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May 4, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Preview: Dirty Spoons, BOX OF HAMMERS and Bachelor of Architecture, Photospace, Saturday, May 7, 2022

This Saturday, May 7, my band Dirty Spoons will be part of a line-up at Photospace Gallery in Courtenay Place. Also on the line-up BOX OF HAMMERS (featuring John Kingston) and Bachelor of Architecture (Jules Desmond). The show starts at 6pm and it’s FREE ENTRY. There’ll be some beer and wine and non alcoholic refreshments. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 6pm, Bachelor of Architecture, BOX OF HAMMERS, Courtenay Place, Dirty Spoons, Free, Gig, Gig Preview, May 7, NZ Music Month, Photospace, Photospace Gallery, Saturday ·

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May 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

The Best New Zealand Music Drives Me Home

Drive along any coast of this country and listen to Pink Frost by The Chills or Anything Can Happen by The Clean or Hanging In The Wire by Dave Dobbyn or Clockhouse Shuffle by Waves, or, well, I’m obviously just naming songs. New Zealand songs. New Zealand artists. Some well-known, some less obvious, but from […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Kiwi, Music, NZ Herald, NZ Music, NZ Music Month, The Best New Zealand Music Drives Me Home, The Blessing The Curse And The Craving Of Local Music, Time Out ·

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June 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: May 2018

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Bic's Birthday, Birthday Suite, Emily Fairlight, Jesse Mulligan, Kiwi, Kody Neilson, May, May 2018, Mother of Gloom, NZ, NZ Music Month, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: May 2018, RNZ Reviews: May2018, The Loneliest Race ·

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May 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 113 Flying Nun

There’s been so much written about them already but I thought I’d chime in with my experience with the label and its people. The Spines came to it after being disillusioned at Jayrem. I’d met Roger Shepherd several times over the years at gigs and he’d always expressed interest in the band so it was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged AudioCulture, Carey Hibbert, Chatherine Povey, David Kilgour, Dunedin, Flying Nun, Ghost of Electricity, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Idiot Sun, Jayrem, Jon Mcleary, Martin Phillipps, May, Music, New Zealand Music Month, NZ Music Month, NZMM, Painting, R.I.P., Roger Shepherd, Shayne Carter, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Miscreant, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 113, Wellington, Writing, You Seem To Be Happy ·

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May 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

DJ Setlist: Anything Could Happen – A Selection of Kiwi Music for the end of New Zealand Music Month 29/05/16

Anything Could Happen is right – for this set of tunes at the Southern Cross I found myself on one turntable only; meaning it wasn’t really DJing…nothing to do but pick records and line then up for a quick change, fader down, next one on, hope that the gap wasn’t too obvious (even though it […]
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