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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
Samuel Scott to open Robert Forster’s Wellington Show: Thurs Nov 10 (2016)
To add to the excitement of what will surely be a great show – Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens playing a cabaret-styled set at Wellington’s San Fran next Thursday, November 10 – it’s just been announced that the opening act is Sam Scott of The Phoenix Foundation and Bunnies on Ponies. Samuel Scott has been […]Archive
July 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Blue Man Group (July 24, Las Vegas)
Blue Man Group Luxor, Las Vegas; NV Sunday, July 24 I first saw Blue Man Group in Las Vegas four years ago. I didn’t check out the recent New Zealand tour, but I was thinking about heading along. I figured there’d be a few changes, it might be worth seeing. There are several Blue Man […]Archive
March 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Win Tickets to Strung Out & Pears
Alright, a good game is a quick one – here’s a chance to win tickets to see Strung Out and Pears in Auckland tonight or Wellington tomorrow night. That’s right, the bands play Auckland tonight, Thursday, March 31 at The Kings Arms and Wellington’s San Fran, tomorrow, April 1. Both shows are “full album” gigs […]Archive
March 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers Week: Miranda July – Lost Child!
Miranda July: Lost Child! The Opera House Wednesday, March 9 When Miranda July was a young kid she wrote a book called Lost Child! She begins her Writers Week festival talk with slide-show images of the cover and reads a few pages from the book – she can’t read it all (“it was a trilogy”). […]Archive
March 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Win Tickets to Tami Neilson in Wellington (Friday, March 11, 2016)
This Friday, March 11, Tami Neilson & Her Hot Rockin’ Band of Rhythm! hits the stage of the San Fran for a show that has every chance of being spectacular. Why? Because, with both Dynamite! and Don’t Be Afraid Tami, and band, have released two kick-ass albums. And there’s been so many shows over the […]Archive
July 17, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Marc Ribot: One NZ Show (Aug 2015)
Marc Ribot is a guitar hero – if you love mangled sounds and inventive colours, from squeals and squalls to acoustic improvisation. He can do the Hendrix rock-out thing (in more of a Sonny Sharrock kind of way actually) or play jazz. He can do it all, sideman or out front on his own. He’s […]Archive
November 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman