Yeah, I was.
I was talk to you soon. I was like, no,
we won't Franchiska. You don't know him, you've only just
met him, but just so incredibly down to earth and
open and grounded, and.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Did you want to go on a hike on the
cannobary planes with them?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We did talk about his camping ability and it does
sound like he's he's he's a follower, not a leader,
so maybe not Industry. The HBO TV show is back.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to get this on everyone's radar.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
A few I have watched this. This This is the
the banking Yes am I on the right thing, the
British banking drama.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Financial industry, and it's made by two former money bros
who catched in their their careers and when I made TV.
This is their first TV show. The first two seasons
were kind of under the radar. It is very much
a cult show. But if you are missing Succession or
if you were disappointed by the Bears third season this year,
which many were industries third season is getting absolute rave reviews.
(04:16):
I've seen the first few episodes and it's kind of
like watching uncut gems at Adam Sandler movie, where you're
just on the edge of your seat the whole time.
It is intense viewing because it's set on the stock
market trading floor of a foreign exchange company in the UK.
One of the stockbrokers has a baseball bat on his desk.
It's that kind of show. It's just incredibly tense.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And no one behaves the way you want them to,
you know how you like a character, you want them
to do the right thing and behave and do the
right None of them do they have their own moral compasses,
don't they?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They have their own It's like Succession. There are awful people,
but you're still kind of behind them.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It's a simple way of putting it. So where do
we watch that? Here?
Speaker 3 (04:58):
In New Zenand that's on Neon from Sary Night. Third
season it's the best show of the year.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Why didn't you enjoyed The Bear season three so much?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Nothing happened the season. It was just very slow. It
wasn't the show that it used to be, And there
is a reason for that. They split it into two seasons.
It was only supposed to be a three season show,
and it became a hit, and so Christopher Story had
to make four seasons of it. And you can sort
of tell there's not a lot happening in at thirty episode.
It's gonna happen in the fourth season for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Okay, it's interesting you say that because I got stalled
at about episode three, and it was I just wasn't
quite in the mood for it yet. To season two.
There were episodes in there, like cousin Ritchie's episode, which
is some of my favorite It's probably one of my
favorite episodes of television ever, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Yeah, so do I need to keep going? Okay, that
sort of happens at the end of the season. But industry,
if you are disappointed.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay, I'm in. I'm in industry. Thank you so much, Chris.
Really good to catch up with you.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin. Listen
live to news talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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