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December 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2019

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… It’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, 2pm, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Aimee Mann, Album Reviews, An Enlarged Heart, Come On Up To The House, Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits, Hold On, Jesse Mulligan, Monuments to an Elegy, Music Reviews, November, November 2019, Radio, Radio NZ, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: November 2019, Spines, The Spines, Thursday, Tom Waits, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Bootleg Beatles (November 14, Wellington)

The Bootleg Beatles Opera House, Wellington Thursday, November 14 I’ve seen The Bootleg Beatles before – so they’re not the only repeat-offenders. They were very good. And I’m not (often) a fan of tribute acts. But a) it’s The Beatles. And b) this is a very good-natured, well-meaning, deftly executed tribute show. It’s about celebrating […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1960s, Abbey Road, George, Gig Review, Gig Review: The Bootleg Beatles, Gig Review: The Bootleg Beatles (November 14, History, John, Live Gig, Live Gig Review, November 14, Opera House, Paul, Ringo, The Beatles, The Bootleg Beatles, Thursday, Tribute, Tribute Act, UK, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love (October 17, Wellington)

The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love Shed 6, Wellington Thursday, October 17 Musical director Claire Cowan has been creating shows with her Blackbird Ensemble across the last decade – the music of Radiohead, Arvo Part and Bjork, other things too. Finally Wellington was allowed to see the ensemble’s best loved show […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, All Is Full Of Love, Anna Coddington, Bjork, Blackbird Ensemble, Claire Cowan, Gig Review, Gig Review: Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love (October 17, Live, Live Gig, Live Review, Mara TK, October 17, Priya Sami, Shed 6, Thursday, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Vinyl Tap: Open Deck Music Evenings in Wellington – Vinyl Tap 1 (Thurs, September 19)

Tonight, Thursday September 19, is the first “Vinyl Tap” session at The Ascot Bar in Wellington. It’s open deck DJ sessions – you turn up, you bring some records and you get allocated a slot to play some of your favourite tunes. Twenty-minute spots. Play four or five tunes, I guess. That sort of thing. Auckland […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Ascot, DJ, DJ Set/s, LP, Open Deck Music Evenings in Wellington, Records, Rooftop Bar, September 19, The Ascot, Thursday, Vinyl, Vinyl Tap, Vinyl Tap: Open Deck Music Evenings in Wellington - Vinyl Tap 1, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Pre-Panel: The Story of the Day (Sept 11, 12, 13)

Last week I had my first go on the Pre-Panel on RNZ. Well, actually I had my first three goes… The Panel runs from 4-5pm but at 3.45pm they have the “Pre-Panel” where Wallace Chapman introduces the guests and the question of the day and they get a producer or a guest (or whatever) to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged #11, 12", 13, Auckland, Friday, Friday 13th, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, RNZ Pre-Panel: The Story of the Day (Sept 11, September, Taylor Swift, The Panel, The Pre-Panel, The Story of the Day, Thursday, U2, Wallace Chapman, Wednesday, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Fleetwood Mac (September 12, Akld)

Fleetwood Mac Spark Arena, Auckland Thursday, September 12 I was so into this – and very nervous. I’m a mega Fleetwood Mac fan, I love all periods of the band, all versions. But it’s ten years since I last saw them (back when Lindsey Buckingham was still front and centre) and I just had to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Akld, Auckland, Christine McVie, Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac, FM, Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Fleetwood Mac, John McVie, Live Gig, Live Music, Mac, Mick Fleetwood, Mike Campbell, Neil Finn, Reunion, September 12, Spark Arena, Stevie Nicks, Thursday, World Tour, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio (August 8, Wgtn)

Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio: Secrets & Hidden Messages  MFC  Thursday, August 8  This Chamber Music NZ concert featured touring American violist Jennifer Stumm with local musicians Inbal Megiddo (cello), Jian Liu (piano) and Martin Riseley (violin): Te Koki Trio.  The opening piece was just for the trio, a Chamber Music-commission by local composer Michael Williams. Over a see-sawing frenzy of violin the piano provided […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Amy Schumer, August 8, Brahms, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music New Zealand, Chamber Music NZ, Chamber Music Society, Classical, Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 18 - Mike D (Michael Diamond), Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio (August 8, Inbal Megiddo, Instrumental, Jennifer Stumm, Jennifer Stumm & Te Koki Trio, Jian Liu, Live Gig, Live Music, Martin Risely, MFC, Quartet, Secrets & Hidden Messages, Te Koki Trio, Thursday, Viola, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: STROMA – Voices of the World (August 1, Wgtn)

Stroma: Voices of The World  Hannah Playhouse  Thursday August 1 In a wide-ranging program that sought to show connections and cross-pollinations between cultures, between the scored notes of music and the more off-the-cuff field recordings of human and animal voices, of natural sounds (rainfall), once again the Wellington-based Stroma collective hit it out of the park. This […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 'Bouyi' from Yunnan, A Wonderful Day, Al Fraser, Alistair Fraser, An overture, Anna Clyne, August 1, Beethoven, Bianca Andrew, Bridget Douglas, Celeste Oram, Downstage, Folk Songs, Gig Review, Hamish McKeich, Hannah Playhouse, Irirangi (Meditation), Jack Body, John Psathas, Julia Wolfe, Keir Gogwilt, Live Gig, Live Music, Luciano Berio, NZ, Reeling, Rob Thorne, Stroma, Thursday, Voices of the World, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: July 2019

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, 2pm, Afternoons, Album Reviews, Atlanta Millionaires Club, CD, Faye Webster, Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Club, Fyah, https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018702641/music-critic-simon-sweetman, Jesse Mulligan, July, July 2019, Radio, Radio NZ, Radio Reviews, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: July 2019, Theon Cross, Theon Cross: Fyah, Thursday, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Preview: Bob Log III with Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 (Wgtn, May 9, 2019)

Tomorrow night I’m looking forward to seeing the legendary Bob Log III he’s on a tour of New Zealand with Labretta Suede & The Motel 6 and tomorrow night, Thursday, May 9, finds them in Wellington at Valhalla. I’ve been a fan of Mr. Log since I first heard his albums Trike and Log Bomb. That was in the early […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2019, Bob Log, Bob Log III, Gig Preview, Labretta Suede, Labretta Suede & The Motel 6, Live Gig, Live Music, Log Bomb, May 9, Music, The Motel 6, Thursday, Trike, Valhalla, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Living Colour (December 13; Wgtn)

Living Colour San Fran Thursday, December 13 Living Colour formed in New York in the mid-80s and across the late-1980s and into the mid-1990s they achieved their biggest fame with an impressive run of albums that started in 1988 with debut, Vivid and rolled through 1990’s Time’s Up and 1993’s Stain. From there thee was […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2018), 30th Anniversary, Corey Glover, December 13, Doug Wimbish, Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Living Colour, Gig Review: Living Colour (December 13; Wgtn), Live, Live Gig, Living Colour, NYC, San Fran, Shade, Stain, Thursday, Time's Up, Vernon Reid, Vivid, Will Calhoun, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO (March 15, Wgtn)

Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO MFC Thursday, March 15 Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the great operatic singers of her generation. A master. Such lightness – but strength. There’s a great joy she conveys, in the very act and art of singing. And of course she’s capable of the full range of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged "Singer", 2018), Alexander Zemlinksy, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO, Aria, Benjamin Northey, Classical, Gig Review, Gig Review: Anne Sofie von Otter w/ NZSO (March 15, Live, March 15, MFC, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZSO, Opera, Orchestra, Schubert, The Mermaid, Thursday, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·
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