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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Patti Smith To Play Two NZ Shows (April 2020)

Patti Smith returns to New Zealand for the first time since she shared the bill with Bob Dylan. That was in 1998. Two years ago she announced Australian shows and I wrote a piece begging promoters to bring her to New Zealand. My call went unanswered by promoters but I received an email from Patti Smith inviting […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, April, Auckland, Christchurch, Horses, NZ, NZ Tour, Patti, Patti Smith, Smith, Tour, Tour Announcement: Patti Smith To Play Two NZ Shows (April 2020), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Brett Anderson: Coal Black Mornings

Coal Black Mornings Brett Anderson Little, Brown [This review originally appeared at The Spinoff] We are drawn, so often, to music memoirs for the clichés of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. The very best ones, however, ignore these tenets. Think Patti Smith’s Just Kids or Bob Dylan’s Chronicles. They also exist for both the mouth-breathing, moisty-palmed […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Bob Dylan, Book Review, Brett Anderson, Brett Anderson: Coal Black Mornings, Britpop, Chronicles, Coal Black Mornings, Damon Albarn, Dog Man Star, https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/05-04-2018/book-of-the-week-he-sells-heart-he-sells-meat/, Just Kids, Little Brown, Memoir, Night Thoughts, Patti Smith, Spinoff, Suede, The Spinoff, This review originally appeared at The Spinoff, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Gigs Of The Year: The Top 10 Gigs I Reviewed in 2017

Every year I see some great shows – and 2017 offered up plenty. There were loads of great shows I missed (Paul McCartney – though I saw him in 1993 at least) and others that someone else will tell you was the best where I thought it was fucking absurd (Future Islands). Still, all up, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bill Frisell, Comet Is Coming, James Taylor, Midnight Oil, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, Paul Kelly, PJ Harvey, Pseudo Echo, Steve Gunn, The Best Gigs Of The Year, The Best Gigs Of The Year: The Top 10 Gigs I Reviewed in 2017, The Top 10 Gigs I Reviewed in 2017 ·

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October 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 210 – Patti Smith, Melbourne, Australia 2017

When it was announced that Patti Smith would be playing Horses in its entirety I wanted to be there. No New Zealand show though. I found that out from Patti Smith herself. Surreal, huh? I wrote a short piece for my then daily-blogging fix, about how someone should bring Smith to NZ. I talked about […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2017), April, Aus, Australia, Australia 2017, Easter, Gig, Gig Review, Horses, Lenny Kaye, Live Music, Melbourne, Patti Smith, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 210 – Patti Smith ·

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October 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Always Starting, Never Ending

jesus, FUCK! – Alan Bennett is 83. I better get watching – and reading – his books, his TV, his films, scripts… Shit! There’s too much for me. (I’ve read some, seen some – but there’s much to revisit, and so much to try, to find, to hunt, to line up). A name gets mentioned, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actors, Alan Bennett, Always Starting, Always Starting Never Ending, Art, artists, Bob Dylan, Books, Clive James, Comedians, Comics, Film, Filmmakers, Garry Trudeau, Graphic Novels, Herbie Hancock, Joan Didion, Musicians, Never Ending, Norman Lear, Patti Smith, Peter Cook, Plays, Poem, Robert Crumb, Roger McGough, Theatre, Tracey Ullman, TV, Tyshawn Sorey, Woody Allen, Writers ·

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April 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Patti Smith (April 16, Melbourne)

Patti Smith and her Band perform ‘Horses’ Hamer Hall, Melbourne; Vic. Sunday, April 16 It was billed as Patti Smith’s last tour of Australia and it was also a run-through of the classic album, Horses. So expectations were high. It was palpable, the theatre filling up in the half-hour ahead of show-time, a reverence, and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Andy York, April 18, Australia, Bluesfest, Classic Album, Gig Review, Gig Review: Patti Smith, Gig Review: Patti Smith (April 16, Hamer Hall, Horses, Jay Dee Daugherty, Lenny Kaye, Live, Live Gig, Live Music, Melbourne, Patti Smith, Patti Smith and her Band perform ‘Horses’, Review, Sunday, Tony Shanahan, Victoria ·

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April 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Soundwalk Collective: Killer Road

Soundwalk Collective and Jesse Paris Smith feat. Patti Smith Killer Road Sacred Bones Records Here’s a genius movie in terms of collaboration – the perfect fit here as Soundwalk Collective (Simone Merli, Kamran Sadeghi and Stephan Carsneanski) chose the perfect subject to honour, the perfect way and the perfect person to help them realise this. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Jesse Paris Smith, Kamran Sadeghi, Killer Road, Lyrics, Nico, Patti Smith, Poem, Poems, Poetry, Sacred Bones Records, Simone Merli, Soundscape, Soundtrack, Soundwalk Collective, Soundwalk Collective and Jesse Paris Smith feat. Patti Smith, Soundwalk Collective: Killer Road, Spoken Word, Stephan Carsneanski, Tribute ·

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January 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 6 – Five Female Artists With Songs That Made Me Go ‘Wow’

Tonight I’m playing a bunch of records down at the San Fran – all female artists, mostly a 1980s set I reckon, but I have a few things that spill out either side, so we’ll see where the night goes… So in honour of that – and the amazing PJ Harvey show earlier this week […]
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January 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

John Cale: Leading From The Fringe

I was a fan of Lou Reed first; then The Velvet Underground and then John Cale. Truth be told – and I don’t mind admitting it a) I was young b) there was no internet then – for a while I thought John Cale and J.J. Cale was the same person. I was 12 years […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Avant-Garde, J.J. Cale, John Cale, John Cale: Leading From The Fringe, Leading From The Fringe, Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Producer, Punk, Songwriter, Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Velvet Underground, VU ·

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December 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

A Hard Reign: Patti Smith Proved The Right and Only Choice to Represent Bob Dylan

For all the talk of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize for Literature being polarising, being an outrage he was well deserving – a legend, a hero, quite outside and away from any Nobel Prize. But he really is the most important, most influential singer/songwriter – the guy who stood highest on the mountain with the brightest […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, A Hard Reign, A Hard Reign: Patti Smith Proved The Right and Only Choice to Represent Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Lyrics, Nobel Prize for Literature, Patti Smith ·

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June 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 866

V/A, New Wave (1977) I bet this was formative for a lot of people – one of those perfect/imperfect compilations that takes you into a whole new world. Well, it wasn’t for me. But the music on it – most of it – meant a whole lot to me. I just heard it in other […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1977, Compilation, Dead Boys, Little Bob Story, LP, New Wave, New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Punk, Ramones, Record, Skyhooks, Sonic Reducer, Talking Heads, The Boomtown Rats, The Damned, The Flamin' Groovies, The Runaways, The Vinyl Countdown # 866, V/A, Various, Various Artists, Vinyl ·

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February 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Mecca Normal: Empathy For The Evil

Mecca Normal Empathy For The Evil M’lady’s Records/Mecca Normal Canadian duo Mecca Normal have continued on over three decades releasing records that are all cut from their minimalist palette, clean – and then a bit fuzzy – guitar, best served in shards and a passionate spoken/sung punk polemic. It’s business-as-usual then, in a sense, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, David Lester, Empathy for the Evil, Jean Smith, Lenny Kaye, Mecca Normal, Patti Smith, Vancouver ·
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