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February 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 56 – The Beach Boys, Napier, 1999

Look, Hawke’s Bay’s Mission Concert is a giant embarrassment – I’ve been a bunch of times (usually as occupational-hazard); been puked on, nearly been in fights – more times than at any other venue, in any other city – and it’s always the most ungrateful audience. They turn up with their golf-carts full of piss […]

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November 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Mission Concert 2014: Line-up Announced

Is this the worst line-up ever announced for The Mission? And the answer, of course, is yes. Proving the bottom of the barrel they scrape is, naturally, one filled with wine, this lot couldn’t care a jot for music – they’re so sure the brand will live on. And it probably will – it has […]