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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 […]
Posted in Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Alcohol, Anchor, Apple, Author, Beer, Beyond The Vines, Book, Books, Brewed, Chat, Conversation, Craft Beer, Distributor, Educator, ep.242, Hospitality, Importer, Interview, Jules Van Costello, Kiwi, NZ, Podcast, Promo, Promoter, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 242, Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello, Sweetman Podcast: Jules Van Costello, Wine, Wine Industry, Writer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Bukowski: On Drinking

On Drinking Charles Bukowski Ecco Charles Bukowski would have been 100 if he was still alive today – and of course making it to his 70s was, for him, the equivalent of living to nearly 200. He was all but dead in his 20s. And 30s. And 50s. And drinking was his thing. The hard […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 100, Alcohol, Barfly, Booze, Buk, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, Charles Bukowski: On Drinking, Compilation, Drinking, Ecco, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Henry Chinaski, Hollywood, Novels, On Cats, On Drinking, On Love, On Writing, Poems, Poetry, Post Office, Short Stories, 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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January 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin

Welcome to episode 98 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Yvonne Lorkin, she’s a Hawke’s Bay-based wine-writer, taster, judge, critic and enthusiast. She’s also behind WineFriend, a subscription service that lets you present preferences allowing Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin to hand-select the […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Booze, Chat, Conversation, Critic, Drink, Drinking, ep.98, Episode Ninety-Eight, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, HB, http://yvonnelorkin.com/, https://www.winefriend.co.nz/, Interview, Judge, Le Petite Chocolat, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin, T Leaf T, Tasting, Vyonne Lorkin, Whiskey, Wine, Wine-Tasting, WineFriend, Writer, Yeastie Boys, Yvonne Lorkin ·

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October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay (Yeastie Boys)

Welcome to episode 85 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. And this one is a conversation with one of those sponsors – Stu McKinlay of Yeastie Boys. We talk about his life and the creation and development of the Yeastie Boys beer and brand. Based in the UK now, […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Beervana, Chat, Converastion, ep85, Food, Hospitality, Interview, Le Petite Chocolat, Music, Podcast, Politics, Simon Sweetman, Sponsor, Stu McKinlay, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 85 – Stu McKinlay (Yeastie Boys), T Leaf T, UK, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys ·

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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 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs

Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alcohol, Beer, Beer With Me, Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, Beer With MeBeer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, City Gallery, Concert, Drink, Drinking, Drinks, Drunk, Gigs, Music, Show, SJD, The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs, Tuatara ·

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June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol

Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1970s, Alcohol, Art, Beer, Booze, Drink, Drinking, Drinks, Drunk, ep 167, Football, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hamilton, Jon Mcleary, Music, Piss, piss-up, Pissed, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories #167, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn, Whisky, Writing ·

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December 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 89 Panic in the Supermarket

Mystery Creek is a Field Day site and in the late seventies, while I was working there we hosted two big events. The first was an agricultural field day – where we rode around on tractors, got shouted a whole lot of beer and got to meet John Hore Grenell. The second one was a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alcohol, Art, Death and Supermarkets, Dilantin, Drugs, Epilepsy, Guest Blog, Guest Post, John Hore Grenell, Jon Mcleary, Medication, Music, Negative Theatre, Seizure, Spines, Supermarket, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 89 Panic in the Supermarket, The Spines, Waikato, War Stories, War Stories # 89, Wellington, Wgtn, Writing ·

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May 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

In My Father’s House: Film

In My Father’s House Directors: Ricki Stern/Anne Sundberg Break Thru Films Here’s a very thoughtful mediation on reconciliation; the heartbreak and lasting impacts of addiction, the frustration of needing to acknowledge, of not being able to escape ones genes. Che “Rhymefest” Smith has songwriting credits on Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and the recent Academy and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Alcohol, Auckland, Che "Rhymefest" Smith, Doco, Documentary, Documentary Edge, Documentary Edge Festival, Documentary Festival, Father, Film, Film Review, Hip-Hop, In My Father's House, In My Father's House: Film, Movie, Movie Review, Q, Rap, Rapper, Roxy, Wellington ·

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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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