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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
February 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman