Posts by Russell Brown
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And of course, taking pictures of the sunset seems obligatory on this waterfront site. From the Friends & Family bar, looking over towards the Cactus Cat stage.
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The promoters left bubble wands around the site for people to play with. Nice touch.
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High Hoops in the Thunderdome was an afternoon treat. He makes great, funky nu disco tracks - and he sings over them live. Joyous and fun.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Backwards and Forwards, in reply to BlairMacca,
All in all a good day and a pretty good setup, except for the queues. WOuld have been interesting to see how Blur would ahve fitted in on the bill, if I think they were meant to play the lakeside stage, that would have been more than interesting to see the crush entering and exiting.
No, they were definitely down for the Aroha/Tamaki stages. If they'd played immediately before or after Snoop Dogg it would have made for quite an evening lineup on those stages.
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Also, I forgot to note in the post that a Member of Parliament is on the Thunderdome bill. 6.30pm, DJ Jacinda Ardern.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Backwards and Forwards, in reply to Mark Thomas,
And while I'm at it, what's the deal with tokens for food?
Was that only Chow Town? Didn't seem to work very well from what I've heard.
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And meanwhile ...
Labour has finally dumped two flagship tax policies of former leader Phil Goff that would have taken GST off fresh fruit and vegetables and set a tax-free band on income below $5000.
Leader David Cunliffe said the changes, signalled as likely by David Shearer when he was leader, would free up about $1.5 billion a year.
Cunliffe said his keynote speech in Auckland on Monday would outline better ways to help struggling families. He would not say if their cost would be the same.
Good move. They'd already said they'd do this, and doing it now gets them in on the news cycle.
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Except that a subsequent article revealed that he had, indeed, declared the trip; he just said he hadn’t because he got cornered and couldn’t be sure of his own recollection.
He sort-of did, via a brief email to a council staffer. Which he seems only to have sent after being pressed on the trip by John Drinnan.
But he still never bothered to file a proper declaration of interests and neither did Quax et al. Brown, oddly enough, did.
Moreover, the declaration was public bloody record and Granny ought to have found that before printing a big article about the supposed hypocrisy of Brewer.
That's the problem. The email existed and was eventually located. But it wasn't, at the time, on the public record because Brewer had ignored his obligation to put it on the public record. And then he whined about how much hassle making a declaration was.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Backwards and Forwards, in reply to bob daktari,
After a very enjoyable BDO I’m really looking forward to Laneway(s)… bit gutted (selfishly so) the Friends and Family has moved
Yeah, me too, but for the average punter it's a very good change.
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
I’m surprised the Herald has not commented.
That's really, really poor.
Meanwhile, I'm not sure about the intro today saying "Len Brown has hinted at seeking a third Super City mayoral term in 2016"
He was asked a direct question about it and replied. Here's the quote:
"There are two things that would determine my view in terms of the role that I have here. The first is that my family support me and the second is that so long as I maintain my love and my passion for our city and our people - and I do, I love this place and I love our people in the very best and the worst of times - then I would do the job."
"Hint" doesn't seem the right word at all. He quite clearly says that if he still has a passion for the job and the support of his family, he'd do it.
Orsman's just tying himself up in knots with all this.
