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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]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
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
May 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman