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This was to mark only the beginning of a prolongued and unrelenting campaign waged by ''St Lucy'' against "Kiwiaana" and the "cult of personality" within New Zealand popular culture.  For a gig supporting ''Ian Morris'' in Auckland, St Lucy put out his own posters defaming the image of television's ''Charlotte Dawson'', and was threatened with legal action by Dawson's lawyer if he did not "cease and desist" immediately.  Far from it, the list of casualties would eventually include TV presenters ''Mary Lambie'', ''Jason Gunn'' and the judges of ''NZ Idol''; the "thumbs up" Four Square Man; ''Neil Finn''; "NZ Hiphop" (in its entirety); ''NZ On Air''; local stations [[Contact]] FM and [[UFM]]; the [[Battle of the Bands]], [[Clinton]] magazine, just about any individual in some way affiliated with [[Contact]] or the [[Htown.co.nz]] website; this wiki; [[Johnny Fist]], [[The Datsuns]] (and especially [[Dolf de Borst]]'s bass guitar), [[Chuganaut]]... not even his friends and fellow bandmates were safe.  Ultimately, even Tupuhi himself would fall prey to the merciless parodying of alter ego Lucy.<br>
 
This was to mark only the beginning of a prolongued and unrelenting campaign waged by ''St Lucy'' against "Kiwiaana" and the "cult of personality" within New Zealand popular culture.  For a gig supporting ''Ian Morris'' in Auckland, St Lucy put out his own posters defaming the image of television's ''Charlotte Dawson'', and was threatened with legal action by Dawson's lawyer if he did not "cease and desist" immediately.  Far from it, the list of casualties would eventually include TV presenters ''Mary Lambie'', ''Jason Gunn'' and the judges of ''NZ Idol''; the "thumbs up" Four Square Man; ''Neil Finn''; "NZ Hiphop" (in its entirety); ''NZ On Air''; local stations [[Contact]] FM and [[UFM]]; the [[Battle of the Bands]], [[Clinton]] magazine, just about any individual in some way affiliated with [[Contact]] or the [[Htown.co.nz]] website; this wiki; [[Johnny Fist]], [[The Datsuns]] (and especially [[Dolf de Borst]]'s bass guitar), [[Chuganaut]]... not even his friends and fellow bandmates were safe.  Ultimately, even Tupuhi himself would fall prey to the merciless parodying of alter ego Lucy.<br>
  
[[image:St Lucy setlist, 2004.JPG |right|thumb|Setlist from 2004]]In early 2003, Tupuhi started assembling a live band.  In an interview with ''NZ Musician'' (the Feb-March 2003 issue) he said:<br>
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In early 2003, Tupuhi started assembling a live band.  In an interview with ''NZ Musician'' (the Feb-March 2003 issue) he said:<br>
  
 
''"The plan was always to build St Lucy from a solo thing into a band thing... at the moment we're putting together a superband, made up of people from bands that I like... But don't mention any names, 'cause I'm the star"'' <br>
 
''"The plan was always to build St Lucy from a solo thing into a band thing... at the moment we're putting together a superband, made up of people from bands that I like... But don't mention any names, 'cause I'm the star"'' <br>

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