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June 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 25 – Roger Shepherd

Welcome to episode 25 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by our brand new sponsor, Phantom Billstickers. This episode features a chat with Roger Shepherd, the guy that started Flying Nun Records, the guy who has written the fantastic memoir, In Love With These Times – My Life With Flying Nun Records.
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September 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Kerretta: Pirohia

Kerretta Pirohia Kerretta/Golden Antenna/Midium The third full-lengther from Auckland’s Kerretta is the band’s biggest and best. Now this is a group that already shoulders comparisons to Jakob, Mogwai, Isis and – well – just about any other great instrumental-focussed post-rock band you care to think about. But, like Mountaineater and Jakob, there’s something distinctly Kiwi […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, An Emerald City, Beastwars, David Holmes, H. Walker, HDU, Isis, Jakob, Kerretta, Mogwai, Mountaineater, Piohia, William Waters ·

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October 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Mountaineater (October 11; Wgtn)

Mountaineater San Francisco Bath House Friday, October 11 My first time seeing Mountaineater in some time – essentially a new band from when I saw them. This time to promote their brand new album. So they start, with the opening brace from that record. Cavernous, somehow Tristan Dinegmans issues a sound that is heavy – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Release Tour, Gig Review, HDU, Live, Live Gig, Live Music, Mountaineater, Nil Nil, NZ Tour, Riki Gooch, San Francisco Bath House, The Nudge, Tristan Dingemans, Wellington ·

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October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Mountaineater: Mountaineater

Mountaineater Mountaineater Banished From The Universe Dunedin’s Mountaineater has a weight of expectation behind it, on top of it, all around it, some two years in the making – and finally we have the band’s debut self-titled full-length album. But Mountaineater arrived as a known quantity essentially, because this is the post-HDU project for singer […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bailterspace, Debut Album, Dunedin, Flying Nun, HDU, Jakob, Maggot Brain, Mountaineater, NZ, Pornography, Post-Rock, The Cure, The Gordons, The Skeptics, Tool, Tristan Dingemans ·

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September 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Mountaineater: Album Preview

I’ve been listening to an advance-copy of the upcoming album release from Mountaineater. It’s superb – I’ve been gushing about it a wee bit over on the Blog On The Tracks Facebook page; to me it feels inspired, at least in part, by the early albums from The Cure. But in saying that I was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Advance Stream, Album Preview, Gutterball, HDU, Mountaineater, Pornography, Post-Rock, The Cure ·

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April 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Mean: Knowing

Mean Knowing (Independent) This band/project, and this album/project will go some way toward closing the gap between albums by Jakob. Here, Jakob’s guitarist Jeff Boyle shapes seven instrumental pieces – a winding, evolving post-rock journey – with Hamish Walker (from Avotor and Keretta). The result cleverly – clearly – references the work they have done […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Avotor, Bandcamp, Hamish Walker, HDU, Jakob, Jasper de Roos, Jeff Boyle, Keretta, Knowing, Mean, Meterman, Mountaineater, Tristan Dingemans ·

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