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December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 217 – Verlaines, Wellington, 2016
Shit this was good. I mean great. I mean really fucking good. Cos for some reason I kinda wasn’t expecting it to be. I love the Verlaines, sure. But I’d seen The Chills the night previous (this was billed as “The Dunedin Double” – though it was arbitrary, no anniversary or anything…) and I just […]Archive
December 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Pavement: The Greatest Band of the 1990s
The 1990s had several big bands that staked a claim – obviously Nirvana even though they didn’t last longer than half the decade; obviously many people will want to say Pearl Jam because they started in the 1990s and released a few albums across that decade – and carried on from there. And Smashing Pumpkins […]Archive
December 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman