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October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Joker: Film
Joker Director: Todd Phillips Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Films/Join Effort/Bron Creative/Village Roadshow Pictures There’s very little to unpack about Joker – unless you’re fascinated by the idea that a potentially compelling mental-health/system’s broken/America’s burning riff had to be hidden inside a comic book anti-hero/super-villain origin story. Anyone thinking that it’s a piece of Trojan Horse brilliance […]Archive
October 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love (October 17, Wellington)
The Blackbird Ensemble Performs Björk: All Is Full Of Love Shed 6, Wellington Thursday, October 17 Musical director Claire Cowan has been creating shows with her Blackbird Ensemble across the last decade – the music of Radiohead, Arvo Part and Bjork, other things too. Finally Wellington was allowed to see the ensemble’s best loved show […]Archive
October 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Live at Woodstock
Creedence Clearwater Revival Live at Woodstock Craft Recordings So the story goes, CCR was the first band to sign on the line to deliver a set at Woodstock. They were paid $10k for it (around $70,000 today, apparently) and then John Fogerty would not allow the band’s image to be represented in the documentary-film or […]Archive
October 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 189: Claire Cowan
Welcome to episode 189 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]Archive
October 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Scarlett Sabet: Catalyst
Scarlett Sabet Catalyst Jimmy Page Records / JimmyPage.com Ltd Of all the terrible things Jimmy Page has done – including, but not restricted to: wearing dragon pants, dating 14 year olds, allegedly a kidnapper, writing and playing The Crunge, interest in the occult, the Outrider album, being Robbie Williams’ neighbour and endless Zep reissues/repackaging – […]Archive
October 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Mike Love: 12 Sides of Summer
Mike Love 12 Sides of Summer BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Just what is a Mike Love? Is it the cold, prickly nasally lead singer of one of the best groups to ever make music? Is it the guy that provided many of their worst songs in the latter years? Is a Mike Love the […]Archive
October 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. George “Pops” Chambers
George Chambers bassist of The Chambers Brothers has died. He was 88. “Pops” was the oldest member of the group, a family band that featured four brothers (from 13 sibblings) and one outsider. The group is most famous for his psychedelic classic, The Time Has Come Today – the killer four minute single and whopping […]Archive
October 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 236 – Demolition of the Century, Wellington, 2015
This was a good show – it was a spoken-word/theatre show by the writer Duncan Sarkies. And it featured live music (covers, originals and score) by Joe Blossom. I went along to review it – not sure quite how that happened, must have been asked along by Joe Blossom perhaps, or by Circa. But I […]Archive
October 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Cock: Theatre
Cock Direction: Shane Bosher (written by Mike Bartlett) Circa Theatre; Circa One (October 12 – November 9) Cock is the story of two guys and a girl. John (Jack Buchanan), a gay man, isn’t so happy with ‘M’ (Simon Leary). He’s bossed around a bit and made to feel small, a bit thick. They break […]Archive
October 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Announcement: Violent Femmes to Play Two NZ Shows (March, 2020)
Plus1 proudly presents Milwaukee’s finest, Violent Femmes live in Auckland and Wellington in March performing so many of those songs we hold dear to their hearts. Grab your pals and get ready for classics like Blister In The Sun, Gone Daddy Gone, Kiss Off, Add it Up, American Music, Please Do Not Go & gems off new album Hotel Last Resort.Archive
October 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman