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October 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bands With Fans I Hate: It’s Not Them…it’s THEM!
You can’t love everything. I’m not only dubious about and suspicious of people who claim to not hate any bands, I can’t value their idea of liking a band, if they like everything – or say that they do. I’ve always maintained the list of bands I love is longer than the list of bands […]Archive
August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 28 – Jeff Boyle of Jakob
Welcome to episode 28 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a conversation with Jeff Boyle, guitarist and sonic wizard behind Jakob. The Napier-based three-piece has been an entity – with the same line-up, the same three friends – for nearly 20 years. I spoke with Jeff the day after […]Archive
July 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Collapse.Rebuild: Fail Again, Fail Better
Collapse.Rebuild Fail Again, Fail Better Fluttery Records I’ll try anything I find from Fluttery Records, which is how I arrived at this, the debut album by Milan-based post-rockers, Collpase.Rebuild. It’s billed as an album – but it occupies the space of an EP, 25 minutes and just five tracks. Its brevity is both its strength […]Archive
October 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Jakob: What’s so funny about injured hands, dissolving labels and eight years between records?
Jakob is set to return – in just a couple of weeks – with its best album and a tour to follow. This would be news anyway – it is news. Jakob is one of New Zealand’s greatest bands, despite, still, being a hidden weapon of sorts, a secret – a special story: three guys […]Archive
May 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
No Broadcast: No Broadcast
No Broadcast No Broadcast (Independent/Bandcamp) In theory I shouldn’t like No Broadcast, there’s a lot of the traits and tropes I’m often disappointed by: ethereal intros that lead to almost nowhere, toms that sound throttled as opposed to tuned, bass guitar that’s played like rhythm guitar only, but that’s all just surface stuff. For all […]Archive
January 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 8: Melvins Opening For Tool, Wellington 2002
I don’t get a lot of gig-envy these days, I see enough things. You can’t see everything and you really wouldn’t want to – I wish I could un-see a lot of the frogs I’ve sat through all in the hope to hear Kiss by Prince. (And then when Prince did play somewhere near my […]Archive
October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Mountaineater: Mountaineater
Mountaineater Mountaineater Banished From The Universe Dunedin’s Mountaineater has a weight of expectation behind it, on top of it, all around it, some two years in the making – and finally we have the band’s debut self-titled full-length album. But Mountaineater arrived as a known quantity essentially, because this is the post-HDU project for singer […]Archive
August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman