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Saz Luhrmann

@SarinMods

Work in production, live in pop culture. Trying to keep the compass True North. Opinions belong to me, not any of the people insane enough to employ me.

 Aotearoa New Zealand / Canadia
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Joined April 2009
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This is seriously making me consider whether I want to be here anymore. It feels like complicity. “In an unprompted Tuesday email, Musk wrote: "So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?"” npr.org/2023/05/02/117342231…
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@95bFM's most 🐐ed General Manager Caitlin McIlhagga is taking a career plot twist. b is looking for a new GM. Holy smokes that could be you! thebigidea.nz/jobs/general-m…
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Just watched Good Grief on the plane and m8, it is a NZ series that absolutely nails it. Shot @TVNZ and @FlyAirNZ! (but please bring back more NZ music on your planes - Harry Styles really doesn’t need to be the featured album and Taylor Swift doesn’t need the bathroom spins 🙃)
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there are SO MANY MORE contributing factors that @radionz is missing: fuel prices, shipping crisis, generally tight labour market, post-shutdown infrastructure shortages, higher food prices, increased demand for EVERYTHING during the busiest season we've seen in a decade... 1/
Charlotte Ryan (@CharlotteRyanNZ) profile pictureCharlotte Ryan@CharlotteRyanNZ1 Apr 2023
What do you think is a reasonable price to see an international musician / band ? rnz.co.nz/news/business/4871…
'It shouldn't be a luxury' - Soaring ticket prices leave gig goers cold

'It shouldn't be a luxury' - Soaring ticket prices leave gig goers cold

An industry representative and gig goers both say event ticket prices are shooting up.

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On top of that, your favourite artists - and all of their people, and the rest of the industry - didn't work for two years. Nobody is volunteering for a pay cut. Some of these companies and some of these acts pay my invoices. I love my work and I'm not a disinterested party. 4/
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And finally - this is also why public funding of the arts is so important, because we can't let the market be the only determinant of what art makes it onto a stage. 5/
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Just coming on here to say the obvious: Trans Women Are Women. Trans & non-binary whānau are loved, valued and welcomed down here and if anyone is ever making you feel unsafe please let us know. Jacob would just like a chat. Outside.
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Saz Luhrmann retweeted
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk18 Dec 2022
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
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17,502,391 votes • Final results
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Mōrena to everyone except exploitative fraudsters who steal public money and don’t pay people for their services stuff.co.nz/entertainment/12…
Promoter who received $115k in public funds lied about paying artists

Promoter who received $115k in public funds lied about paying artists

Keegan Fepulea’i says his "cash flow became unmanageable". Performers still waiting for payment say they just want accountability.

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Reading your story and realising this was going on (again) back in 2019 was WILD. That’s why this story had to happen. Get it all out in the open.
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This is the tiniest smattering of the fraud and theft that Keegan Fepulea'i @JusayinAKL has been getting away with in the Auckland live music industry for 10+ years now but at least some of his shit is getting publicly aired for a change. thespinoff.co.nz/business/23… @TheSpinoffTV
The ghost of Vā festival: $115,000 in public funding and artists still haven’t been paid | The...

The ghost of Vā festival: $115,000 in public funding and artists still haven’t been paid | The...

Four months after the event, artists are still hassling the organiser for payment. It's not the first time.

thespinoff.co.nz
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I would love - LOVE - to make sure that he isn't able to duck away, resurface in a couple years, and do it all again (as is his habit). So send this far and wide, and if you have your own dealings with the guy to contribute, there are people working on things. DM me.
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THREAD. @JusayinAKL aka Keegan is a full-on scam artist and somehow manages to rehash the same shit every few years with new groups of people. Most recently took/stole $115k from Auckland Unlimited on behalf of @MBIEgovtnz to put in a gig and then not pay anyone. Fucking unreal.
Jeremiah SB (@Jerry_me_G) profile pictureJeremiah SB@Jerry_me_G18 Sep 2022
@JusayinAKL / Keegan Fepuleai scams 2022. 1/ A group of musicians and crew have come forward because Keegan hasn’t paid (again) The groups debts total over $10k still owed. Keegan has either ghosted them or made up all form of excuses and reasons for not paying promptly.
Image from Jeremiah SB (@Jerry_me_G)
Image from Jeremiah SB (@Jerry_me_G)
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In hilarious news, he’s non-apologised (with 2 versions… spot the difference 😂) and once everyone is paid he’s promised to dissolve the company… that he already removed from the Companies Register in August? 🧐
Image from Saz Luhrmann (@SarinMods)
Image from Saz Luhrmann (@SarinMods)
Image from Saz Luhrmann (@SarinMods)
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ALSO worth noting that Auckland Unlimited (formerly ATEED and on behalf of @MBIEgovtnz) have so far not been willing to do anything more than continue to try to contact him about the lies he told them, which has… obviously been unsuccessful
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in case you wanted to know, Shaquille O'Neal is now a dubstep dj.
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So it really took decades to get any public holiday to mark a Māori occasion but literally days to say we all get stat pay because the Queen died? Let’s stop pretending Aotearoa New Zealand is a bicultural nation founded on equal partnership, eh.
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