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March 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Verlaines (March 9, Wgtn)

Verlaines Shed 6 Wednesday, March 9 In 1982 The Dunedin Double was released, a double EP featuring the music of four Flying Nun groups, this year’s festival is celebrating that landmark recording with two of the bands from that compilation appearing across two evenings. The first night saw The Chills run through their pure pop, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Arts Festival, Dominion Post, Dunedin Double, Festival of the Arts, Gig Review, Gig Review: The Chills (March 8, Gig Review: Verlaines (March 9, Graeme Downes, Jane Dodd, Live, Live Gig, NZ Festival, Robbie Yeats, Shed 6, Stuff.co.nz, The Chills, The Dunedin Double, The Verlaines, Verlaines, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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May 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader: Issue # 3

The crew from Phantom Billstickers have sent issue number three of the Café Reader out to the streets. You’ll find it in music stores, cafés, bars and restaurants around your town. If you can’t find it let them know I reckon they’ll find a way to get a copy to you. It’s a FREE magazine […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alice, Anahera Gildea, Brett Lupton, Bruce Mahalaski, Cafe Reader, Chris Moar, Creative Writing, Free, Garth Cartwright, George Henderson, Graeme Downes, Hayley Theyers, Issue # 3, Jeanne Bernhardt, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Jenny Powell, Jim Wilson, Liz Breslin, Magazine, Memoir, Music, Phantom Billstickers, Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader, Poems, Poetry, Promo, Richard Langston, Sam Hunt, Short Stories, Simon Sweetman, Street Press, Tourettes, Tuisata Avia, Verlaines, Winter Edition, Writing ·

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March 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Verlaines: Hallelujah All The Way Home [Reissue]

The Verlaines Hallelujah All The Way Home [Reissue] Captured Tracks/Flying Nun You listen to these Flying Nun reissues and just want to shout, er, Hallelujah; just want to say god bless you to Captured Tracks and to the new direction of Flying Nun for organising the partnership to see albums like this reissued, let loose […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Captured Tracks, Flying Nun, Graeme Downes, Hallelujah All The Way Home, Reissue, The Verlaines, Verlaines ·

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January 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1204

Verlaines, Juvenalia (1987) I’m stoked to have the newly reissued Verlaines albums on vinyl – and I must tell you I wasn’t an instant convert to Juvenalia. I liked the Verlaines but I just had dubbed tapes, songs that were on compilations and a band best-of, You’re Just Too Obscure For Me. That was doing […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1987, Death & The Maiden, Doomsday, Flying Nun, Graeme Downes, Juvenalia, LP, Reissue, Richard Langston, Verlaines, Vinyl ·

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December 2, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1731

Barbara Manning, In New Zealand (1999) This beautiful mini-album – somewhere between and EP and a full-lengther (7 tracks, one gorgeous long, loping instrumental to close) – has been a favourite of mine for many years. I strolled in to a store for a browse, about 12 years ago now I guess (given the release […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Barbara Manning, Calexico, Chris Knox, David Kilgour, EP, Flying Nun, Graeme Downes, In New Zealand, Joey Burns, John Convertino, Patience Is Gone, The Verlaines, Vinyl ·

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