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September 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: September 2018
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 a couple of years into […]Archive
September 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Paris, Texas (September 17)
The Wellington Film Society showed Santi-Vina last week. This week it’s Paris, Texas. I’ve seen a lot of Wim Wenders films. I’ll watch almost anything that is scored by Ry Cooder. I love Harry Dean Stanton, and Dean Stockwell too for that matter. I’ve read plenty of Sam Shepard including his Motel Chronicles which was […]Archive
May 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 60: Earth, Wind & Fire – “That’s The Way Of The World”
There are some bands you know about, you like – maybe you’d even say you love them – but all you know is the Greatest Hits album, or the big singles. And for me Earth, Wind & Fire is a great example of this. I’ve known about them my whole life – I’m sure my […]Archive
June 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Garrett to appear at WORD Christchurch Event – Shifting Points of View: Sept 10 (2017)
WORD Christchurch is pleased to announce Peter Garrett: Big Blue Sky, as part of its Shifting Points of View series held in association with Christchurch Arts Festival. In between Midnight Oil’s two New Zealand concerts, the band’s charismatic frontman Peter Garrett makes a special intimate appearance on 10 September to talk about his creative and political life, […]Archive
May 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Nightwatchman
There he is at the crease, no runs on the board, but he won’t be ignored – as he aims for the middle and never heads too far down the pitch. He is always able, just, to dig it out from the block-hole, best foot forward, which is obviously right. He’s left with the bat, […]Archive
May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Ministry: NZ Tour (Sept 2017)
The mighty Ministry returns to New Zealand with two shows in September (Christchurch/Auckland). First time in New Zealand in over 20 years. Brutal and beautiful and so worth hearing and seeing. Dates and venues and ticket info all as below: MINISTRY: New Zealand 2017 Tour Dates Wednesday 20th September – Christchurch – The Foundry Friday 22nd September – Auckland – The […]Archive
October 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – September
Back in Wellington for the whole month after a couple of months of being in a few different places and on holiday and so on. Very much a head-down/bum-up sort of a month but most of the energy went to the podcast. That said I still found time to get in a few reviews, book […]Archive
June 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Writers on Mondays: July-September 2016
Once again the popular Writers on Mondays sessions by Victoria Univeristy’s International Institute of Modern Letters will take place at Wellington’s Te Papa Museum (Level 4, Te Marae) from 12.15-1.15pm on Mondays from July 11 to September 26. The sessions are free and will feature writers in conversation discussing upcoming and already published works. It’s […]Archive
June 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds: Two NZ Shows (September 2016)
Kid Congo Powers (b. Brian Tristan) has the very great claim to fame as founding memer of The Gun Club, and a musical tourist who stopped by in The Cramps and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds too. There are other musical projects – The Divine Horsemen, Die Haut and The Angels of Light. His […]Archive
October 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2015’s Album Reviews – September
A quiet month here in September, a few hosting issues didn’t help – but we’ve moved on, literally. A new host, and so far much better, faster… But I didn’t review a lot of albums in September. Still, lots of posts all up, plenty to look through so some of the gems might have got […]Archive
July 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman