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November 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: November 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 I believe have been influenced by Nick Cave – and in […]Archive
October 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Love For Sale Interscope It’s been five years since Tony Bennett’s initial Alzheimer’s diagnosis. And he has just turned 95. This is his recorded swansong. He chose Lady Gaga to share the bill with him, rekindling their duet-connection from 2014’s Cheek to Cheek. This time around rather than just sing […]Archive
July 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Film Review – ‘A Star Is Born’
I watched that new version of A Star Is Born – it features Bradley Cooper as a nose fetishist and Lady Gaga as a nose. He was the bad side of Kris Kristofferson, none of the wisdom or insight in the lyrics, none of the heft or deft or breadth – fucking plod-happy nothing-songs that apparently get a crowd. (He fingers the nose to an Allman Brothers song. And 12 first cousins […]Archive
September 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here To Stay
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall Love Is Here To Stay Verve Since his son helped reinvent his career some 25 years ago Tony Bennett has played a simple, familiar card: Warm, weathered versions of the standards with which he made his name (the first time around). The Unplugged album was the thing that relaunched him […]Archive
October 25, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Lady Gaga: Joanne
Lady Gaga Joanne Interscope Lady Gaga is in the middle of a re-brand. Time out from the crazy outfits and a serious album of duets with Tony Bennett has been followed up with acting roles, a song for a documentary and now this, her first real serious – adult – singer/songwriter album. Unfortunately, you have […]Archive
January 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Cheek to Cheek Streamline/Columbia/Interscope Ever since his MTV Unplugged album/show/comeback Tony Bennett has been brilliant at seemingly reinventing himself while essentially lining up to do the very same thing he’s always done. He’s as spritely as can be – he’ll be 89 next birthday! – and he keeps finding new […]Archive
December 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 36 – Lady Gaga, Auckland, 2010
I’ve told this story a bit, mentioned it in passing more than a few times, you see we were in Auckland for a Pixies concert and I chanced my arm for some freebies to Lady Gaga the following night. On a whim. The idea was simply to take in that sort of show – it […]Archive
September 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman