Posts by Sacha
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Haven't established whether one of Australia's biggest annual music festivals sells fried chicken sorry, but apparently they know talent when they see it.
New Zealand teenager Lorde has been handed the break of her life after promoters of Splendour in the Grass asked her to step in to replace Frank Ocean, who pulled out of the festival at the last minute.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I'll recover #sob
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after so many moons without Godwin, we get two in little more than a week. bless
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
you free-to-air spoiler, you
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
That it's already being used to mass-market fast food seems entirely appropriate
An unrelated mass-channel Tube site slapped a fried chicken advert in front of her clip. Oooh.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to "chris",
don't be a dick.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to "chris",
tripping over themselves to laud Lorde
Dude, she's the first musician to ever have 4 songs charting in our NZ top 20 at the same time. Ever.
And first solo woman since 1997 in the top 10 of the US Billboard Alt chart.
Recognising her talent and success is hardly a unique sport. It's fine to celebrate a creative young Kiwi. It's OK to sell music to Americans as part of getting it to more people's ears. She has probably influenced more people already than you or I ever will. That deserves respect, not sneering.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Ta for that link. Eugenie Sage's comment #6 is interesting:
Govt does not need to appoint commissioners. Its changes to the Local Govt Act in 2012 give the Crown Manager substantial powers, more than those of a CEO. The Crown Manager can direct the Council including councillors which a CEO cannot. Would not be surprised to see Crown Manager given role of managing resource consents. Gov will have achieved a similar level of control of the Council as it has with commissioners at ECan without the accompanying public criticism.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
How does that make sense?
His job is not to make consent decisions, but to strengthen the team who does. Different skillset.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Summer Time, in reply to Simon Grigg,
the licenses just ran out
Is that common? Guess I'd always assumed they were long-term contracts.