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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 210 – Patti Smith, Melbourne, Australia 2017
When it was announced that Patti Smith would be playing Horses in its entirety I wanted to be there. No New Zealand show though. I found that out from Patti Smith herself. Surreal, huh? I wrote a short piece for my then daily-blogging fix, about how someone should bring Smith to NZ. I talked about […]Archive
May 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Hand To God: Theatre
Hand To God Direction: Lyndee-Jane Rutherford (written by Robert Askins) Circa Theatre; Circa One (April 22 – May 20) Yes, you will see puppets fucking – let’s get that out of the way right now, it’s no plot-spoiler, the play is billed around that. And it’s crude and brilliant and devastatingly funny and you can […]Archive
April 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Record Store Day 2017: Southbound Records
April means Record Store Day and this year it’s Saturday, April 22. Our friends at Southbound Records always put on a great day, they believe in first-come-first-served for the special RSD releases and will have over 300 exclusive on-the-day/for-the-day titles in-store. They’ll also have coffee and baking for customers – with doors open from 9.00am. […]Archive
March 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman