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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
Stubs: # 220 – A Musical Menagerie, Wellington, 2018
I wonder why they continue on with these shows…I mean, it can’t be fun for the performers, it’s not fun for the audience – it’s a fucking ordeal. I’m talking, in this instance of A Musical Menagerie – a show featuring our NZSO with Chris Lam Sam as the narrator/MC. The aim was to present […]Archive
March 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 219 – Lungs, Wellington, 2016
The play Lungs was terrific – click there to read my review. Perfect small theatre, in the Circa Studio, a two-hander, unnamed couple, “She” and “He” I believe the notes said, or “Him” and “Her” or some such. I was there on opening night. I don’t often go to opening night. I find the rattling […]Archive
February 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 218 – L’Orchestre D’Hommes Performs Tom Waits, Wellington, 2016
It’s Arts Festival time – last night I went to my first show of the 2018 festival, and I think this (click there for the full review from the time) was possibly the last thing I saw at the previous festival; maybe second-to-last… I was sitting there last night cursing the wind that was impacting […]Archive
January 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 16: John Cale, Auckland 2007
Sometimes you just have to be there. You have to get along. To see the legend. Someone that has meant a lot to you – their music, their place in it, and in your life as a result. It doesn’t have to be a mind-blowing gig to make an impact; the real impact is when […]Archive
December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 217 – Verlaines, Wellington, 2016
Shit this was good. I mean great. I mean really fucking good. Cos for some reason I kinda wasn’t expecting it to be. I love the Verlaines, sure. But I’d seen The Chills the night previous (this was billed as “The Dunedin Double” – though it was arbitrary, no anniversary or anything…) and I just […]Archive
December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman