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March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
David Byrne: American Utopia
David Byrne American Utopia Nonesuch It’s almost incredible to think it’s been some 14 years between David Byrne solo albums. That’s because he’s busy writing operas, staging shows, sending out e-newsletters, publishing books, collaborating with old pals (Brian Eno) and new friends (St. Vincent) and scoring soundtracks. He’s doing anything he can to not agree […]Archive
February 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 102 – Marie Le Lievre
Welcome to episode 102 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a chat with visual artist Marie Le Lievre. She’s a Christchurch-based artist. A painter, primarily. Though her current show at Bartley & Company in Wellington features drawings and paintings.Archive
July 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Direen – A Memory of Others: Film
Bill Direen: A Memory of Others Director: Simon Ogston Bellbird Pictures Simon Ogston is making the New Zealand music/arts docos where you can’t believe your luck – your favourite cult act, finally, is being correctly, lovingly examined. At a previous film festival it was his take on The Skeptics – and his work returns to […]Archive
June 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 166 Marvel Super Heroes
Growing up in the 60s I think I probably first discovered them through black and white reproductions in English weekly comics like Smash or Whizzer and Chips. They reprinted early Fantastic Four, Thor and Daredevil issues and I really took to them – particularly the Jack Kirby artwork with the strange anatomy and alien landscapes.Archive
May 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Kickstart Her Art: Help Annabel Alpers To Make Another Album
For about a decade Annable Alpers was Bachelorette. Under that moniker she made great music. She made three studio albums, an EP and a single. She was signed to Drag City (US label), she toured with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Low, Bill Callahan (Smog), Animal Collective, Magnetic Fields and Stereolab. She put on hypnotic shows as […]Archive
July 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict: DVD
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Dakota Group/Fischio Films/Submarine Entertainment/Madman Following on from the terrific Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (about her husband’s grandmother) here director Lisa Immordino Vreeland turns her eye to another strong, individualistic woman who put her stamp entirely on the world she occupied; we move from fashion […]Archive
June 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 116 The Paintings – Part Two
I spent a couple of years working on a certain trilogy of films molding and casting props and while I found the work fascinating and challenging it was also all-consuming and creatively frustrating – self-expression didn’t really come into it. My main saving grace in that way was the Spines which I managed to keep […]Archive
May 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Adrian Tomine: Killing and Dying – Stories
Killing and Dying: Stories Adrian Tomine Drawn and Quarterly Adrian Tomine has published single-story graphic novels, ongoing strips and dozens of award-winning single panels, including many of the great covers for The New Yorker but Killing and Dying is a standalone set of short stories, connected by their themes of ennui, loss of hope, modern-day […]Archive
March 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
NZ Festival Writers Week: Miranda July – Lost Child!
Miranda July: Lost Child! The Opera House Wednesday, March 9 When Miranda July was a young kid she wrote a book called Lost Child! She begins her Writers Week festival talk with slide-show images of the cover and reads a few pages from the book – she can’t read it all (“it was a trilogy”). […]Archive
January 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. David Bowie
David Bowie (b. David Jones, January 8, 1947) was a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, painter and actor. He was an icon. He remains that. We throw about words like ‘Legend’ and ‘Icon’ too easily these days. It’s hard to think of just one word to encapsulate Bowie. But we could use the word ‘Artist’ – […]Archive
December 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman