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November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: I Blame Neil Gaiman

It was probably 6pm when my father dragged Amanda Palmer off the fence and dunked her face in the pool. Almost everyone had been drinking. And now Ms. Palmer had a face full of water. I’d once given her a pretty unkind review way back,  but this seemed excessive even to me. I had to […]
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March 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Folk-Punk Street Performer: Jason Webley returns to Wellington

Jason Webley is a talented musician – he plays a bunch of instruments, he writes songs that aren’t quite folk or punk but could be either. He has the skills of a circus performer, a mime artist, a busker – he was in fact discovered, in a sense, as exactly that: a street performer. He’s […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged Amanda Palmer, Bodega, Busker, Evelyn Evelyn, Folk-Punk, Interview, Jason Webley, March 6, Street-Musician, The Folk-Punk Street Performer: Jason Webley returns to Wellington, Webstock, Wellington ·

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February 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Amanda Palmer: The Art of Asking

The Art of Asking or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let People Help Amanda Palmer Grand Central Publishing As ghastly as her music, and therefore likely to be lapped up as being so soul-pleasing and profound as her music apparently is by her psychofan-sycophants. It’s full of the worst kind of false modesty, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Amanda Palmer, Book, Book Review, Dalai Lama, Dresden Dolls, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let People Help, Neil Gaiman, TED Talk, The Art of Asking, The Art of Asking or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let People Help ·

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November 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 16 – Dresden Dolls, Wellington, 2013

When I first heard Dresden Dolls I quite liked it – that first album, I knew nothing about Amanda Palmer or the band. I never listened to the music a whole lot, but it had something – a novelty-factor perhaps. The tagline “Brechtian Punk Cabaret” bugged me – but hey. And then Amanda Palmer happened. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, Amanda Palmer, Bad Review, Blog, Brechtian Punk Cabaret, Dominion Post, Dresden Dolls, Gig, Gig Review, Live, Live Gig, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 16 – Dresden Dolls, The Dresden Dolls, Ticket Stub, Wellington ·

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April 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jon Hopkins: How I Live Now [OST]

Jon Hopkins How I Live Now [OST] JustNow I haven’t seen the film – it’s based on a young-adult novel but this soundtrack suggests a lot of heart, a sincerity, something certainly sombre too. It’s easy to hear that slow-gorgeous build of The Album Leaf on The River and on shorter cues (The Hawk, Distant […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Amanda Palmer, Bat For Lashes, Daughter, How I Live Now, Immunity, Jon Hopkins, Natasha Khan, Score, Soundtrack ·

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