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September 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 230: Anna Dean

Welcome to episode 230 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
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August 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 269 – Thundercat, Wellington, 2018

It’s funny how sometimes you see a genius – a great talent – and it just doesn’t stick, doesn’t connect, doesn’t mean anything. The first time I saw Thundercat I was a fan – but I hated the show. It was busy when it didn’t need to be and felt very splatter-painting/ish and I just […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Arts Festival, Drunk, Gig, Gig Review, Jazz, Live Gig, R'n'B, Soul, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 269, Stubs: # 269 – Thundercat, Thundercat, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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June 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 262 – Teju Cole: Photo Lecture, Wellington, 2018

The 2018 Writers-Readers Festival was a busy one for me, I committed to going to about a dozen talks and writing something about each one. This included two talks by the writer, critic and photographer Teju Cole. I’m a big fan and particularly loved his book Blind Spot which was part of the focus for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Arts Festival, Blind Spot, Gig, Lecture, Photo Lecture, Photographer, Photographs, Stub, Stubs, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 262, Stubs: # 262 – Teju Cole: Photo Lecture, Talk, Teju Cole, Wellington, Wgtn, Writers & Readers ·

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June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 258 – Arabia-Buda-Scott, Wellington, 2018

It’s always a gamble with arts festivals – any festivals – you see some amazing stuff, you see some duds. And its all shapes and sizes – you get to have your mind blown by an act you maybe didn’t think you’d like, you get let down by something you expected would be great, you […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Arabia-Buda-Scott, Arts Festival, Gig, Gig Review, Lawrence Arabia, Live Gig, Luke Buda, NZ Festival, Sam Scott, Stubs, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 258, Stubs: # 258 – Arabia-Buda-Scott, The Phoenix Foundation, Ticket, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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June 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs # 254 – Grizzly Bear, Wellington, 2018

The first time I saw Grizzly Bear was in 2012 and it was quite good – I liked the band (enough) and in particular the album of the time. And there was a secret thrill about getting in because the newspaper had to pay for me to get in since the promoter had decided on […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Art Festival, Arts Festival, Gig Review, Grizzly Bear, Live Gig, Live Review, Opera House, Promoters, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 254, Stubs # 254 – Grizzly Bear, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Wellington ·

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June 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 253 – NOT Nadia Reid, Wellington, 2020

It was going to be the last gig I saw ahead of lockdown, though I couldn’t know that then. It was the Arts Festival and I had been to a few shows and enjoyed most of them and I was very interested to see Nadia Reid – because I had enjoyed seeing her shows, previously. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, Arts Festival, Nadia Reid, Out Of My Province, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 253 – NOT Nadia Reid, Wellington ·

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March 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Laurie Anderson – Here Comes The Ocean (March 6, Wellington)

Laurie Anderson – Here Comes The Ocean MFC, Wellington Friday, March 6 Laurie Anderson was invited to the NZ Festival as one of the guest curators – that meant performances from Anderson as well, including this: her symphony of ocean-inspired songs from late husband Lou Reed and various texts and spoken word pieces of her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, Arts Festival, Budi Putra, Eyvind Kang, Festival of the Arts, Friday, Gamelan, Gamelan Wellington, Gig Review, Gig Review: Laurie Anderson – Here Comes The Ocean (March 6, Greg Cohen, Horomona Horo, Improvisation, Laurie Anderson – Here Comes The Ocean, Live Gig, Live Music, March 6, Megan Collins, MFC, NZ Festival, Rubin Kodheli, Shahzad Ismaily, Spoken Word, Stewart Hurwood, Symphony, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi (March 4, Wellington)

Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi MFC, Wellington Wednesday, March 4 When I reviewed There Is No Other – the duo album recorded over a handful of days last year by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – I talked about the tantalising prospect of this pair of musicologists taking to the road in support of this […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Arts Festival, Banjo, Bass, Festival of the Arts, Francesco Turrisi, Gig Review, Gig Review: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi (March 4, Jason Sypher, Live Gig, March 4, MFC, NZ Festival, Rhiannon Giddens, Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, There Is No Other, Wednesday, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The New Pornographers (March 3, Wellington)

The New Pornographers MFC, Wellington Tuesday, March 3 Across the last two decades the North American supergroup The New Pornographers has never really let the side down; theirs is a catalogue brimming with competence and, usually, confidence. If anything there’s a safeness that ever so slightly irks – that’s a small and very white complaint […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, A.C. Newman, Arts Festival, Carl Newman, Festival, Festival of the Arts, Gig Review, Gig Review: The New Pornographers (March 3, Joe Seiders, Live Gig, March 3, MFC, Neko Case, New Pornographers, NZ Festival, Simi Stone, The New Pornographers, Todd Fancey, Tuesday, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 209: Lucien Johnson

Welcome to episode 209 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T  and Yeastie Boys . Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your […]
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February 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Kate Tempest (February 24, Wellington)

Kate Tempest MFC, Wellington Monday, February 24 I’d had people asking me about Kate Tempest ever since she was announced to be part of the 2020 NZ Festival. I’d seen her five years back when she was lesser known out here and it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. So all I’d […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, Arts Festival, February 24, Gig Review, Gig Review: Kate Tempest (February 24, Kate Tempest, Live Gig, Live Music, MFC, Monday, NZ Festival, Poetry, Spoken Word, The Book of Traps and Lessons, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Weyes Blood To Play Three NZ Shows (March, 2020)

Weyes Blood aka Natalie Laura Mering returns to New Zealand for three shows in March of next year. Her first appearance here in a couple of years, her first appearances out of Wellington and her first since the stunning 2019 album Titanic Rising (easily one of my picks for record of the year). Not only Weyes […]
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