{"id":634735,"date":"2026-10-18T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634735\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:24:08","slug":"ucsa-apologises-to-katayanagi-twins-after-crowd-booed-and-threw-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634735\/","title":{"rendered":"UCSA apologises to Katayanagi Twins after crowd booed and threw items"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe apologise to the Katayanagi Twins for the technical issues (which were entirely on us and are not a reflection on the Katayanagi Twins).\u201d<\/p>\n
The audience at the Tea Party began throwing stuff after technical issues disrupted the event. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
It apologised to the sisters for not removing them from the stage sooner while working to resolve the issues. <\/p>\n
The Katayanagi Twins had tried to switch a mixer they were using because it was overheating and the music kept cutting out. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t understand that\u2019s not our fault. They started throwing stuff at us,\u201d one sister said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome guy said it was the worst set that he\u2019s ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avondale’s DJ duo The Katayanagi Twins, China and Rain. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
UCSA also said it was \u201cdisappointing to have seen the booing and throwing of items from people in the crowd\u201d in response to the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t condone this behaviour towards artists,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want our artists to feel safe and have a great on-stage experience, especially when issues are not within their control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologise to the Katayanagi Twins for not protecting them during their set.\u201d<\/p>\n
They also confirmed there would be \u201cfollow-up on crowd behaviour from the event\u201d.<\/p>\n
The twins described the experience as \u201crough\u201d and \u201cbrutal\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey started chanting \u2018DJ f*** off\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n
Katayanagi Twins added that they expect better behaviour from a crowd towards performers. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it\u2019s not our fault. We want you guys to have a good time, we want to have a good time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also feel bad we didn\u2019t get to play … we need a redemption gig.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe apologise to the Katayanagi Twins for the technical issues (which were entirely on us and are not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,95,38860,43507,3110,51,236798,8126,15441,17752,1871,2837,156,8231,1452,19474,310660,111,139,69,4762,32325,1534,3767,4248,165,60048,61,1850,310661,310984,1528,9630,3608,3807,1316],"class_list":["post-634735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-and","tag-apologised","tag-apologises","tag-association","tag-auckland","tag-booed","tag-canterbury","tag-crowd","tag-disrupted","tag-duo","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-event","tag-issues","tag-items","tag-katayanagi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-renowned","tag-saturday","tag-students","tag-technical","tag-their","tag-threw","tag-to","tag-twins","tag-twinsister","tag-ucsa","tag-university","tag-universitys","tag-were","tag-west","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}