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January 2, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Rob Simonsen: The Way Back (OST)
Rob Simonsen The Way Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Watertower Music The Way Back was an okay movie, an occasionally ‘good’ or at least thoughtful movie – but where it’s been heralded as a great sports drama, the real story was the one of addiction and attempts at redemption; not really a sports drama at […]Archive
December 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Patrick Melrose: DVD
Patrick Melrose Director: Edward Berger Madman This five-episode mini-series takes Edward St. Aubyn’s semi-autobiographical novels and devotes a single episode to each; the result, in truly mesmeric fashion, is one of the great catch-all TV shows in recent years. A present-day instant-classic. It’ simply a perfect, heart-breaking, hilarious, grizzly-grim depiction of addiction and the trauma […]Archive
September 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 81 – Taimi Allan (CEO, Changing Minds)
Welcome to episode 81 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. A friend suggested I talk to the CEO of Changing Minds – and I was up for that. I like conversations, I want to learn about people and share stories. I didn’t even know what Changing Minds was. But […]Archive
August 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 – Tamzin Beazley
Welcome to episode 76 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one arrives a day or two early – timing it with the film’s current run around the country as part of the Festival – a conversation with Tamzin Beazley; she is the wife of Booga Beazley from Head […]Archive
June 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
James Rhodes: Instrumental
Instrumental: A Memoir of Madness, Medication and Music James Rhodes Canongate Books James Rhodes has, in his professional career, never hidden the fact that there’s baggage, that his music, writing and documentary work is an outlet, a motivating force, a way of making sense of the world and of keeping him focussed yet with the […]Archive
May 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 20
The bloke in the photograph (below) with me is Terry, an old style hillbilly from Tennessee. Me and Terry shared a single-wide in a trailer park off the Calfkiller Road in Cookeville, Tennessee during the winter and spring of 1991. I was struggling to get ‘clean’ from narcotics at the time and going to lots […]Archive
September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman