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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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… […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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