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March 22, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 26: Michael Jackson, Auckland 1996

I remember the announcement – tickets on sale the old-school way, you had to line-up; just pre-internet-booking. I thought about sleeping out overnight – but decided against it, I didn’t have a sleeping bag. Could have taken the car and slept in it but decided instead to just have an early night and set the […]
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November 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 23: Violent Femmes, Wellington 1995

I’ve seen the Violent Femmes a couple of times. Great fun always. I’ll go again I’m sure – I hope. If we ever get past this Covid-thing to the level that we bring the international bands back in, as promised, then the Femmes is one of the bands on the cards – and one I’ll […]
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August 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 22: Guns N’ Roses, Auckland 1993

My son asks me about Guns N Roses these days. Quite often actually. He is getting hooked on hard rock – KISS, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, selected Beastie Boys, that sort of thing. And he’s always been into the Appetite For Destruction album – because it’s one of the few CDs I still own, and round […]
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November 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 19: Stevie Wonder, Christchurch 2008

I’ve loved Stevie Wonder’s music my whole life. My mum tells the story that one of the records they’d rock me to sleep with was Songs In The Key of Life – which was born the same year as me and makes me think my folks were pretty fucking hip. And so, of course I […]
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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 15: Steely Dan, Wellington 2011

What struck me about seeing Steely Dan live – something I guess I knew already but it felt remarkable to actually see and hear it taking place, being shaped – was the bubble that this band’s music exists in; the bubble that Fagen and Becker’s music occupies, floats around in – impervious. There have been […]
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August 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #132 – Kraftwerk – Autobahn, Sydney, 2013

Nothing this good ever happens to me! I got an email out of the blue one day, I was invited to Sydney – to pick a weekend to attend as much as I could of their Vivid Festival. So I picked the opening weekend, Kraftwerk was to perform its series of 8 shows, 8 albums, […]
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December 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 2: Bailterspace, 1995-2000

So I’m listening to the new (old) Bailterspace album, Trinine. It’s better than the 2-piece version of the band; that other new album from recent times – which was simply okay. Good for existing, but not great. This one was recorded before that one but here it is now. It features the classic line-up; the […]
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