Welcome to episode 192 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.
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Welcome to episode 191 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 in your Spotify library.
And so here I finally got to sit and have a chat with Barnaby Weir. You know him no doubt from Fly My Pretties and The Black Seeds. I didn’t really know him very well at all – but we had met. A couple of times briefly and we’d had one very pleasant conversation that was not an interview. But I had asked him a couple of times about the podcast and he was receptive but it hadn’t ever quite worked out. Read More
Welcome to episode 190 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 in your Spotify library.
Cassandra Tse is the artistic director of Red Scare Theatre Company – this year the Wellington-based group has produced the wonderful Moodporn and The Aliens by Annie Baker – click those links to read my reviews; both stunning productions. Their third and final show for 2019 is Four Nights In The Green Barrow Pub which will show from 14-23 November at the Irish bar JJ Murphy & Co in Wellington. Read More
Welcome to episode 189 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.
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Claire Cowan is a composer, performer, arranger – she is also the leader of The Blackbird Ensemble which is currently touring its Bjork: All Is Full of Love show around a few NZ centres. Read More
Welcome to episode 188 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 in your Spotify library.
I have admired Simon Leary’s acting work over the last two or three years. He’s one of the new “new-breed stalwarts” at Circa Theatre in Wellington. I’ve seen him play warm and nice, funny, sad, despicable – he’s been the hero and the villain. I’ve seen him in the Christmas pantomime chewing scenery, spitting out ham. I’ve seen him singing, dancing, playing comedy and drama and linking several points between. I’ve seen him play it very straight. And I’m about to see him play it not straight at all.
I met him for the first time just a few weeks ago to have this chat. And found out, among many other things, why it was important to him to have the chance to not play it so straights, as it were.
Simon grew up in Timaru and is now based in Wellington. I really believe he is one of our finest theatre actors in the country right now. A remarkable talent.
So we met over a beer – and talked all about theatre: how he arrived as a working actor, how I got hooked (back) into reviewing it. We talked comedy and improv and learning lines and training and all the things you talk about with actors. It was great to meet him finally and to share some ideas and conversation.
Simon is about to star in COCK which opens at Circa in Wellington this weekend. So we talked all about that too. This Christmas season he not only stars in the pantomime – he is one of the show’s writers. So we talked all about that too.
I really enjoyed this conversation and it’s my hope that you do as well.
Here now is episode 188 of Sweetman Podcast – my chat with Simon Leary.
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Welcome to episode 187 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 in your Spotify library.
I had never met – nor ever interviewed Mark de Clive-Lowe so I was really keen to meet him and have this chat. We had a great first meeting and the evidence is all here. I’ ve been a fan of the music he’s made across the last two decades – and we talked about that but also about his upbringing, his family, his connection to Japan, including the many great jazz albums and concerts he was introduced to while living there – and from there to his stints in London and now Los Angeles. Read More
Welcome to episode 186 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 in your Spotify library.
Dean Chandler released his debut self-titled album back in 2003. He has a career away from music now – but still turns out to play some covers for fun (and sometimes money). However, in 2003 the self-titled debut album by this relative unknown featured contributions from Emmylou Harris, Larry Campbell, Norah Jones, Buddy Miller, various members of the Norah Jones band and was produced by Brady Blade. Read More
Welcome to episode 185 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 in your Spotify library.
Paula Penfold is, I think, one of New Zealand’s great investigative reporters – she’s worked as both a producer and a journalist, she’s been involved in broadcast both behind the scenes and in front of the microphone/camera (and now online) across TV, radio and is now part of the Stuff Circuit investigative broadcast unit. Read More
Welcome to episode 184 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 in your Spotify library.
Don McGlashan’s songs have been there through my whole life. I’m sure it’s the same for many of you. The various line-ups and styles from cabaret-pop and post-punk to movie soundtracks and radio singles; the ones you feel like nobody else knows, the ones that everyone has heard – they all blur in brilliance. Read More
Welcome to episode 183 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 in your Spotify library.
I had only met Nathan Haines one other time ahead of this conversation. We were in a bar a few years back. He was the main talent. I was the sideline guy playing some records between sets. We had a nice chat. I’d been a fan of Haines throughout his career and written – mostly favourably – about some of his albums and gigs. I’d enjoyed a lot of his music. And I enjoyed the chance to meet him and chat with him. We seemed to share some similar musical taste. Read More
Welcome to episode 181 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 in your Spotify library.
I first met Marek Peszynski nearly 20 years ago. We worked together for The CD Store chain. Marek became the manager of a dedicated vinyl store – Chelsea Records. He was also an influential DJ and tastemaker around town. Nowadays he is the Marketing Manager for Orchestra Wellington. He still DJs. He’s also an occasional tour promoter, a father and family man and a collector of records, sneakers, pop-cultural artefacts and pop-art. Read More
Welcome to episode 180 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 in your Spotify library.
Jerome Chandrahasen is a Wellington-based comedian (well, “The Hutt”). I had never met him before but I had seen him do comedy – at least once. He’s been a fixture on the local scene for over a decade, an MC at regular open-mic nights, having been the new boy once upon a time… Read More