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November 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Reb Fountain (November 1, Wellington)

Reb Fountain San Fran, Wellington Sunday, November 1 Reb Fountain sold out the Wellington show of her nationwide album-release tour so she was back the next night in a different venue. Awesome work here – by the venues and the band, giving the music to more people, agreeing to share the load, and obviously fit […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Circa, Circa Theatre, Gig, Play, Sebastian Morgan-Lynch, Show, Stub, Stubs, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 257, Stubs: # 257 – The Gaps Between, The Gaps Between, Theatre, Theatre Review, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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