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March 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 251: Mere Boynton

Welcome back for another week and another new guest, this is episode 251 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to […]
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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival 

Welcome to episode 167 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  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 library. Here’s a conversation with Marnie Karmelita – she’s the […]
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February 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 156 – Mike Weston

Welcome to episode 156 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  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 library. Here I had a chat with Mike Weston – it […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Art, Artist, Arts, Behave, Chat, Collective, Community, Conversation, Create, Discussion, DJ, Enabler, ep156, Episode 156, Innovate, Interview, La Petite Chocolat, Live Sound Engineer, Mike Weston, Music, Musician, NZ, Otis Frizzell, Podcast, Print, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 156, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 156 – Mike Weston, T Leaf T, The Area, Weston, Weston Frizzell, WestonFrizzell, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193 Sixty/Thirty

I was thinking back to myself and what I was like at a certain stage in my life – as you do. Wondering – would I even like that person I was then or would he be able to see himself in me. Take when I was thirty… 1988 A young dad – his kids […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (1934-2015), 1988, 30, 60, Art, Arts, Family, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Magazine, Music, Painting, Sixty, Sixty/Thirty, Spines, The Brain, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193 Sixty/Thirty, The Spines, Thirty, War Stories, War Stories # 193, Wellington, Wgtn, Writing ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Memory of Others, Academic, Art, Artist, Arts, Bellbird Pictures, Bill Direen, Bill Direen - A Memory of Others: Film, Bill Direen: A Memory of Others, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Dunedin, Film, Film Festival, Film Review, Guitar, International Film Festival, Movie, Movie Review, Musician, NZ Film Festival, NZ Tour, Poet, Sheen Of Gold, Simon Ogston, Skeptics, Songwriter ·

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June 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 66 – Danny Mulheron

Welcome to episode 66 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the actor, writer, director Danny Mulheron. I hadn’t met Danny until he bounded in through the doorway, found the piano in our house and started hitting the […]
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May 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

A.O. Scott: Better Living Through Criticism

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth A.O. Scott Penguin Press It’s a good idea, and worth it because A.O. Scott is a good writer, a good critic – worth reading (film critic for the New York Times) and because, hopefully, you believe/in the subject. But it’s odd because […]
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December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year

A couple of weeks ago I left you with a list of the biggest stinkers of 2015 – and I’ve looked back through that list, they are all duds (or were duds to my ears anyway) but there isn’t an album there that stands out as the single worst thing I heard this year. I […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Adam Prize, Arts, Blog On The Tracks, Creative Writing, Culture, Digests, IIML, Jim Pickney, Kiran Dass, Listener, Memoir, Mike Campbell, Music Reviewing, Music Writing, Nick Bollinger, Radio NZ National, Rant, Stinky Jim, The Listener, The Spinoff, The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year, Tom Petty, Victoria University, Warren Zanes ·

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November 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Gregory O’Brien

Wellington-based, Gregory O’Brien is a full-time poet, artist, essayist, curator and cultural odd-jobs-man. Recent books include a monograph on Pat Hanly and a collection of poems, Beauties of the Octagonal Pool. His book length essay News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (2007) was propelled into being by a strict diet of Fred Frith, The Necks, Olivier […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Man Escaped, Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrey Tarkovsky, Art, Arts, Ashik Kerib, AUP, Beau Travail, Bela Tarr, Claire Denis, Critic, Criticism, David Bowie, Directors, Film, Film Directors, Films, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Gregory O’Brien, Florian Habicht, Fred Frith, Greg O'Brien, Gregory O'Brien, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Bittov, Iva Bittova, Kaikohe Demolition, Land of The Long White Cloud, Land of The Long White Could, Movies, Nostalgia For The Light, Painting, Patricio Guzman, Poet, Poetry, Pulp, Pulp: A Film About Life Death and Supermarkets, Robert Bresson, Rubbing From A Live Man, Rubbings From A Live Man, Sergei Parajanov, Seu Jorge, Step Across The Border, Tarkovsky, The Battle of Chile, The Colour of Pomegrantes, The Legend of Suram Fortress, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, VUP, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woodenhead, Writing ·

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March 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Jim Wilson: A Tinker’s Cuss # 18

It has been a long time since I have written a blog but make no bones about it, I have had plenty to say all along the way. I am in Thailand as I write this. I am taking a break from the pressure of running a small business (approximately fifty or sixty employees) in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Tinker's Cuss, A Tinker's Cuss # 18, Arts, Guest Blog, Jim Wilson, Jim Wilson: A Tinker's Cuss # 18, Phantom Billstickers, Thailand, Travel, Writing ·

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August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering The Artist Robert De Niro, Sr: Film

Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr Directors: Perri Peltz/Geeta Gandbhir G2P2 Films/HBO Documentary Films/Tribeca Productions Made as tribute and with just a hint of set-the-story-straight/let’s-get-this-name-out-there Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr is the story of the actor Robert De Niro’s father. Robert De Niro, Sr was an artist – part of the “New […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Art, Arts, Documentary, Painter, Painting, Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro Sr, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro Sr, Sky, Sky Arts Channel ·

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July 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 18 The Brain

At the end of the eighties Ross and Wendy had gone off to do other things. For a while the Spines was Neill and me and any ex-bass player or drummer who was in town. My partner Michelle Tayler, Linzy Forbes and I decided it was time for a full colour NZ arts magazine that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Arts, David Beatson, Garth Cartwright, Greg Johnson Set, Guest Blog, Jon Mcleary, Magazine, Music, Peter McLeavey, The Brain, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 18 The Brain, The Listener, The Spines, Tony Fomison, War Stories, War Stories # 18, Writing ·
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