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April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 220 – A Musical Menagerie, Wellington, 2018
I wonder why they continue on with these shows…I mean, it can’t be fun for the performers, it’s not fun for the audience – it’s a fucking ordeal. I’m talking, in this instance of A Musical Menagerie – a show featuring our NZSO with Chris Lam Sam as the narrator/MC. The aim was to present […]Archive
March 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO (March 15, Wgtn)
Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO MFC Thursday, March 15 Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the great operatic singers of her generation. A master. Such lightness – but strength. There’s a great joy she conveys, in the very act and art of singing. And of course she’s capable of the full range of […]Archive
March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Star Wars – A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO (March 11, Wgtn)
Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert – Movie w/ Live Score performed by NZSO (Conducted by Hamish McKeich) TSB Bank Arena Sunday, March 11 I was looking forward to this – the nostalgia of the original Star Wars film (episode IV: A New Hope) with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performing John Williams’ full […]Archive
January 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 99 – Adam Page
Welcome to episode 99 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Adam Page, he’s an Australian musician – based in Adelaide. He runs Wizard Tone Studios and the label Wizard Tone Records is home to not only his own recordings but a great range […]Archive
December 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Aretha Franklin: A Brand New Me – Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Aretha Franklin A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Atlantic Catalog Group SHE’S NOT DEAD – YOU CUNTS! STOP IT! STOP IT!! ELVIS AND THE BIG O DIDN’T DESERVE IT EITHER BUT AT LEAST THEY ARE DEAD, THERE’S ALMOST SOME UNDERSTANDING BEHIND THE THINKING, ONLY SO MANY TIMES YOU CAN SELL […]Archive
August 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 506
Billy May and His Orchestra, Sorta-May [EP] (1955) One of a small handful of (small) records that I inherited from my pop – my dad’s dad. His music taste was so foreign to me when I was a kid, the cheesiest of country’n’western, opera, classical, some quite obscene folk music and then these weird albums […]Archive
August 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 515
Felix King and His Orchestra, Presenting Felix King & His Orchestra, Vol.1 (?) I love a wee look in the charity shops – you don’t find much, record-wise; it’s usually all stuff you already have or have passed by long ago – so many copies of the same old things and lots of (bad?) classical […]Archive
July 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #205 – Roald Dahl’s Dirty Beasts & Other Stories, Wellington, 2015
It’s always been fun taking Oscar to shows – well, in theory…now of course he writes his own reviews – but a couple of years ago he wasn’t quite ready, but still keen, in theory… I wrote a few words about this show – because it didn’t quite work, but best intentions…. Was thinking, just […]Archive
June 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 542
Michel Legrand & His Orchestra, Strings on Fire (1962) I’ve got a box of hand-me-down/inherited records I’m still going through. They’re mostly scratched or with torn (or missing) covers. But there are some gems. And some that play just fine – even if they look like they might not…and of course some that look just […]Archive
March 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 570
Quincy Jones And His Orchestra, Quincy Jones plays The Hip Hits (1963) The musical worlds of Quincy Jones – so big, so many, so huge, daunting. There’s Jones the player, the arranger, the bandleader, producer and then super-producer, he trialled hip-hop, he aced jazz, he’s a pop wizard; one of the legends of popular music […]Archive
June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman