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May 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Whistling
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. This topic was Whistling – songs with whistling; what is it about whistling in a song? Is it happy, sad, both? Is it joyous and infectious […]Archive
May 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Comedy Festival: Rhian Wood-Hill (Cavern Club, Wgtn)
Rhian Wood-Hill: Rhian Vested Cavern Club Tuesday May 8 – Saturday May 12 (7.00pm) Like a lot of fresh Kiwi comics Rhian Wood-Hill appears, for most of his set, to be delivering a ramshackle-endearing, but largely unfunny and overly long, amateur TEDTalk. It’s so awkward as to be almost excruciating – there’s no timing to […]Archive
March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Music Feuds
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. The topic was Music Feuds – and so I discussed The Beatles/Yoko Ono, Simon & Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye’s divorce from Anna Gordy […]Archive
March 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio (March 13, Wgtn)
Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Aaron Diehl Trio MFC Tuesday, March 13 This was always likely to be one of the festival highlights – Miami-born, New York-based jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and backing band The Aaron Diehl Trio.Archive
March 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Staves (March 4, Wgtn)
The Staves The Festival Club Sunday, March 4 British sisters Emily, Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor record and tour as The Staves, this Festival performance was their first Wellington appearance. They’re back in the tent for a second and final showing in the capital this Tuesday, March 6. From heavenly harmonies, and through clever looping of […]Archive
February 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Arabia-Buda-Scott (February 27, Wgtn)
Arabia-Buda-Scott The Festival Club Tuesday February 27 Lawrence Arabia (James Milne) here combined with the songwriters from The Phoenix Foundation (Luke Buda and Sam Scott) for an evening of songs from across their catalogues. This included material from the Fabulous/Arabia side-project, Sam Scott’s Bunnies on Ponies band and several new, as yet unreleased, Phoenix Foundation […]Archive
January 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (January 17, Wgtn)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds TSB Bank Arena Tuesday, January 17 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ return to Wellington is just the third show of the brand new tour, the first dates in a couple of years, the first since the release of Skeleton Tree, the first since the death of Cave’s son […]Archive
March 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Chills (March 8, Wgtn)
The Chills Shed 6 Tuesday, March 8 In 1982 The Dunedin Double was released, a double EP featuring the music of four Flying Nun groups, this year’s festival is celebrating that landmark recording with two of the bands from that compilation appearing across two evenings. First up, The Chills. Martin Phillipps, with a breathy voice […]Archive
December 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: Slices of Heaven – Kiwi Music DJ Set, San Fran, Tuesday, December 29
I love Wellington all year round – but I really love Wellington in that little space between Christmas and New Year’s (actually for most of January, even). The stuffiness of the city goes on holiday, Lambton end is all but shut-down, the office-workers plan their holiday for the year and the rest of the city’s […]Archive
December 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Slices of Heaven – Kiwi Music: DJ Set
Every summer – in that great spot between Christmas and New Year’s (the anxiety is low, so, frankly are the expectations, everyone’s finally relaxed, or relaxing…) I play a wee set of Kiwi music, my favourite songs and pieces by New Zealand artists. Here’s a playlist from a previous year’s attempt. It’s good fun. The […]Archive
September 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman