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July 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 265 – C.K. Stead: Q&A, Wellington, 2018

The year 2018 was a good one for me and the writers/readers fest – I went to heaps of things, enjoyed them, wrote about them. Win/win/win. It was a whirlwind weekend but I was just fully on board with it – and C.K. Stead has never been one of my favourites. I get why he’s […]
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February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Wellington, 2016

When I rented Me And You And Everyone We Know back in 2005 I had no idea who Miranda July was – I was just renting a quirky indie film. But the writer, director and star of the film made an impression and a couple of years later I was buying her book of short […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Artist, Books, Festival, Film, Gig, Gig Review, Miranda July, NZ Festival, Q&A, Readers, Stubs, Stubs: # 246, Stubs: # 246 – Miranda July, Talk, Wellington, Writers ·

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July 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Q&A with Jan Hellriegel: Meow, Wellington, August 28, 2019

Jan Hellriegel will be performing in Wellington for the first time in 10 years this August. She’ll be at Meow on Wednesday, August 28 – singing songs from her brand new album and telling stories from her recently released book – as well as offering up back-catalogue classics.  And as part of the show she’ll be doing a Q&A that I’ll […]
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July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 229 – Nick Cave, Wellington, 2019 

I’ve now seen Nick Cave four times – in four different spaces with different line-ups. That’s as it should be – different shows, reflecting different times. But also the first show made me realise I liked him a lot more than I had realised. The second show was ho-hum really, even though it was not at all […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Lyrics, Nick Cave, Piano, Q&A, Review, RNZ, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 229, Stubs: # 229 – Nick Cave, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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January 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ: The Panel – Suffering Through Q and A’s

Usually when I’m on RNZ it’s to review albums – sometimes a concert or a feature. But last week I got to have a wee crack on the Panel (w/ Wallace Chapman). Seems my review of Nick Cave’s recent Q & A show struck either chords or nerves or both. And so I was asked on for a brief […]
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January 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Nick Cave (January 15, Wgtn)

Conversations with Nick Cave: An Evening of Talk & Music MFC Tuesday, January 15 It was almost to the day two years ago that Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds played in Wellington as part of the Skeleton Tree tour. It’s always a different show when you see Cave, he’s played in Wellington with truncated […]
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January 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 149: Simon and Nick at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival

Welcome to episode 149 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something different. Last year I was invited along to speak with Nick Bollinger at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. It was a lot of fun. Part of a magic weekend in fact. And with the permission of Nick […]
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October 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Even More Talking about Dancing about Architecture

This weekend just been, Saturday, October 20, I was invited to speak at the Cabana in Napier with Nick Bollinger and Jamie Macphail was our chairperson – part of the Hawke’s Bay Art Festival. The talk was music-writing, music-journalism, blogging, our histories, the role of criticism, how we went about it – and so on. […]
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May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

An Evening with Sam Cutler: Film Screening and Q&A

UPDATE: The Wellington show has now been cancelled due to low ticket sales. Sam Cutler was tour manager for The Rolling Stones during the tumultuous Altamont show that capped the 1969 tour. He was left to clean up the mess – and eventually wrote about it, along with so many other stories from his life […]
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March 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: Teju Cole – Blind Spot

Teju Cole: Blind Spot Circa One; Circa Theatre Saturday, March 10 This Writers & Readers session was Teju Cole in conversation with Paula Morris. Chiefly the discussion was about his excellent new book Blind Spot but from there Cole found his way to talking about his work in a more general sense, his motivations, his […]
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May 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

My Tony Levin Interview: Q&A

Tony Levin is perhaps best known for his work with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson but he has appeared on over 500 albums. He has worked with Lou Reed and our own Tim Finn; with James Taylor and Carly Simon. He even appears in Paul Simon’s cult film, One Trick Pony.   Over a series of emails I asked Levin some questions ahead of his 2010 visit to New […]
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November 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Interview: What It’s Really Like To Talk To The Famous Person On The Other End Of The Line

I always think, no matter how bad an interview goes at least I have never done this. And really, these days, with this thing you’re on – the internet – there is no excuse for that. It’s a funny thing, the music interview. Whenever I tell someone that I’ve scored an interview I get some […]
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