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August 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Suzanne Vega (August 8, Wgtn)
Suzanne Vega Opera House, Wellington Wednesday, August 8 For her New Zealand shows it was just Suzanne Vega and long-serving bassist Mike Visceglia. I say just because it was the full band that performed in Australia, at wonderful shows celebrating the respective 30th and 25th anniversaries of the Solitude Standing and 99.9F Degrees albums.Archive
July 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Suzanne Vega (July 28, Sydney)
Suzanne Vega Enmore Theatre, Newtown; Sydney, Australia Saturday, July 28 Suzanne Vega is celebrating the 30th and 25th anniversaries of, respectively, the albums Solitude Standing and 99.9Fd. Or as she explained cleverly at the start of the show, selections from the albums. No fear of a trick though, that meant most of each album – […]Archive
June 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Suzanne Vega to Play Two NZ Shows: August 2018
Anyone reading this will know I’m such a huge Suzanne Vega fan. So it’s huge news – to me anyway – that she is going to be playing two shows in New Zealand in August this year. I’ve already booked tickets to see her play in Australia in late-July. I’ll return home with the chance […]Archive
November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Laura Marling: Semper Femina
Laura Marling Semper Femina Sony Music Canada Inc. Laura Marling’s output is extraordinary – 27 years old, six albums to date, all of them great. Each one building on the one before it. No mistakes. No duds. And though the first three sit in a straight line (and that’s not a criticism) from there her […]Archive
April 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Songs of Her Life, Songs For My Life: The Great Songs of Suzanne Vega
I’ve been listening to Suzanne Vega since I was ten years old. The songs that everyone knows are Luka and Tom’s Diner. These songs have held up well – Luka might suffer from a very-1987 guitar sound but it’s an incredible piece of pop songwriting. A song about child abuse is one thing – a […]Archive
January 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 6 – Five Female Artists With Songs That Made Me Go ‘Wow’
Tonight I’m playing a bunch of records down at the San Fran – all female artists, mostly a 1980s set I reckon, but I have a few things that spill out either side, so we’ll see where the night goes… So in honour of that – and the amazing PJ Harvey show earlier this week […]Archive
October 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Suzanne Vega: Lover, Beloved – Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers
Suzanne Vega Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers Perpetual Sounds There’s something calming, soothing, reassuring about Suzanne Vega’s voice. That’s been the constant in a career of solid-to-brilliant albums where she’s diversified hugely from that initial “folk-revival” template. From the icy electric guitar treatments on her first album through the 80s-beatnik phase, […]Archive
May 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Some Late Night Junk
cars hiss by my window after 3 am Suzanne Vega again has the special stereo privileges and I’ve scored soul listening rights and it’s on these long, late, lonely nights with my empty coffee cup blues and eternal thoughts of what never was that I realize I’m lucky to push out anything that might resemble […]Archive
April 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Mel Parsons: Drylands
Mel Parsons Drylands M. Parsons Mel Parsons has always had the right approach and enough of the right sound. Tour, tour, tour, write, write, write – lovely voice and these soft, malleable song-shapes. All correct, present, accounted for – but there are so many people vying for that space, New Zealand seems/seemed to be running […]Archive
June 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Ruby Froom: Snow (ep)
Ruby Froom Snow (ep) (Independent/Bandcamp) Snow is a four-track EP by Ruby Froom – she’s the daughter of Mitchell Froom and Suzanne Vega. There’s just the slightest hint of the sort of musical phrase her mother might use on the opening Brilliance, but the song takes on the feel of a calmer, more (nicely) subdued […]Archive
February 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman