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October 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: October 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 now nearly three years into […]
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August 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival 2018

This October, The Harcourts Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival takes place in Napier, Hastings and Havelock North at a variety of locations – check out the program. Also, as part of the festival there is a series of Writers & Readers talks and events. Join me on Saturday October 20, at the Cabana in Napier – I’ll be in […]
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January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Final Quarter

I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]
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September 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Nadia Reid: Preservation NZ Tour (Oct 2017)

Nadia Reid returns to tour New Zealand in October. The songs from her wonderful Preservation have been taken abroad and now return to local stages. She’s played the music from that album (and from the also-brilliant earlier record) a bunch of times now – at home and away. And she’s a spellbinding performer. These shows […]
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June 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Lionel Richie and Nile Rodgers (CHIC) to Play Two NZ Shows: Akld and ChCh (Oct, 2017)

It’s called the All The His tour and it’ll be a great, great show. Lionel Richie is a terrific live act, all those great songs from his solo albums and the Commodores years. He’s also one of my all-time favourite interviews. And a great show he played in Wellington in 2011. He’s no stranger to […]
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November 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – October

A busy month, October. Lots of posts. I got into a bit of theatre-reviewing, there were some conversation and blog-post type things – not just the straight reviews. We debuted a new special guest with Retro Record Reviews and still lots of record reviews too – including plenty of albums by big names in the […]
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