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March 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi (March 4, Wellington)
Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi MFC, Wellington Wednesday, March 4 When I reviewed There Is No Other – the duo album recorded over a handful of days last year by Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi – I talked about the tantalising prospect of this pair of musicologists taking to the road in support of this […]Archive
March 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The New Pornographers (March 3, Wellington)
The New Pornographers MFC, Wellington Tuesday, March 3 Across the last two decades the North American supergroup The New Pornographers has never really let the side down; theirs is a catalogue brimming with competence and, usually, confidence. If anything there’s a safeness that ever so slightly irks – that’s a small and very white complaint […]Archive
February 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Kate Tempest (February 24, Wellington)
Kate Tempest MFC, Wellington Monday, February 24 I’d had people asking me about Kate Tempest ever since she was announced to be part of the 2020 NZ Festival. I’d seen her five years back when she was lesser known out here and it was one of the best gigs I’ve ever seen. So all I’d […]Archive
February 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Chosen and Beloved – MAU Wahine and NZSO (February 21, Wellington)
Chosen and Beloved: Curated by Lemi Ponifasio – MAU Wahine, NZSO and Racha Rizk (Conducted by Kristan Jarvi) MFC, Wellington Friday, February 21 For the opening night of the NZ Festival expectations were very high for Chosen and Beloved. The first week guest curator Lemi Ponifasio took words from Henryk Gorecki’s Third Symphony (aka The […]Archive
February 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 245 – Fleetwood Mac, Auckland, 2019
I wasn’t sold on seeing Fleetwood Mac again straight away – which is to say I was real happy for anyone that was planning to go, but I’d seen them and even if it wasn’t with Christine it was with Lindsey! (And I’m Team Lindsey all the way). But I’m also a Neil Finn fan […]Archive
February 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Stranglers (February 14, Wellington)
The Stranglers w/ Mi-Sex Opera House, Wellington Friday, February 14 I saw The Stranglers in 2016 – this version of the band. And it was superb. So much so I wasn’t sure I needed to see the band again (they’ve been back twice since) but then something made me think that it wouldn’t at all […]Archive
February 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Mutton Birds (February 7, Wellington)
The Mutton Birds San Fran, Wellington Friday, February 7 Two sold out Mutton Birds shows in Wellington! And I was lucky to get to one. Luckier still, it seems, to get to the second one. How do I know that? Well there were murmurs of the band playing one big song earlier on and then […]Archive
February 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Queen + Adam Lambert (February 5, Wellington)
Queen + Adam Lambert Sky Stadium, Wellington Wednesday, February 5 I was there. At a Queen concert. Well, a “Queen + Adam Lambert” concert (which is a Queen concert these days). But would I do the fandango? What was I doing at a Queen concert? I have written – often – about not liking this […]Archive
February 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 243 – Yawning Man, Wellington, 2020
First gig of 2020. And I forgot to write a review. That sounds lazy doesn’t it. I write the reviews just for this site, for me – and for you if you’re reading them. And school holidays proved quite tricky to be timely with content. It’s been hard enough getting back into writing album reviews […]Archive
December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gigs I Saw in 2019
I probably saw fewer gigs – and reviewed fewer gigs – in 2019 than any other year. That’s kinda nice. I also paid for a few shows too; more than other years. That’s also nice – liberating…although I’m so conditioned to writing a review to process the show that I still turn out the reviews […]Archive
November 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman