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August 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 271 – Switzerland, Wellington, 2018
Funny, I was just reminiscing about the play Songs For Nobodies and how great the writing of Joanna Murray-Smith was but actually the first things I saw by Smith was this play, Switzerland. I didn’t like it. And it was the writing that really let it down for me. The acting was superb – two […]Archive
July 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 18: John Fogerty, Wellington 2005
All my life I have loved CCR. I can’t remember first hearing them, nor making a decision to listen to them more – it was just music that filled my brain and my soul from when I first heard it. To begin with it was some version of the greatest hits – a tape in […]Archive
July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: July 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 […]Archive
July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 219: Colin Morris
Welcome to episode 219 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]Archive
May 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 248 – Suzanne Vega, Sydney, 2018
One of the very reasons I got into writing about music was Suzanne Vega – just a lifelong fan of her work and I remember saying to a friend, way back, that I wish there was an opportunity to write about her, like an essay or something (this was before there was anything much in […]Archive
April 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 26 – My Dick, “My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release”
My Dick, My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release, 2012 I guess it was doing the rounds of some music blogs at the time – but it was summer and it felt like the right time indeed. I was taking a rare break from my daily music blogging of the time and so wasn’t desperately looking for […]Archive
April 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Bobbie Brown: Cherry on Top – Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k
Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k Bobbie Brown w/ Caroline Ryder Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book I’m a sucker for groupie-books – it started with Pamela Des Barres I guess. And this is the second book by Bobbie Brown and the second book by Bobbie Brown that I’ve read. Ridiculous.Archive
November 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Kindergarten Teacher: DVD
The Kindergarten Teacher Director: Sara Colanelo Madman Sara Colanelo’s remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name seemed to generate nothing but positive praise for Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead as a 40-ish kindergarten teacher stuck in a unsatisfying marriage, with grown children and searching for something. She finds it in one of […]Archive
October 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 237 – Star Wars A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO, Wellington, 2018
That’s right, it was the first Star Wars film aka Episode IV with the NZSO live in concert. You sat and watched the film on the big screen with a giant orchestra – our biggest and best-known covers band – playing the score live. There were moments. But I didn’t really like it. I was, […]Archive
October 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 235 – Hand To God, Wellington, 2017
Someone asked me the other day how I got into theatre reviewing and I couldn’t really answer it. Then I remembered it was as prosaic as a newspaper editor asking me to do it. They obviously knew I’d done a book review or two and some music and they asked me to do it. Writing […]Archive
September 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman