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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 […]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 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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
October 30, 2013 by Simon Sweetman