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September 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: September 2020

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 four years into  it or so… For […]

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August 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh: Berlin

Clint Mansell and Clint Walsh Berlin Invada Records UK In 2014 Clint Mansell’s girlfriend died. He contacted his friend and fellow multi-instrumentalist Clint Walsh to help him recreate Lou Reed’s Berlin album. The idea came from Julian Barnes’ slim volume about grief. In that fabulous book Barnes lists the ‘lasts’ that he shared with his […]

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September 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Pop Will Eat Itself (September 9, Wgtn)

Pop Will Eat Itself Bodega Tuesday, September 9 Formed in the mid-1980s, England’s Pop Will Eat Itself pushed a version of indie-rock that stole ideas from almost every genre, hip-hop beats and rave-culture anthemic swells, the energy and attitude of punk, metal riffing and the big bass sound of reggae and post-punk. Impossible to classify, […]

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August 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Pop Will Eat Itself: NZ Tour (September 2014)

Pop Will Eat Itself will play two New Zealand shows in September – Tuesday, September 9 at Wellington’s Bodega and Wednesday, September 10 at Auckland’s Kings Arms. It’ll be the band’s first NZ shows in some 20 years. PWEI formed in 1986 and the band’s sample-driven industrial rock combined biting satirical lyrics and proved to be […]