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March 25, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: The Day Harrison Died

When George Harrison died, I helped move a friend from her flat in Elizabeth St to her new place then in Tasman St. From Mt Vic to Mt Cook sounds like the title to a down-scaling book but this was just how it was back in 2001. We scrubbed the walls to get the smoke […]
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February 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 290 – Come Together: Abbey Road, Wellington, 2020

I wrote a review of this gig – and it was a nice surprise. I wasn’t sure they could pull it off. The world doesn’t really need any more Beatles tributes – but I say that, and I’ve been to several, so I was probably always going to go to this… And anyway, a good […]
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December 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

The Beatles – Get Back: Film

The Beatles: Get Back Director: Peter Jackson Walt Disney Studios / Apple Corps Ltd. WingNut Films / Disney+ Peter Jackson’s much-hyped dig into the vaults of the footage that already gave us the Let It Be film (whatever that was) and the Rooftop Concert, was released over American Thanksgiving weekend on the streaming service Disney […]
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November 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

That Terrible George Harrison Doco

I watched the Martin Scorsese documentary about George Harrison – it’s called Living in the Material World. I don’t get the fuss. It’s nearly four hours long. I sat and took it in one sitting. It felt like work. So many people had told me that it was good but was at least 45 minutes too long. Isn’t that […]
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October 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Happy, Happy Gig Memories

We can’t see (m)any gigs. We can’t have (m)any gatherings. Live music venues are taking a hit. It might all feel doom and gloom – and possibly with the good reason that it actually is rather dooming and very, very gloomy….but we have memories of the past, right? We’ve seen some shows. Some incredible gigs. […]
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October 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Those Early Musical Experiences That Stick

DD Smash. Napier. Marine Parade, Soundshell. 1984. I was at primary school. I loved DD Smash. Well, I liked them. Well, I knew that one song Outlook for Thursday. But more importantly, my brother liked DD Smash. And mum and dad did too. They didn’t like them enough to pay – so we sat outside on the concrete, with a […]
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June 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

All I Am Saying Is Give Yoko A Chance

Yoko Ono. She is nearly 90. She might not be with us for much longer. I don’t think we’ve really appreciated her as an artist in her own right, for her amazing talents – and in her role too as the love of John Lennon’s life. That’s important – when The Beatles broke up both […]
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March 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III – Run For Your Life

Ed Palermo Big Band The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run For Your Life Sky Cat / CD Baby The Ed Palermo Big Band is a proper big band – all the horns! – but they love nothing more than taking classic rock and pop tunes and making some hybrid/novelty work out of them. The […]
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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Features: The Beatles one by one…

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. It started late November in 2018. Jesse Mulligan asked me if […]
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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Come Together – Abbey Road (December 10, Wellington)

Come Together: Abbey Road Opera House Thursday, December 10 Last year some of New Zealand’s best known, much loved musicians banded together and delivered a concert replication of Neil Young’s Live Rust album/show – I went along slightly cynical. I left impressed with the effort – it showcased that wonderful music in the very best […]
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December 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Solo Career of John Lennon

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. But how to finish with John Lennon? Well there was the […]
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December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Dear Prudence,

My parents planned to name me Prudence if I was a girl. I wasn’t – so that is pretty much that. I hated the name – but loved the song; when I heard it was because my dad always loved that tune from The White Album it made more sense, or something like that. Now […]
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