Posts Tagged The Dead C

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July 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Dead C: Rare Ravers

The Dead C  Rare Ravers  Ba Da Bing Records  The bookending moments – to date – of hearing The Dead C and having them in my head have been circling as I listen to their latest, Rare Ravers. There I am back at uni, just introduced to the album The White House, a sort of audio-dare as much as anything. Flash […]

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January 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival (January 28, Akld)

St. Jerome’s Laneway Albert Park, Auckland Monday, January 28 It was my first time at the Laneway Festival since the very first time it hit Auckland. It’s been through some venue changes since then, logistics so often the issue – hot weather with no shade, no room for all the queues for food and the […]

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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gate: Saturday Night Fever

Gate Saturday Night Fever MIE Announced as Gate’s disco album – obviously riffing on the title – but that only means something if you’ve already entered through the Gate into Michael Morley’s world of hypnotic swirls of noise, guitar loops that duck, dive and drone and rhythms that become melodies only after they’ve pulverised your […]

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April 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Carter/Morley/Yeats: Two Gigs (Akld/Wgtn) April, 2016

Audio Foundation presents Carter/Morley/Yeats in Wellington and Auckland – late April, 2016. The incendiary trio of Shayne Carter, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats has been blowing minds over the last two years with their rare performances. First formed to play an impromptu set at a friend’s wedding, the band has recently played a bunch of […]

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January 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Glacial: On Jones Beach

Glacial On Jones Beach Three Lobed Recordings Funny, the tricks the mind plays – or where you allow the mind to go – when listening to free and improvised music; the melodies that find themselves and then find you in and around the noise, that dissonant wash, and then you attach your own memories, your […]

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October 20, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Great Kiwi Albums You Must Revisit: #6 The White House

A girl at university tells me one day she’s got an album she wants me to hear. So I go okay. I’ve got this massive CD collection. I’ve heard everything. I’m not sure that I ever thought like that but I’m damn sure people thought that of me. Anyway, I’m always intrigued when someone tells […]

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June 22, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1957

Gate, A Republic Of Sadness (2010) I review CDs for a few places, it’s what you do as a freelancer – and one of those places is New Zealand Musician. Sometimes I wonder why I bother – there are so many terrible albums released by no-hopers and the magazine isn’t exactly brutal; it tends to […]