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July 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 230 – Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2019
It took until 2019 for me to visit Waiheke Island. For some odd reason I’ve kept the ferry ticket stub…hang on, I say some odd reason…what I mean was: This was an amazing holiday! My brother owns a house on the island – and finally we organised the time to go there, which meant flying […]Archive
July 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 229 – Nick Cave, Wellington, 2019
I’ve now seen Nick Cave four times – in four different spaces with different line-ups. That’s as it should be – different shows, reflecting different times. But also the first show made me realise I liked him a lot more than I had realised. The second show was ho-hum really, even though it was not at all […]Archive
July 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 228 – Bob Dylan, Auckland, 2018
There was just an urge. An absolute urge. I had to see Bob Dylan again. I’d seen him three times – but not for years. In fact it was 20 years since my first time seeing him and at least a decade since my last… But I had never travelled to see him – and I just got the […]Archive
July 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 227 – David Byrne, Wellington, 2018
David Byrne – big fan! Love the solo stuff, and of course the Talking Heads work, the collaborations, all of it. Have seen him one other time and it was very good but was very keen to get to this. And then it didn’t seem likely. Sold out. And I’d missed the window. Oh well. I could hang on to […]Archive
May 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 226 – Snarky Puppy, Wellington, 2019
Something clever happened here – Snarky Puppy sold a version of jazz to an audience of hipster-indie fans and boofheads (and some genuine jazzers too I guess…) and I wanted to know a bit more about that, having only heard some of their recordings and having missed their previous visits to the country. It blows me away they can sell so […]Archive
May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 225 – Madeleine Peyroux, Wellington, 2014
I’d seen Madeleine Peyroux one other time (part of a triple bill with Melody Gardot and Diana Krall; Peyroux was the star) and in the build up to this gig, a Festival show, I interviewed her, a really pleasant surpise – because I hadn’t expected Peyroux to be chatty. I have no idea why, beyond the back-story of her taking time out between her first couple of albums, disappearing […]Archive
April 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 224 – Cigna Saints, Wellington, 2019
I had a really great chat with a Facebook friend the other day. We had never met. But he recognised me and got chatting about things I’d written and from there we had a huge conversation about the arts and culture and content and contributing and how being an audience member, a consumer, is part of the […]Archive
March 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 223 – Alejandro Escovedo, Wellington, 2019
I don’t usually write about a show for Stubs the same year that it happens – but I’m doing this here now with Alejandro Escovedo in place of an actual review. I didn’t review the show – but I did love it. I chose not to review it because I didn’t make it there at the start, didn’t see the whole […]Archive
February 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 222 – Foo Fighters, Sydney, 2018
It wasn’t that I was desperate to see the Foo Fighters again – although I was curious (call it a perverse ‘professional curiosity’ if you like…) I saw the Foos when they had only just formed and were rather good. I saw them again, two albums later, as part of a Big Day Out. And they were quite shit. […]Archive
October 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 221 – Faith No More, Wellington, 1995
When I first saw Faith No More in Wellington (1993) it was (and still is) one of the greatest gigs I’ve seen. And when Faith No More released its new album in 1995, King For A Day – Fool For A Lifetime, I was amped; anticipating the album and very excited to find they’d be […]Archive
April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman