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February 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 244 – NOT Randy Newman, Wellington, 2020
In a perfect world I was to be up now writing a review – no doubt a frothing, rave review – of Randy Newman. I’d bought a ticket – I’d bought two (one for my dad as a birthday present) and we were going to go and see Randy Newman; his first time ever visiting […]Archive
February 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 243 – Yawning Man, Wellington, 2020
First gig of 2020. And I forgot to write a review. That sounds lazy doesn’t it. I write the reviews just for this site, for me – and for you if you’re reading them. And school holidays proved quite tricky to be timely with content. It’s been hard enough getting back into writing album reviews […]Archive
December 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 242 – Michael Houstoun & The Rodger Fox Big Band, Wellington, 2015
An intriguing musical collaboration – and one that has worked so they’ve repeated it – and when I say repeated it, it’s always a little different. But the classically trained pianist and the big-band leader and trombonist really do find some strange alchemy – on record and in performance. I’ve seen them a few times […]Archive
November 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 241 – The Beat & The Selecter, Wellington, 2018
It was a double-bill, in fact they were taking turns to headline (a cool idea). I reckon The Selecter might have had the better energy all up but The Beat had more songs that resonated with this crowd; so Wellington was lucky to get that order – The Selecter first and The Beat second. Shit […]Archive
November 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 240 – Cuba Dupa, Wellington, 2015
Give me a name-tag and I’ll hide it. Lanyards. They go in my pocket. Backstage passes…even more cringe. And something with “VIP” on it. FUCK OFF! But – as you can see – I hold onto this shit. I keep the lanyards along with the ticket-stubs; I haven’t kept every single one, but a few […]Archive
November 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 239 – Blackcaps V England, Westpac Stadium, Wellington, 2019
I should really have this ticket framed – maybe put a picture of me next to it wearing a clown-suit. $64-fucking-dollars-and-60-fucking-cents for a Twenty20 match. Jesus. And Christ. And that was the cheapest option. The Family Zone, alcohol free – to pay the top price you’d get about three bucks back out of a hundy; […]Archive
November 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 238 – The Shot Band + Guests, Wellington, 2011
It’s hazy – but this was a 50th Birthday party I think. And there were a few local bands and solo acts and things and I missed a fair bit of it – but also I was on the bill. And my son, Oscar, was one week old I think. Or two weeks old max. […]Archive
October 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 237 – Star Wars A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO, Wellington, 2018
That’s right, it was the first Star Wars film aka Episode IV with the NZSO live in concert. You sat and watched the film on the big screen with a giant orchestra – our biggest and best-known covers band – playing the score live. There were moments. But I didn’t really like it. I was, […]Archive
October 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 236 – Demolition of the Century, Wellington, 2015
This was a good show – it was a spoken-word/theatre show by the writer Duncan Sarkies. And it featured live music (covers, originals and score) by Joe Blossom. I went along to review it – not sure quite how that happened, must have been asked along by Joe Blossom perhaps, or by Circa. But I […]Archive
October 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 235 – Hand To God, Wellington, 2017
Someone asked me the other day how I got into theatre reviewing and I couldn’t really answer it. Then I remembered it was as prosaic as a newspaper editor asking me to do it. They obviously knew I’d done a book review or two and some music and they asked me to do it. Writing […]Archive
September 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman