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November 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: Stir It Up – Aotearoa’s Tribute To Bob Marley
Various Artists: Stir It Up: Aotearoa’s Tribute to Bob Marley Universal Music NZ Ltd. We love a bit of Bob Marley down here in these shaky isles. Smear it on your toast. Rub it between your thighs. Slap it on a rainbow-coloured badge. Crunch it up between your teeth and spit out an inferior version. […]Archive
May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month
It’s always slightly depressing to me somehow – why we need one at all and who it’s for exactly. Growing up as a kid in the sixties most of the ‘homegrown’ music we heard was local cover versions of overseas artists songs – almost like a karaoke country or lamb dressed as mutton. There were […]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 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
TrinityRoots: Citizen
TrinityRoots Citizen TrinityRoots Look, I never quite got (into) the TrinityRoots sound – and remain largely happy about that. Here’s as close as I got to giving them a fair go, a piece I wrote about their original “reunion”. Since those three shows – after a five-year hiatus – a couple of different versions of […]Archive
July 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman