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September 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 233– AC/DC, Wellington, 2015

I first got to see AC/DC in 2010 and it was good. Okay, it wasn’t AC/DC in 1977 or 1980 or even in 1991 – but it was my first chance to see the band. And it was great. Solid-af. I dug it. I didn’t really think it would be as good seeing them a […]

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October 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Eminem to play Wellington: One NZ Show Only

Eminem will grace our shores for a massive stadium show in New Zealand, performing for the very first time in Wellington at Westpac Stadium, on Saturday 2 March 2019, presented by TEG DAINTY. Eminem’s Rapture 2019 New Zealand: Saturday 2 March, Westpac Stadium, Wellington Tickets to Eminem’s Rapture Tour go on sale 10am on Tuesday […]

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January 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Foo Fighters & Weezer (January 27, Sydney)

Foo Fighters & Weezer ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park; Sydney, Australia Saturday, January 27 The Foo Fighters are a strange beast – they have been in existence some 22 years. Started, as a solo project by Dave Grohl, a dumping ground for demos he’d been building up in Nirvana’s final moments and then in the […]

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September 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: Two NZ Shows (Feb, 2017)

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will play two shows in New Zealand in February, 2017. On tour in Australia for a month-long stay the two NZ shows will see Springsteen and band perform in Christchurch at the AMI Stadium on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake, Feb 21 and […]

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December 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: AC/DC (December 12, Wgtn)

AC/DC Westpac Stadium Saturday, December 12 AC/DC last played Wellington’s Westpac Stadium nearly six years ago. Since then the band’s heart and soul, Malcolm Young, has been forced into retirement, and Kiwi-based drummer Phil Rudd is still in the sin-bin for partying too hard, and, well, illegally. So though there’s just the one album since […]