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December 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Music of Billie Holiday

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular musical artist or genre or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. For my final time at the wheel this year I chose to talk about Billie Holiday. She’s never far from my mind, that voice. And the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Addiction, Afternoons, BILLIE, Billie Holiday, Holiday, Jazz, Jesse Mulligan, Karyn Hay, Radio, Radio Feature, Radio NZ, RNZ, RNZ Feature, RNZ Feature: The Music of Billie Holiday, Simon Sweetman, The Music of Billie Holiday, Trauma, Vocals ·

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February 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 245: John Wareham

Welcome back to Sweetman Podcast for 2021. I posted the first episode for the year just last week. And now it’s time for a new one – so this is episode 245 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Addiction, Album Review, Basketball, Ben Affleck, Drama, Film, Film Score, Hoosiers, Movie, Movie Soundtrack, Rob Simonsen, Rob Simonsen: The Way Back (OST), Soundtrack, Sports, The Natural, The Way Back, The Way Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Watertower Music, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 5-Part, Adaptation, Addiction, Alcohol, American Psycho, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brideshead Revisited, Charles Ryder, David Nicholls, Drama, Drugs, DVD, DVD Review, Edward Berger, Edward St Aubyn, Hugo Weaving, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mini-Series, Novels, Patrick Bateman, Patrick Melrose, Patrick Melrose: DVD, TV, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Auckland, CEO, Changing Minds.org.nz, Changing Minds), Chat, Conversation, Depression, Drugs, Episode 81, http://changingminds.org.nz/, Interview, Le Petite Chocolat, Mental Health, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Strengthening Self Determination, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 81, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 81 – Taimi Allan (CEO, T Leaf T, Taimi Allan, Yeastie Boys ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged A Bit Brutal But Very Truthful, Addiction, Band, Booga Beazley, Chat, Conversation, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction, Drugs, ep.76, Episode Seventy-Six, Family, Film Festival, Head Like A Hole, History, HLAH, Interview, Julian Boshier, Le Petite Chocolat, Lewis Tennant, Manager, Mental Health, Nigel Beazley, Nigel Regan, Podcast, Shihad, Swagger of Thieves, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 – Tamzin Beazley, T Leaf T, Tamzin, Tamzin Beazley, Yeastie Boys ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Memoir of Madness, Addiction, Book, Book Review, Child Abuse, Classical, Classical Music, Drugs, Instrumental, James Rhodes, Medication and Music, Memoir, Musician, Rape ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Tinker's Cuss, A Tinker's Cuss # 20, Addiction, Drugs, Guest Blog, Jim Wilson, Jim Wilson: A Tinker's Cuss # 20, Memoir, Phantom Billstickers, Writing ·

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September 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lotta Dann: Mrs D Is Going Without

Mrs D Is Going Without Lotta Dann Allen & Unwin “I used to be a boozy housewife. Now I’m not. This is my book” – that’s the subtitle/intro. And before Lotta Dann was known (“boozy housewife” of TV political reporter, Corin Dann) she was just Mrs D – anonymous. She of the blog that’s now […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Author, Blog, Blogger, Book, Book Review, Corin Dann, Lotta Dann, Mrs D Is Going Without, Wine ·

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