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May 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Remembering Faith No More At The Wellington Town Hall In 1993

Some concerts mean more than just the music eh… The best ones are the ones you remember for years after and for all the reasons – not just because it was a super great band at the height of their powers playing the songs from their very best album. I saw Faith No More for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1993, Best Gig, Faith No More, FNM, It Was The Best Gig Ever, Poem: Remembering Faith No More At The Wellington Town Hall In 1993, Remembering Faith No More At The Wellington Town Hall In 1993, Town Hall, Wellington ·

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March 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 17: The Cult, Wellington 1995

I still think about this show – a lot. It was great. It was The Cult. I love The Cult. I loved them about the most I ever did at the start of 1995. And more on that in a bit. But most of all this was an important gig because it was the first […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1995, BDO, Big Day Out, Billy Duffy, First Year, Ian Astbury, It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 17, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 17 The Cult, Pure Cult, The Cult, The Cult Live, Town Hall, University, Wellington, Wellington 1995, Wgtn ·

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November 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Announcement: Weyes Blood To Play Three NZ Shows (March, 2020)

Weyes Blood aka Natalie Laura Mering returns to New Zealand for three shows in March of next year. Her first appearance here in a couple of years, her first appearances out of Wellington and her first since the stunning 2019 album Titanic Rising (easily one of my picks for record of the year). Not only Weyes […]
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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 […]
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February 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #189 – Orchestra Wellington: Pounamu, Wellington, 2013

People tell you that you have preconceived ideas, they hold that against you – they have preconceived ideas about you of course, but can’t see that irony. You tell them I loved Pounamu – and yet I had hated the previous collaboration between Warren Maxwell and John Psathas. You tell them that Warren never sounded […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, Gig, Gig Review, John Psathas, Live Gig, Orchestra, Orchestra Wellington, Pounamu, Strings, Stubs: #189 – Orchestra Wellington: Pounamu, Town Hall, Trinity Roots, TrinityRoots, Warren Maxwell, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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August 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #134 – Mumford & Sons, Wellington, 2012

I’ve hopefully made my position clear regarding Mumford & Sons, just exactly where I stand on them (windpipe, preferably). But you know, banjos-chucked-in-a-tumble-dryer and all these guys can play. I went along to this – expecting the worst. Well, it was a Mumford & Sons show after all. And the worst was really the audience […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2012, Blog On The Tracks, Dominion Post, Gig, Gig Review, It Was The Worst, It Was The Worst # 8, Live, Mumford & Sons, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #134 – Mumford & Sons, The Worst, Town Hall, Wellington ·

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August 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #133 – Tinariwen, Wellington, 2012

It was a great gig – a pretty special gig. I had liked a lot of the music by Tinariwen, was first turned onto them by reading MOJO (I think it was). And this was an Arts Festival show; a mini-scandal was the fact that a couple of the members were unable to get visas. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2012, Alhousseini ag Abdoulahi, Arts Festival, Blog On The Tracks, Gig, Interview, Live, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #133 – Tinariwen, Tinariwen, Town Hall, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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July 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #106 – Death Cab For Cutie, Wellington, 2012

I couldn’t say I was ever a fan of Death Cab For Cutie but I was kinda into checking out this gig. I went along hoping to be blown away, there was a lot of buzz about it. You see they played here – only time they’ve ever played here – as part of the […]
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July 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #102 – Eru Dangerspiel, Wellington, 2010

This was an amazing show – I’ve been a fan of most of what Riki Gooch does in his various musical guises for quite some time and the grand scope of this – the big, widescreen presentation, a giant band on stage, packed with talent – was something not to be missed. But I nearly […]
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June 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #97 – Cat Power, Wellington, 2013

What the fuck is it with Cat Power – she makes it hard for you to like her. Saw her back a decade ago nearly, and she was hiding under the piano and scrambling to end songs or rather not end them, making a medley mash/hash of all of her songs as if to avoid […]
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May 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 73 – Together In Concert: Tim Finn Dave Dobbyn Bic Runga, Wellington, 2000

I’d been in the Town Hall a few times, for a few shows – but it was still a novelty. And such a great venue. So this was the first gig I can remember being a bit disappointed by in that venue. I guess I was buying into the myth and hoping for so much […]
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March 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 63 – Fleet Foxes, Wellington, 2012

Fleet Foxes – strange band. Saw them after that first album in a packed gig and it was pretty wonderful. One of those one-off things, you know you saw the band at the right time; they weren’t ever going to beat that. I couldn’t say I was ever a massive fan but, live, the harmonies […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2012, Dominion Post, Fleet Foxes, Gig Review, Live, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 63 – Fleet Foxes, Town Hall, Wellington ·
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