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October 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 210 – Patti Smith, Melbourne, Australia 2017
When it was announced that Patti Smith would be playing Horses in its entirety I wanted to be there. No New Zealand show though. I found that out from Patti Smith herself. Surreal, huh? I wrote a short piece for my then daily-blogging fix, about how someone should bring Smith to NZ. I talked about […]Archive
April 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Patti Smith (April 16, Melbourne)
Patti Smith and her Band perform ‘Horses’ Hamer Hall, Melbourne; Vic. Sunday, April 16 It was billed as Patti Smith’s last tour of Australia and it was also a run-through of the classic album, Horses. So expectations were high. It was palpable, the theatre filling up in the half-hour ahead of show-time, a reverence, and […]Archive
February 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mecca Normal: Empathy For The Evil
Mecca Normal Empathy For The Evil M’lady’s Records/Mecca Normal Canadian duo Mecca Normal have continued on over three decades releasing records that are all cut from their minimalist palette, clean – and then a bit fuzzy – guitar, best served in shards and a passionate spoken/sung punk polemic. It’s business-as-usual then, in a sense, for […]Archive
October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: #3 The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street
“Exile On Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone readymades to fill them, and if on the one hand they prove the group’s eternal constancy and appeal, it’s on the other that you can leave the album and still feel vaguely unsatisfied, not quite […]Archive
September 6, 2011 by Simon Sweetman