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September 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Kristin Hersh: Nerve Endings – Selected Lyrics

Nerve Endings: Selected Lyrics Kristin Hersh Unbound Though I’m a sucker for a book of lyrics I usually read and discard – realising as I’m reading it that most lyrics deserve to hang in the air, are made for the stage more so than the page; it’s nice to check in with them, really ever […]
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May 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

A Salient Point: Gig-Going Is (Or Should Be) A Rush

I still remember my first gig. 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Salient Point, A Salient Point: Gig-Going Is (Or Should Be) A Rush, Dave Dobbyn, DD Smash, Gig, Gig Going, Gig-Going Is (Or Should Be) A Rush, Live Gig, Live Music, Throwing Muses, University ·

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March 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Post ‘Some’ Bills: The Gig Posters You’ve Saved…Or Wish You Had Saved…

I’m always intrigued to see a version of a gig poster available for sale at the gig – usually at a ridiculously high price. And then you see people with them, after or during; the poster scrunched up like the last bit of Christmas wrapping paper on the roll. A complete waste. I would never […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Bands, Connan Mockasin, Framed Poster, Keepsake, Memorabilia, Music, Paul Ubana Jones, Picture, Pictures, Pix, Post Some Bills, Post Some Bills: The Gig Posters You've Saved...Or Wish You Had Saved..., Poster, Prince Tui Teka, Ripped, Souvenir, The Gig Posters You've Saved...Or Wish You Had Saved..., Throwing Muses, Torn, Walls ·

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February 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums From 1995: The Year I Left Home

In 1995 I moved to Wellington, ostensibly for university, but in reality it was to start an enormous CD collection. Most of that collection has now been replaced by vinyl – and/or Mp3s. That’s because 1995 is closer is more than 20 years ago now. But at the time I was buying up music, having […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1995, Albums, Around The Next Dream, BBM, Carnival, CD, Five albums from 1995, Five albums from 1995: The Year I Left Home, Formative, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Going Home Again, Kristin Hersh, Leaving Home, Limbo, Maxinquaye, Natalie Merchant, Nostalgia, Prince, Records, Sam Hunt, The Gold Experience, The Year I Left Home, Throwing Muses, Tigerlilly, Tricky, University, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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June 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

50FOOTWAVE: Bath White (ep)

50FOOTWAVE Bath White ThrowingMusic One of the sad things in life is that we can’t have a new Throwing Muses album every year or so. Making up for that though is that there are Kristin Hersh solo albums (and books – and tours, sometimes combining readings/spoken-word and songs) and there are EPs by her other […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "Suck It, 50 Foot Wave, 50FOOTWAVE, Album Review, Bath White (ep), Bernard Georges, EP, Kristin Hersh, Rob Ahlers, Sky Motel, Throwing Muses, ThrowingMusic, University ·

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December 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Kristin Hersh: Don’t Suck, Don’t Die – Giving Up Vic Chesnutt

Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt Kristin Hersh University of Texas Press Well, after Rat Girl, I’d read anything by Kristin Hersh. And I was a fan of the incredible songwriting of Vic Chesnutt so this slim volume got the big tick as a concept, before it was even in my hands to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Don't Die, Don't Suck, Don't Suck Don't Die, Don't Suck Don't Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt, Giving up Vic Chesnutt, Indie, Kristin Hersh, Memoir, Paradoxical Undressing, Rat Girl, Singer/Songwriter, Throwing Muses, Vic Chesnutt ·

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September 1, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Kristin Hersh (August 28, Wgtn)

Kristin Hersh Bodega Thursday, August 28 Remarkably, Kristin Hersh’s songs – when stripped back to just her voice and guitar – seem to exist in their own space, so much so that the only way to describe it is to think of her as creating her own language within the tunes. The churn of the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2014, 50 Foot Wave, Acoustic, Bodega, Gig, Gig Review, Kristin Hersh, Live Gig, NZ, Paradoxical Undressing, Rat Girl, Reading, Solo, Throwing Muses, Thursday August 28, Wellington ·

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July 14, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Kristin Hersh: NZ Tour

Kristin Hersh will be performing her spoken-word/music show as part of Christchurch’s Word Festival. But the singer/songwriter and author will be hitting the stages of Wellington and Auckland for solo concerts also. It’s been 20 years since Hersh’s debut solo album, the wonderful Hips and Makers. Alongside another eight solo albums she’s made amazing music […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 50 Foot Wave, Auckland, August, Bodega, Kristin Hersh, NZ Tour, Paradoxical Undressing, Promo, Purgatory / Paradise, Q Theatre, Rat Girl, Singer/Songwriter, Solo, The Throwing Muses, Throwing Muses, Tour Announcement, Tour Promo, Wellington ·

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May 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Throwing Muses: Purgatory / Paradise

Throwing Muses Purgatory / Paradise Throwing Music It’s the first Throwing Muses album in a decade and Hersh and crew – here with the new model that Kristin has been working for her solo releases too, crowd-funded, lavish packaging, hundreds of names mentioned in the credits, essays and liner-note commentary, lyrics and extras beyond that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Kristin Hersh, Purgatory / Paradise, Throwing Muses, Throwing Music ·

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