Radio with Pictures - My Kind of Town

Television (Excerpts) – 1981

"Once a band has made it here in Godzone, the big question is: where to now?". As presenter Karyn Hay put it back in 1981, there was only one answer — Australia. RWP reporter Simon Morris headed to Sydney to meet Kiwi musos who'd made it (Marc Hunter, on hiatus from Dragon), and those trying (Sharon O’Neill, Dave McArtney, Mi-Sex's Kevin Stanton, Barry Saunders from The Tigers). Hunter muses on Sydney brashness versus NZ introspection, O’Neill shyly promotes 'Maybe' to Molly Meldrum, and expat music producer Peter Dawkins explains what makes a hit.

When Dragon started in New Zealand they were fairly amateur I guess. When we shifted to Australia, everything was faster, everything was nastier, had more of an edge to it. It just kind of became obvious we had to change the music we were playing to succeed or to survive.
– Marc Hunter, sometime vocalist for Dragon