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August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Cringeworthy: Theatre
Cringeworthy Direction: Andrea Sanders (devised by Andrea Sanders) Circa Theatre; Circa Two (August 10 – September 7) Cringeworthy comes to us from Andrea Sanders – creator/leader of The Beat Girls. She’s created musical shows before (usually for The Beat Girls to act and sing in) here she stars alongside Tom Knowles, Carrie McLaughlin and Jeff Kingsford-Brown in a knowingly kitsch (but utterly clever and classy) tribute to the […]Archive
August 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: STROMA – Voices of the World (August 1, Wgtn)
Stroma: Voices of The World Hannah Playhouse Thursday August 1 In a wide-ranging program that sought to show connections and cross-pollinations between cultures, between the scored notes of music and the more off-the-cuff field recordings of human and animal voices, of natural sounds (rainfall), once again the Wellington-based Stroma collective hit it out of the park. This […]Archive
July 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Announcement: Steve Gunn to play SIX shows in NZ (Nov, 2019)
Steve Gunn has been a regular visitor to New Zealand – and we’re lucky when we get the chance to see him. Gunn is an incredible talent. He’s a fairly prolific recording artist too, so there’s always a great new album in tow – and he performs covers as well as originals. His music is […]Archive
July 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Alan Duff: A Conversation With My Country
A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Alan Duff wrote one of New Zealand’s most important books – Once Were Warriors. It’s not a particularly well written book. But its timing was crucial. It meant something. Since then he repeated the formula until no one cared, perfected the Old Man Yells At Cloud-persona of the truly entitled, right-wing newspaper columnist […]Archive
July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 177: Miles Golding
Welcome to episode 177 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Miles Golding is a classically trained violinist based in […]Archive
July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 176: Carl Shuker
Welcome to episode 176 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. I first met Carl Shuker close to 20 years ago. He […]Archive
July 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit: #14 Songs From A Dictaphone
By the time SJD – Sean James Donnelly – released Songs From A Dictaphone he had made three previous albums, though many would not have heard his first album since it was a limited edition CD-r type thing; eventually out in the world again for all to hear (3) and it’s a very different thing… His second album was […]Archive
May 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Luke Wright – Poet: Reading at Meow, Wellington, Monday, May 13, 2019
Verb Wellington is bringing poet Luke Wright to the capital city this coming Monday, May 13. I’ve just recently finished reading Luke Wright’s volume The Toll – and it contains six or seven of the very best poems I’ve ever read. Which is a phenomenal strike-rate. He has aspects of Stewart Lee and Roger McGough to his […]Archive
April 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Graeme Jefferies: Time Flowing Backwards
Time Flowing Backwards: A Memoir Graeme Jefferies Mosiac Press Graeme Jefferies has made some of the great noisy pop from New Zealand – he’s sent it out to the world, taken it with him as he’s traveled through America and based himself – for huge periods of time – in Europe; then he brought it all back home […]Archive
March 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 330
Last Man Standing, This Sporting Life (1986) Trust your instincts, I say. And have a browse, and a guess. And see what happens…What am I talking about? Okay, exactly this: A few weeks ago I was in Auckland, in a record store browsing, and I found this and at first I thought, “Oh my god it’s This […]Archive
March 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman