KISS gonski. I hope the cancelled tour soon becomes the delayed tour.

I was excited about seeing KISS. To see 70-year-old Gene "The Demon" Simmons slap that bass while he is wearing make-up, leather pants and thigh-high boots is the stuff of dreams.

Don't ask about those dreams.

Imagine hearing them sing "Back in the Newy Groove". You better believe.

The only way to have seen KISS in Newy - which was potentially going to be the greatest concert in the city since the Marching Koalas featured Big Dog on air guitar before the fourth race at the Broadmeadow trots in 1998 - was to buy a ticket to Supercars.

If you bought a KISS ticket, you can at least be comfortable in the knowledge that you have provided a boost to the numbers of paid patrons to Supercars, which this year may surpass 12 billion, with attendees spending more than $50 billion on bourbon and coke alone.

We'll have to wait for the phone tower data to be certain of crowd numbers, but it seems likely the three days of Supercars will reap upwards of $400 trillion billion million for local businesses.

If you bought a 'Track and Concert' ticket you are entitled to a refund for the KISS concert only. Your refund will only be for the difference between the amount you paid for your 'Track and Concert' ticket and the amount you would have paid for a 'Track Only' ticket.

Take the edge off your sadness by doing a Joaquin Phoenix inspired Joker dance down the steps at Merewether ocean baths. It's all the go among Merewether types. Better beware of influencers stopping suddenly to snap a selfie. Good luck with that.

And good luck getting the builders observing development application (DA) construction times on Iris Capital's East End stage one site. The DA for the site allows operations from 7am until 6pm from Monday-to-Friday and from 8am until 1pm on Saturdays, but those times seem to be suggested guidelines rather than enforceable hours. Such disregard is an ongoing slap in the chops to locals who have been putting up with pile drivers and cement breakers from the site since the DJ's car park was demolished more than 18 months ago.

Yes, I know, sit down raving-inner-city greenie lunatic and let the overtime of the workers flow freely. You're starting to tread on Christmas.

Maybe. But a local collection of video footage with time-and-date stamping reveals crane operation on-and-around that site has sometimes started at 6am since daylight saving began and has sometimes exceeded the 6pm tools down time.

I asked the City of Newcastle (CoN) about the stipulated hours and provided just a bit of video demonstrating non-compliance. Last Wednesday, CoN officers told the construction company to observe the hours that their DA permits.

But it seems some builders appeared to almost immediately thumb their nose at that directive last Thursday night when the last crane hoisted up on the site at 6.45pm. Time-and-date stamped video does not "imagine" or "over-embellish" or get "emotional".

Being told to contact the project's private certifier to tell the construction company to comply with their DA is like asking the parent of the school bully to bring their kid into line. The public should have access to a regulator who can whack non-compliers in the back pocket for even a first offence.

The state government, the Joint Regional Planning Panel and CoN set regulations around building start-and-finish times, but it is up to residents to gather "evidence" to "prove" the regulations are being "breached" on a "regular" basis.

The loosened regulatory environment is a disgrace. It is ridiculous the public must provide proof of cowboy behaviour. There's necessary confrontation involved that many people do not want to become involved in. There's a caginess in NSW to do anything that might put a regulatory handbrake on big building projects.

Yes, yes - thank-you Dirtybird69 of Charlestown who occasionally contacts me about my carping tendencies. I anticipate Dirtybird69 will remind me that I "live in the city, it's not a graveyard. If you don't like it, move".

Is it selfish to insist that rogue builders comply with the operational hours stipulated on their DA and for CoN to hit them in the pocket when they don't comply?

Gotta shout it, shout it, shout it out loud.

But only from 7am until 6pm during Monday-to-Friday and from 8am until 1pm on Saturdays.