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Amanda vs. the music industry
No, stadium gigs cannot be the way forward. They're a way of pacifying the music. Simply put, amplification = diminished effect, with the exception of electric instruments. What Paul, George, John and Ringo did, they did in intimate rooms and EMI studios. The Anthology establishes that they thought their touring gigs were subpar. Beatles Invade New Zealand is intended to create an explosion of clubs and concerts. Concert halls of 1,500-2,000, not stadiums piping in music t
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 81 min read
AM 2 - what's the message?
Read the Silent Vigil PDF on the AMPP tab. This was my plan for a protest in a dystopian nightmare version of NZ following a prescription drug overdose. I was in a depressive funk, so it's pretty tight logically speaking, though I've added a few addendums since that draft. 1. Handwritten notes are the best way to maintain secrecy. 2. Pick a particular combination of white and black for each protest to prevent infiltration. 3. Presence alone, without insignia or slogans, is
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 71 min read
Falling Back In Love With Her
Intro: Bm7(sus4)/A, A (A) Bm7(sus4)/A The same old lies reprised Amaj7 The same old cries in bed A7 The same old tears we shed Bm7 E7 Amaj7 'Cause I'm falling back in love with her. (Amaj7) Bm7(sus4)/A I can't control my pride: Amaj7 It's swollen twice it's size. A7 'Cause when I met her eyes, I said: Bm7 E7
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 61 min read


Appropriating the Eggman
It wasn't intentional, though obviously I knew about I Am The Walrus. My Dad said that was the stupid shit the Beatles got into in the late 1960's. - The key difference is that the Eggman/Eggmen lyric is about the band. My Eggman isn't a neutral or positive character. He's a self-serving twit. Gary named my character the Prime Omelette. When Macca reached out, I decided to make the connection more explicit. The real inspiration: NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. My AI
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 51 min read


'fail ed'
The Weeded Out thieves keep on saying that between the lines. Bluntly, that's because they're established people who want to be paid. I'll never have a film career if I fail. I didn't get famous by being an actor. I got famous singing and making films. It's my politics that people want, not some milquetoast gay drama. My answer is simple: I'm not done with pursuing this via the courts. In three months, the discussion of criminal charges might open up. National beefed up t
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 41 min read
Why won't I sing roles?
Unlike Sir Paul, I'm a fully trained composer with a postgraduate degree. Writing opera is premised on the idea that my melodies are communicable. If I demonstrate the songs, it intimidates people. They can't imitate my voice, but my Perfumed Garden tunes are all written down. I don't sound like a Middle Eastern person, plus I find acting tedious. People want to possess my voice, but that's immaterial when the tunes are composed. Anyone could sing those songs, particularly
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Amanda Riddell
Feb 31 min read
Amanda vs. Sony
Where did they stuff up? They claimed they had music rights. That was the alarm bell that the McCartneys recognised as suspicious. Paul's spent most of his life consolidating those. Even I had got a grilling regarding the songs that he wanted me to include on AM 2. He gave me an exemption when I told him that nobody buys my albums. - As I said, I saw a mental image of an empty signature. Didn't realise what it meant until a few days later. Yoko definitely wasn't aware o
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 301 min read
Elder abuse?
Yeah, that's how the McCartneys have framed it. As I said, Dakta had some problems with that. It's plausible: even in his eighties, Paul's gigs are really lucrative. Haven't made contact with his fan page. I'd rather wait a bit. Got other fish to fry.
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 271 min read
Parliament 27 January 2026
No Question Time today. Smoked lots of weed, so it was fairly painless. 1:00pm - Iranian freedom protest on Parliament Grounds. Pro-Shah. 1:50 pm - David waved at the Speaker's Gallery, including me. 1:57 pm - A spy sits down in the Speaker's Gallery spy seat. - PM's statement on the Mt. Maunganui landslide: 'deepest condolences' Distracting from real issues with performative sincerity 'This is a tragedy ... long, painful days ... worked tirelessly ...' 'Our hearts and t
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 274 min read
To Victoria University of Wellington
No, you can't bribe me with a residence or tenure talk. I'm going to take you to court for harassment. I expect a chunky settlement. As I say, you can pay me a larger sum, or clear my debt to pay a smaller one. I continue to refuse any association or affiliation with the university. Perhaps you should've thought about that before all the nonsense in 2025. Just pay me the money. It's like 0.01% of your annual operating budget.
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 261 min read
Weeded Out: final letter to the lawyers
Weeded Out is an original dramatic work authored solely by me, with authorship and originality established by time-stamped drafts spanning 2020–2022, demonstrating continuous and consistent “creative DNA” (characters, plot architecture, themes, and scene sequence) predating all later conflicts. My subsequent prose project Just Like Yesterday (commenced 2024 and still incomplete) is a derivative adaptation of that underlying screenplay, and the absence of a final prose ending
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 232 min read
Letter: Refusal to Play Paul McCartney
Subject: Formal Notice — No Interest in Acting / Refusal to Portray Paul McCartney To the Producers, Casting Team, and Representatives of Sony Pictures (and any affiliated production entity), I am writing to provide formal notice that I am not interested in acting in your upcoming Beatles-related film project, including any proposal, request, or suggestion that I portray Paul McCartney (or any other Beatle), whether as a lead, supporting role, cameo, voice performance, mot
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read
Letter: Declining Acting Interest (Merrily We Roll Along)
Subject: Notice — No Interest in Acting / No Consent to Approach To the Producers and Casting Team of Merrily We Roll Along , I am writing to provide clear notice that I am not interested in acting in your production, in any capacity (including cameo roles, featured appearances, background, voice work, motion capture, or related promotional activity). This position is final, and should be treated as a formal boundary. For the avoidance of doubt, this letter also serves as n
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read
What about those ads?
I saw something that Rana, from the PSNA film, was posting about which inspired the Fucked-Up Children of the Rich video. There's no incitements to violence in the lyrics. It's 'fuck the children' not 'kill the children' It's 'scramble his egg pan' not 'scramble his brain pan' In Children of the Rich, it's the eggs who are excluding people. AI imagery is getting really good, and it's a bit unsettling. - As I said this morning, they're video loops, so it's more like they
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read
Stop with the 'amy' nonsense
No, it's not my legal name. I changed my legal name to Amanda. Sorry, Mrs. Luxon. You and your husband need to play fair. Don't fund bullies: have an actual conversation. Meet me. Acknowledge my existence rather than attempting to eradicate me. There is no split personality: I'm simply reacting to being trolled this morning. There is no soft, sweet 'split' - no, I'm always highly defensive. Wasn't diagnosed with DID. I know that doesn't jibe with you, but that means I'm wh
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read


