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October 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around The World
Queen + Adam Lambert Live Around The World Hollywood Records It’s fair to say no one needs this live album by half of Queen and all of Adam Lambert. But there are probably a few psycho-fans that WANT it. So here it is. I enjoyed a Queen + Adam Lambert concert way more than I […]Archive
September 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Sitting Room Sessions: Margot Pierard & Wil Sargisson
This guy in Hawke’s Bay started this thing a while back called The Sitting Room Sessions – follow the page on Facebook. Check it out. House concerts, basically. Small gigs. Acoustic, primarily. A sitting audience. Waiting to be entertained, open to hearing anything, sure of quality due to the curation by their host. He’s trusted. […]Archive
August 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 272 – Litcrawl, Wellington, 2018
Litcrawl is Wellington’s coolest (best) literary event, a spectacular, jam-packed with ideas and showcases – and in 2018 I was lucky to be asked to be part of one of the events. Lucky. And shitting myself. Why not both? The event was called Lit-Sync For Your Life and it featured three readers – I was […]Archive
June 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 257 – The Gaps Between, Wellington, 2016
It’s funny with reviewing – how a new gig starts. Just suddenly out of nowhere. And stops in much the same way. I was a theatre reviewer for about a year or so for The Sunday Star Times. Happened on a whim. They needed someone. I was keen. I had reviewed some theatre for the […]Archive
May 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 251 – Rants In The Dark, 2018
Emily Writes wrote the book and then it was turned into the amazing play/show – and head of that 2019 run (and it went around the country to various spots – no luck this years, thanks Covid) it was trialed with a workshop-styled short season; they sought feedback and made a few changes. I got […]Archive
November 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 192: Joan As Police Woman
Welcome to episode 192 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. 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 […]Archive
May 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Luke Wright – Poet: Reading at Meow, Wellington, Monday, May 13, 2019
Verb Wellington is bringing poet Luke Wright to the capital city this coming Monday, May 13. I’ve just recently finished reading Luke Wright’s volume The Toll – and it contains six or seven of the very best poems I’ve ever read. Which is a phenomenal strike-rate. He has aspects of Stewart Lee and Roger McGough to his […]Archive
December 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Springsteen On Broadway: Film
Springsteen on Broadway Director: Thom Zimny Netflix Bruce Springsteen has been playing the role of Bruce Springsteen for far longer than he was ever actually “Bruce Springsteen”. Now, the same is true of a lot of the famous rock’n’rollers that grew up out of that era and firmly in public. Sir Paul of Macca is […]Archive
September 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 132 – Peter Black
Welcome to episode 132 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a conversation with Peter Black. He’s a Wellington-based photographer. I didn’t know him, until we had this conversation. But I knew his work. I’ve known his work for a while and it’s had a profound impact […]Archive
August 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs
Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]Archive
November 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman