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December 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 243: Murray Cammick

Welcome to episode 243 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

Music Industry Legend Murray Cammick is the guest this week. Where to start with Murray…well we started by working out we’d only met very briefly a couple of times and we’d argued online about whether Bobby Womack still had it or not. Then we went right back to Murray first connecting with music – talked through his days at Rip It Up and founding Shake magazine too; from there to DJing, starting record labels, and his own photography – including his current exhibition which brought him to Wellington, here at Photospace Gallery. Read More »

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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello

Welcome to episode 242 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

Here I had a conversation with Jules Van Costello. He’s maybe best described as a ‘drinks professional’. He’s an author, blogger, distributor and winemaker. He’s had shares in restaurants, written books and columns and worked his way up through the hospitality industry. Read More »

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December 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 241: John Newton

Welcome to episode 241 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This week’s guest is John Newton. He is a writer and academic, a poet, literary biographer/historian, critic and songwriter.

John’s brand new book is a novel-in-verse, the very funny romp, Escape Path Lighting.

It’s been a busy last decade and a half for John, two poetry volumes, a book about James K. Baxter, the first volume of his planned three-book deep-dive into the history of 20th Century NZ literature. An album of his own songs, two bands and he’s currently in Dunedin serving out a Burns Fellowship. Read More »

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November 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 240: Lucy Roche

Welcome to episode 240 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This week’s episode is a conversation I had with comedian Lucy Roche. I didn’t know Lucy at all but I had seen some of her comedy online and attended a show where she was the headliner. So I reached out to her for a chat – and she was keen. And then it took a month or so to organize, as it often does. But we met up, fairly recently, and recorded this chat. Read More »

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November 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 239: Andrew Armitage (Aro Video)

Welcome to episode 239 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This week’s guest is Andrew Armitage, owner of Aro Video – one of the very last DVD and VHS rental stores standing and a legendary Wellington hang-out for film buffs. I’m lucky to live just up the road from Aro Video and for the last decade I’ve been a regular. I was a fan of the store and a visitor the decade before that too. When I arrived in Wellington in the mid-90s it was already the stuff of legend. Read More »

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November 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 238: Alec Bathgate

Welcome to episode 238 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This episode is my conversation with Alec Bathgate. He was in the band The Enemy – they basically became Toy Love and then on to the duo Toy Love. All three of those groups feature Alec and Chris Knox. So in this conversation with talk about all of those musical projects and Alec’s solo records. He’s also just recently released a brand new solo album, Phantom Dots. So the chat begins and ends with some mention of this new instrumental record and some of Alec’s musical projects that are happening now or on his mind. We also talk a lot about his musical relationship with Chris Knox – because of its endurance across four decades and because it has been curtailed due to Knox suffering a stroke. When I email-interviewed Alec many years ago he wasn’t in the mood to make music. Read More »

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November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 237: Jackson Nieuwland

Welcome to episode 237 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This week I talked with Jackson Nieuwland, poet and librarian and new bookstore owner, author of the book I AM A HUMAN BEING. Read More »

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October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 236: Claire Mabey (Verb Festival)

Welcome to episode 236 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library. Read More »

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October 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 235: Peter Rowley

Welcome to episode 235 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

Here I had a conversation with Peter Rowley. Read More »

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October 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 234: A Tribute To Eddie Van Halen (with Ben Fulton)

Welcome to episode 234 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This week we pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen. What a day it was, last Wednesday. I had just finished recording a future episode of this podcast when my friend Ben Fulton dropped by to talk about the Van Halen news. We decided to get on the microphones and talk about Eddie, his playing, the band, everything he meant to us and to so many musicians and music fans. Read More »

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October 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 233: The Death of Music Journalism

Welcome to episode 233 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

No guest this week. You’re stuck with me. I’ve just released my first book of poems. It’s called The Death of Music Journalism – and if you click on that link you’ll be taken to publisher site, The Cuba Press. There you can order the book. You can also order it from any good NZ bookstore, and many stores will already have copies. We are launching at Meow in Wellington, This Sunday, October 11 at 4pm. I’ll have readings from poets Rachel McAlpine and Freya Daly Sadgrove and music (and poetry) from Dr. Blue. The book will be launched by Pip Adam. Mary McCallum, my publisher, will speak. And I’ll speak. I’m going to MC the event and I’ll read a poem or three at the end. Sure. Read More »

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September 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 232: Darren Watson’s Getting Sober For The End Of The World

Welcome to episode 232 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys

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 in your Spotify library.

This is my third conversation with Darren Watson. We focus on his brand new album, Getting Sober For The End Of The World. In fact we go through it track by track, you’ll hear a snippet of each song – and some discussion of each song. The album is available to purchase from Bandcamp now. And you can click my link above to read my review of this fantastic record. Read More »

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