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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
March 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Thundercat (March 1, Wgtn)
Thundercat The Festival Club Thursday, March 1 Two years ago, almost to the day, Thundercat came and saw and conquered Wellington and I was profoundly unmoved. I love the guy’s playing – and credits (outside of his own work he’s helped to make Flying Lotus, Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington great, and that’s just for […]Archive
January 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Selecter & The Beat (January 25; Wgtn)
The Selecter & The Beat Opera House Thursday, January 25 Two tones of 2-tone bands on the one bill and it seems The Beat and The Selecter take it in turns to headline; Pauline Black bounds onto the stage, her energy palpable instantly. It’s The Selecter’s turn to start the night, it’s hot and the […]Archive
March 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bonobo To Perform One NZ Show: Auckland (July 2017)
Niche, Paint It Gold and George FM present BONOBO Simon Green – who records and performs as Bonobo – will play one show in New Zealand at Auckland’s Town Hall, Thursday, July 27. He was last in Auckland a couple of years ago for a DJ set but this will be a performance with the […]Archive
December 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: The Great Kiwi BBQ, San Fran, Thursday, December 29, 2016
Well, we do this every year or two – The Great Kiwi BBQ – I take some records down to the San Fran, all Kiwi music from all sorts of eras, fads, trends – and I play them in whatever order I feel like. And so it was last night, a good night and a […]Archive
December 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Great Kiwi BBQ: DJ Set
I love this time of year – and I particularly love this time of year in Wellington. It’s quiet. And you can get a park anywhere, and no one is in a rush. In fact it’s almost a ghost-town, in the best possible way… Most years around this time I put on a Great Kiwi […]Archive
December 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: On A Thursday Night
Just the other week I played a few songs in and around sets by the Spines and Terror of the Deep. It was a fun night, a great gig and I looked back at that setlist of tunes I rolled out and figured it would make an okay playlist. Maybe a really good playlist… Click […]Archive
December 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 139 The Bodge
I’ve got this foot pedal called Dr. Overlord and it has a mind of its own It’s very old and wont take batteries – you have to plug it into the wall but it has a valve in it The trick is to let it warm up for a good while and then it starts […]Archive
December 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: Bodega, Spines w/ Terror of the Deep, Thursday, December 1, 2016
The gig was Spines with Terror of the Deep at Bodega and I was just glad to be there. But asked, too, to play some records before and between and after. Great sets from both bands – really great sets. And here are the sets I squeezed out, playing records by other people: some of […]Archive
November 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman