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April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Norah Jones (April 24, Wgtn)
Norah Jones TSB Bank Arena; Wellington Wednesday, April 24 Listening to a Norah Jones album and attending a Norah Jones concert…they used to be a very similar experience. I know this because I saw Jones on her first two tours of New Zealand. Back then she was shy and the demure, deer-in-headlights thing was a […]Archive
January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)
Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]Archive
June 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Paul McCartney: One NZ Show (Dec, 2017)
Sir Paul McCartney has just announced that New Zealand will be part of his current One On One tour. He will play Auckland December 16th. Mt Smart Stadium. The Australian/NZ component of the tour was announced in a Facebook Live Q&A hosted by Tim Minchin. A rather painful, weird and unnecessary way of creating some sense […]Archive
September 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: Two NZ Shows (Feb, 2017)
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will play two shows in New Zealand in February, 2017. On tour in Australia for a month-long stay the two NZ shows will see Springsteen and band perform in Christchurch at the AMI Stadium on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake, Feb 21 and […]Archive
August 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stuart Coupe: Gudinski – The Godfather of Australian Rock’n’Roll
Gudinski – The Godfather of Australian Rock’n’ Roll Stuart Coupe Hachette Michael Gudinski looms large over Australian music. As tour promoter, record label owner, artist manager, publishing guy…which means he looms large over New Zealand too, as creator of Mushroom Music and Frontier Touring. He’s gone on to have film successes (Chopper, Wolf Creek) but […]Archive
May 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 892
Billy Idol, Vital Idol (1985) I had the tape (different cover to the LP) and it used to play over and again in my big blue Volvo in my final years of school. I had a half-hour drive to the hockey field half-a-dozen times a week, got good at driving (and even better at hockey) […]Archive
May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Live Music
Sad news for fans of live music, The Eagles will be playing a show in Auckland, New Zealand, March 15, 2015. Frontier Touring has, at least, given fair warning, but this does seem to suggest the death of live music. It is the Eagles’ first tour of New Zealand in twenty years but to reflect the […]Archive
April 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman