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June 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Simon O’Neill & Rodger Fox (June 9, 2019)
Simon O’Neill & Rodger Fox MFC, Wellington (3pm) Sunday, June 9 Every year, in the Sunday 3pm slot at the Jazz Festival, Rodger Fox (and his Big Band) offers up an innovative collaboration. We’ve had Rodger and band with classical pianist Michael Houstoun – they even made a record together as a result. We’ve had Fox reuniting […]Archive
June 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Alicia Olatuja (June 8, 2019)
Alicia Olatuja MFC, Wellington (8pm) Saturday, June 8 Alicia Olatuja has the perfect backstory for a jazz festival appearance in NZ – she was part of the choir at one of Barack Obama’s inaugurations and with that as a springboard she is still in the beginnings of her solo career but has recently released a fine-enough album where she pays tribute to […]Archive
May 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Gregg Bissonette Drum Workshop (May 26, Wgtn)
Gregg Bissonette: Drum Workshop Memorial Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington Sunday, May 26 American session-star drummer Gregg Bissonette is in the country as part of Rodger Fox’s touring Jazz Gala and ahead of those concerts for a series of drum workshops. He’s been to New Zealand a bunch of times – some 20 years ago as a clinician and more recently as the […]Archive
May 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Brodsky Quartet (May 20, Wgtn)
Brodsky Quartet MFC Monday, May 20 Britain’s long-running Brodsky Quartet (formed in 1972 and still with two original members) are known for their regular touring (including at least four visits to New Zealand) and their crossover pop collaborations (Elvis Costello, Bjork, Paul McCartney) as well as their refined chamber work – including a fondness for the string-quartet […]Archive
May 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Dr. Jane Goodall (May 19, Wgtn)
Jane Goodall: Rewind The Future MFC Sunday, May 19 It was such a thrill to see and hear Dr Jane Goodall speak. The 85-year-old living legend of science, a primatologist, conservationist, activist, mentor who, Sir David Attenborough aside, is truly without peer, has been in our lives as a voice of compassion and knowledge. Through multiple […]Archive
May 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Comedy Festival: James Acaster (Te Auaha, Wgtn)
James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 Te Auaha Tuesday May 15 – Saturday May 19 (7.00pm) It’s getting harder to review comedy – and I don’t just mean for me, since I don’t go out to it as often as I once did. I’m not bemoaning a lack of match fitness. The rules have […]Archive
May 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Luke Wright (May 13, Wgtn)
Luke Wright Meow; Wellington Monday, May 13 I call it a “Gig Review” – but it’s a poetry reading. Still, “Gig Review” seems to suit, poetry reading suggests something staid, safe, possibly boring. Not even the chance with one of the UK’s finest modern poetic voices – Luke Wright. Here for writers/readers festivals and Wellington was […]Archive
May 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders (May 11, Wgtn)
Delaney Davidson & Barry Saunders Meow; Wellington Saturday, May 11 The new album by Delaney and Barry is one of those so-obvious-it-had-to-happen ideas that happened due to the two troubadours meeting half a decade ago when on the bill together for one of the Church Tours of the country.Archive
May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 225 – Madeleine Peyroux, Wellington, 2014
I’d seen Madeleine Peyroux one other time (part of a triple bill with Melody Gardot and Diana Krall; Peyroux was the star) and in the build up to this gig, a Festival show, I interviewed her, a really pleasant surpise – because I hadn’t expected Peyroux to be chatty. I have no idea why, beyond the back-story of her taking time out between her first couple of albums, disappearing […]Archive
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
April 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman