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March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Star Wars – A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO (March 11, Wgtn)
Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert – Movie w/ Live Score performed by NZSO (Conducted by Hamish McKeich) TSB Bank Arena Sunday, March 11 I was looking forward to this – the nostalgia of the original Star Wars film (episode IV: A New Hope) with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra performing John Williams’ full […]Archive
September 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Wilco: Schmilco
Wilco Schmilco Anti./Epitaph I had a wee hissy-fit the first couple of times I listened to this – Tweedy is out front and centre and almost all of the songs are acoustic-driven, so where’s the really great guitar of Nels Cline (I mean it is there but just not doing what I want it to […]Archive
November 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Andrew Paul Wood
Andrew Paul Wood is a Christchurch-based writer, cultural critic and freelance curator. He writes for The Press, the Listener, Urbis, Architecture New Zealand, and a host of others. Recent work includes a translation into English of the New Zealand poems of German-Jewish poet Karl Wolfskehl, Under New Stars: Poems from the New Zealand Exile (Holloway, 2012, edited by Friedrich Voit), and a […]Archive
November 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Peter Baillie
Peter Baillie is a small, slightly sticking cog in the wheels of government (a considerable distance from the loud, flashy bit that makes all the unpopular decisions). In his spare time, he MCs music events, plays in a couple of bands, and has almost finished recording what he thinks will be a very good album. […]Archive
August 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Samuel Walters
Samuel Walters lives in Sydney Australia. He is the saboteur of his own desires and dreams, here are five films that have stayed with him… 1 – Star Wars: It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships striking from a hidden base have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the […]Archive
November 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars
William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Ian Doescher Quirk Books The problem with Star Wars – to try to narrow it down to just one thing – is the extremists; that is to say people who take it far too seriously (Ronald Reagan) and those who don’t take it seriously enough (my stoned friends attended the premiere […]Archive
March 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1566
John Williams/LSO, Star Wars (1977) I never quite became the full Star Wars geek – and if I was ever close (I certainly loved the original trilogy as a kid, went to the second and third – or fifth and sixth if you must – at the cinema; when they re-released them I made sure […]Archive
June 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman