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March 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Lucy Dacus Returns to NZ (June 2022)

Well, it’s been a couple of years since I’ve done a post about a live show. For obvious reasons (COVID). Any time promoters or artists have shifted the show it’s felt like a wee prayer that then goes unanswered. It’s been hard to put a brave face on it, or draw any sort of smile. […]

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July 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: July 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two records from artists that have written their own songs but were here paying tribute to […]

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June 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lucy Dacus: Home Video

Lucy Dacus Home Video Beggars Banquet Lucy Dacus releases her third and most overtly autobiographical album – there’s several threads running throughs this, where, in the olden days, we’d call it a concept album – but I want to just celebrate it as a brilliant set of songs, thematically linked (faith, relationships, celebrity) and further […]

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December 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 16: The Compleat Beatles

Maybe it’s because it’s hard to find and best remembered for what it represented (also: time/place) but I reckon The Compleat Beatles is the very best Beatles doco there’s ever been. It shits on The Anthology which is not terrible, but is, probably, far too much of a good thing. When The Anthology was released […]