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April 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: April 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… I […]
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December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gigs I Saw in 2019

I probably saw fewer gigs – and reviewed fewer gigs – in 2019 than any other year. That’s kinda nice. I also paid for a few shows too; more than other years. That’s also nice – liberating…although I’m so conditioned to writing a review to process the show that I still turn out the reviews […]
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November 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Th’ Dudes (NZ Tour, April 2020)

Th’ Dudes reunite for Th’ Bliss Tour, performing five dates across New Zealand in April 2020. The news comes just days ahead of the band receiving the Legacy Award and being inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Touring for the first time without founding member […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, April, April 2020), Bruce Hambling, Dave Dobbyn, Eccles, Ian Morris, Lez White, NZ Music Hall of Fame, NZ Tour, Rikki Morris, Th' Dudes, The Sound, Tour Announcement: Th' Dudes (NZ Tour ·

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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Patti Smith To Play Two NZ Shows (April 2020)

Patti Smith returns to New Zealand for the first time since she shared the bill with Bob Dylan. That was in 1998. Two years ago she announced Australian shows and I wrote a piece begging promoters to bring her to New Zealand. My call went unanswered by promoters but I received an email from Patti Smith inviting […]
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May 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 226 – Snarky Puppy, Wellington, 2019

Something clever happened here – Snarky Puppy sold a version of jazz to an audience of hipster-indie fans and boofheads (and some genuine jazzers too I guess…) and I wanted to know a bit more about that, having only heard some of their recordings and having missed their previous visits to the country. It blows me away they can sell so […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, April, Gig, Indie, Jazz, Live Gig, Musicianship, Opera House, Snarky Puppy, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 226, Stubs: # 226 – Snarky Puppy, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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April 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: April 2019

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… This […]
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April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Norah Jones (April 24, Wgtn)

Norah Jones TSB Bank Arena; Wellington Wednesday, April 24 Listening to a Norah Jones album and attending a Norah Jones concert…they used to be a very similar experience. I know this because I saw Jones on her first two tours of New Zealand. Back then she was shy and the demure, deer-in-headlights thing was a […]
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April 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 224 – Cigna Saints, Wellington, 2019

I had a really great chat with a Facebook friend the other day. We had never met. But he recognised me and got chatting about things I’d written and from there we had a huge conversation about the arts and culture and content and contributing and how being an audience member, a consumer, is part of the […]
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March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Children: Theatre

The Children Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Lucy Kirkwood) Circa Theatre; Circa One (March 30-April 27) In Lucy Kirkwood’s script and in Susan Wilson’s staging and pacing The Children is a triumph. This is an example of every part of the puzzle fitting, of every piece needing to be there – for this production is elegantly and […]
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April 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: April 2018

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]
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March 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Theatre Preview: Your Heart Looks Like A Vagina

Following the sold out debut season in 2017, Dominic ‘Tourettes’ Hoey brings his original autobiographical theatre piece ‘Your Heart Looks Like A Vagina’ back for a return season at The Basement Theatre in Auckland and to Wellington’s BATS Theatre in April. ‘Your Heart Looks Like A Vagina’ is a one man show that will bring […]
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November 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 213 – The Stranglers, Wellington, 2016

No doubt some people wanted to whinge and moan and say “It’s not really The Stranglers” – half a band at best – but usually those people are the ones who don’t go to the show. No one could have gone to this and been upset. It was all the hits – and yet it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), April, Ed Kuepper, Gig Review, Live Gig, Opera House, post-punk, Punk, Stranglers, Stub, Stubs, Stubs 213, Stubs: # 213– The Stranglers, The Stranglers, UK, Wellington, Wgtn ·
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