Posts by Stuart Coats

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  • Field Theory: True Colours,

    You're so right about the shoes Haydn. You'd think Adidas wouldn't let the netballers step out in anything other than their own product.
    And I like the white too. If you can't have black go for its diametric opposite!

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Playing Nice?,

    It goes beyond the transgressions we accept and expect from student journalists, and does no good to any aspirations Oliver might have to a journalistic career of his own.

    Surely all recent evidence shows that the ability to issue superflous legal documents, overreact to someone writing a blog and to try and cover one's tracks despite evidence to the contrary will stand Mr Oliver in great stead for any future journalistic career in New Zealand.

    The Herald, for one, beckons.....

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

  • Field Theory: A time of imagination,

    I'd take Dhoni for cricket because he wins you games with the bat and seems to get the best out of teams that he captains. And I anticipate that he will be playing at a high level for the next 5 years minimum.

    American Football I'd take Adrian Peterson because you need a good running back and he is still very young.

    NBA, while you'd probably take LeBron if I didn't have first pick I'd take Chris Paul because he is the best point guard around and he's also very young and is only going to get better.

    Football I'd take Kaka because not only is he a great player but every time he did something good the fans would get to shout "he's the shit!"

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: It would be polite to ask,

    Or is Eric really the toast of the town in Constantinople? (Now Istanbul)

    Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.

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  • Hard News: Lucinda Williams made me cry,

    It's okay to sell front-and-centre seats for Simon & Garfunkel for top dollar. I doubt there'll be a clash of expectations at that show ;-)

    Really? Because I totally expect that there will be some awkward frugging if they play Cecilia or even some wild interperative dance to Bridge Over Troubled Water

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  • Hard News: Lucinda Williams made me cry,

    This would mean no more gigs there, except maybe all-seater ones......

    Not necessarily. You can get auditorium seating that is relatively easy to clear. It's a question of design.

    Ah, see that was my little joke.
    But you are right, you can get auditorium seating that is easy to clear, and ATC would want something like that as it makes the auditorium a more flexible performing space.

    Mind you, you wouldn't want the seats to be too easy to move

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

  • Field Theory: He's the voice,

    Link well worth a read.

    Oh yes indeedy.
    Worst-commentator-ever. I haven't watched a Champions League game for years just to avoid him. And this is from someone who will put up with Mexted, Ian Healy and Daryl Halligan to continue to watch sports I love

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  • Hard News: Lucinda Williams made me cry,

    I wish Those In Charge would pull their heads out of their asses and refurbish it. What's the latest plan, anyway? Closed forever, soon to be demolished?

    By sheer chance: I was walking past the St James yesterday and saw a notice pinned up on the door. It said that the theatre was closed until major structural strengthening work (among other things) had been done. That notice was dated 2007, so I guess that isn't happening any time soon :(
    Personally I'd like to see the St James turned into the home for the Auckland Theatre Company. Make the main auditorium a 500 seat theatre and put a 150-200 seat theatre in one of the smaller rooms (there's one that I rehearsed in once which was up the left hand staircase as you walked in off Queen St). This would mean no more gigs there, except maybe all-seater ones......

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  • Hard News: Veitch,

    Given that she recorded this jolly track ten years ago when recording companies still had squillions of A&R people, it makes you wonder why she wasn't spotted then...

    I suspect because a lot of A&R guys were like Simon "I'll sign Take That if they dump the fat one" Cowell

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Veitch,

    I remember reading that American Idol contestants, for example, are weeded into three groups before the judges even lay eyes on them. The middle group - the unexceptional ones - never see the judges at all, while the other two groups - 'good singers' and 'deluded/crazy/taking the piss people' get to go to the audition room we see on the telly.

    That is exactly right Danielle. Often the producers of the show do this before the judges have seen them - the auditions we see are in fact every contestant's second audition. The judges' reactions are usually completely unscripted and unrehearsed as they are seeing the contestants for the first time, just like we are.
    However, with Ms Boyle I get the feeling that Simon Cowell, being a producer of the show, was in on this right from the start. And being cynical I have a feeling that she may have even auditioned in a previous series and Cowell brought her in when the franchise was flagging and needed a lift.
    I thought she was good, but if you took a recording of her without the backstory and without seeing her it wouldn't be remarkable.
    I Dreamed A Dream was a good choice though - that's always a good one for getting people to cry and it suits the "backstory" she has well.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 192 posts Report Reply

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