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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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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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February 23, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Questions/Answers

Someone posted a review I did of their album and said, “he liked it – LOL –  and it’s not even dad rock”. Later on, down that same thread I was called a transphobic cock (For something I said, or perhaps something I didn’t). I wonder what I’d have been called if I hadn’t bothered […]
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October 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Cisco Quiz: Thursdays at San Fran

It’s time for a new quiz – based loosely around the popular Mighty quiz with fun, irreverent, easy, hard and soft categories. There’ll be a music focus (and in fact I’m going to contribute some music questions to this Cisco Quiz at Wellington’s San Fran, Thursday nights, starting Thursday, October 22. Register teams at ciscoquizz@gmail.com […]
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