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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 […]

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March 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Thundercat (March 1, Wgtn)

Thundercat The Festival Club Thursday, March 1 Two years ago, almost to the day, Thundercat came and saw and conquered Wellington and I was profoundly unmoved. I love the guy’s playing – and credits (outside of his own work he’s helped to make Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington great, and that’s just for […]

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August 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs

Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]

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June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol

Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.

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March 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Thundercat: Drunk

Thundercat Drunk Brainfeeder The West Coast Get Down collective really made their mark with Kamasi Washington’s triple, The Epic. Famously, the sessions for that album resulted in a handful of other albums – in fact they’re still coming; the group set themselves the goal of wasting no time, so every day they turned up and […]