My answer to all performance offers
Once and for all, on my website. It's not a discussion: I'm only ever going to say no. No stage roles. No screen roles. No male roles. No guitar gigs. I'm not doing those things at the moment, and certainly not for people that called me a fixated pervert while actually perving on me in a fixated and unhealthy fashion. That's my point, Red Scare. Your bullshit isn't my problem. If you want to produce my IP, you'll need to negotiate via correct channels. Lawyers. Meetings.
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read


To the Natzees
The measure for criminal harassment will be subjective distress in a few months. Pass with care signs are going to cause distress. I'm actually at risk of killing myself. We're not talking about me crying wolf. My overdose really happened, Nicola. That means you have to adopt tactics that aren't likely to make me top myself. Mr. Luxon, you have to agree that your conversion therapy tactics cannot continue. The suicide risk is simply too high. Plus they're 100% illegal. You
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 231 min read
No, I don't use AI to write music
Not even a little bit. Only in rendering out the Sibelius scores. Everything else is done via mechanical processes (reversing, pitch-shifting). There's no generative AI of any kind being used. That's why it's good. I don't auto-tune the voices. What I sang is what you hear. People have spent years attempting to discredit me, but I'm a fully capable musician. They just find it hard to accept that a transvestite part-Māori is a genius.
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 221 min read
To Red Scare and SPADA
Whether you tried to co-author is irrelevant. There was no contract. There was no binding verbal agreement. If you weren't invited to participate via email addresses and WriterDuet profiles, it's called plagiarism. Hacking into my script doesn't entitle you to credit. There's 100 pages of drafting documents as well. People began to screw with me in the last 25 or 30 pages. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GLSG0-QEmgyIiG1S-a1rOzcgcTW9N0ov/view?usp=sharing - You plagiarised m
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 211 min read
To Sony
Blame Sir Peter, not me. This is essentially his scheme, and I'm just the writer who won. Taika's also involved, but that's largely due to the Tupaia project. He's pissed that I won't work with Disney, but you guys are equally evil in my view. I've got three feature film ideas that he thinks are worth investing millions into. Your pitch simply wasn't as good, and I'm fairly sure it was all a bid for the catalogue. I've refused every offer to act. I refuse to be Paul, and th
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Amanda Riddell
Jan 203 min read
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