Welcome to episode 113 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I met Lisa Harrow in the green room at Circa Theatre. She is acting royalty. I couldn’t believe my luck – that she had agreed to a long conversation for the podcast. Well, then, as soon as I met […]
When I was young I liked Cyndi Lauper. Well, I liked some of the songs when they appeared on the radio. I liked She-Bop; I can remember it going round and round on a C-90 cassette tape that I was given along with my first tape-player (after my parents’ first overseas trip). The C-90 was bunged in […]
I was thinking about how one time we couldn’t afford the bills in the flat – a guy had drawn up a charter, he’d even used the word “vestiges” – there was a flat-meeting because I was dragging the chain. the power was going to be disconnected, the internet, in its infancy, would no longer […]
Just. Couldn’t. Give. A. Fuck. About Bad Company. Never cared. Still don’t. Listened to this – because it’s a challenge. And feel the same way about them (still) as I do bands like Cheap Trick, Rush, Heart and Grand Funk Railroad. (Not comparing any of them as soundalikes of each other). Just bizarre to think […]
There I was in the car on a Friday night, wondering when the right time was to enter the Te Rauparaha Arena to see The Original Wailers (conclusion: I’m not sure there was a right time) and I was chatting with my friend (who I will refer to here as Nik; because I always have before). We were talking about Tricky […]
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]
UB40, Signing Off (1980) My dad played tapes in the car a lot when we were young – UB40 was a big deal. And he had this album – and, later, The Greatest Hits one – (I think that was my brother’s, but the whole family got a kick out of it, sure). I loved […]
I was sad to hear of the passing of Bob Dorough – I mean, amazing life: richly rewarding, a quiet achiever and he made it to 94, that’s never to be sniffed at – but I wanted to mark the passing in at least some small way because Bob Dorough was kinda a big deal […]
Coal Black Mornings Brett Anderson Little, Brown [This review originally appeared at The Spinoff] We are drawn, so often, to music memoirs for the clichés of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. The very best ones, however, ignore these tenets. Think Patti Smith’s Just Kids or Bob Dylan’s Chronicles. They also exist for both the mouth-breathing, moisty-palmed […]
we used to have this joke in our family about who had showered – and who hadn’t – weird joke? well, weirder still, it’s still going… and no one knows the answer. well, we all do, actually, including the one who is lying. but isn’t it fascinating – when with family – when reduced to […]
Kacy & Clayton The Siren’s Song New West Records They’re Canadian. They’re second cousins. They’ve played music together across the last decade as the formal duo Kacy & Clayton – ahead of that they grew up honing their craft and it’s a timeless country/folk/roots amalgam that here, on their fourth full-lengther is fleshed out further […]
It was where we got our name from in the first place The Spines very first gig We’d been unable to decide from a long list of terrible attempts It was a packed University hall at lunchtime orientation Malcom McSporran was going to introduce us and he asked me what we were called I looked […]
