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March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 223 – Alejandro Escovedo, Wellington, 2019

I don’t usually write about a show for Stubs the same year that it happens – but I’m doing this here now with Alejandro Escovedo in place of an actual review. I didn’t review the show – but I did love it. I chose not to review it because I didn’t make it there at the start, didn’t see the whole […]

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November 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Lit-Sync For Your Life: LitCrawl 2018

This Saturday (November 10) I’ll be part of Lit-Sync For Your Life – which is part of LitCrawl 2018. LitCrawl is a series of literary events in Wellington across November 8-11 (you can check out my recent podcast with the event’s co-creators to get the full run-through of this year’s program). Lit-Sync For Your Life […]

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July 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Steve Gunn (July 14, Wgtn)

Steve Gunn Caroline Friday, July 14 American guitar wizard Steve Gunn was in town for a small show, part of his first New Zealand tour – Gunn is known for (and because of) his work with Kurt Vile and from there to a handful of records that alternate between solo, acoustic excursions and band projects […]

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May 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Gemma Ray (May 6, Wgtn)

Gemma Ray Caroline Saturday, May 6 The British-born, Berlin-based Gemma Ray was in town for a few shows on the back of an Australian tour. Backed by drummer and co-songwriter Andrew Zammit and keyboardist/backing vocalist Gris-de-Lin, Ray’s trio looked – and sounded – like a Tarantino dream; like something you’d see and hear in a […]

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December 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 88 A Tour of Two Cities Part Two: Napier

There were never really any groupies that followed the Spines – or not that I knew of. I put it down to the fact that we were pretty intense and through the times in the eighties that I was single we always had women in the band itself. There was one period there though, after […]