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January 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 117: fIREHOSE – “fROMOHIO”
Not only is this the first time I’ve heard it – it’s also the first fIREHOSE album I’ve ever heard. But I was always interested in the band. Because I’m fairly interested in what Mike Watt gets up to with music. I remember reading about fIREHOSE in the music mags and from there I checked […]Archive
December 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Parker Posey: You’re On An Airplane
You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir Parker Posey Blue Rider Press In the 1990s Parker Posey started appearing in movies; quirky films, funny films. She was savage or sexy or cheeky or some combination of those things – she was weird and wonderful, a little odd and a lot of wonderful. She was a […]Archive
May 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 160 The Rodent Guys
There was a big group of them and I think they all went to Onslow College together. This was 1980 and, as half of Negative Theatre, I was working at the art centre as a songwriter/performer. Jonathan Zwartz was there as well as a bass player and we became friends. He was part of the […]Archive
December 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Pavement: The Greatest Band of the 1990s
The 1990s had several big bands that staked a claim – obviously Nirvana even though they didn’t last longer than half the decade; obviously many people will want to say Pearl Jam because they started in the 1990s and released a few albums across that decade – and carried on from there. And Smashing Pumpkins […]Archive
October 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Dope: Film
Dope Director: Rick Famuyiwa Open Road Films Dope starts out by giving us the various definitions of the word, all slang – it’s a word for drugs, a name for an idiot, in the parlance of hip-hop it’s a form of credibility, a level of cool. And just like that multi-level definition the film Dope […]Archive
January 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: All Apologies – 90s Music
I signed off my “professional duties” in 2014 by playing a bunch of 90s songs down at the Old Bailey. Well, I’ve put most of them (Spotify doesn’t have a couple of them) into a playlist for you now – so if you want a long playlist that ticks the various boxes across trip-hop and […]Archive
December 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: The Old Bailey, All Apologies – 90s Music, Friday, December 19, 2014
It was all about the music of the 1990s from my final night at The Old Bailey this year – all 1990s, all night – which meant a bit of Mp3 top-up as well as vinyl. Hard to find the right groove with this one, starting at 5pm and then on through the night. Played […]Archive
December 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman