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October 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Preview: Guest Poet For This Month’s Poetry At The Fringe (Sun, Oct 18)
One Sunday a month there’s an event called Poetry at The Fringe. Almost everything you need to know is in the title there – it features poetry, at a venue called The Fringe Bar. It’s usually the third Sunday of each month and it is free to watch – or participate. Well everyone there is participating…. […]Archive
September 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 228: Ben Mulchin (Valhalla)
Welcome to episode 228 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 […]Archive
June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
A Vinyl Affair: 5th Birthday (Saturday, July 20, 2019)
A Vinyl Affair – Wellington’s Record Fair – turns five years old this July. And to celebrate there’ll be a meet at The Rogue and Vagabond from 10am-4pm, Saturday July 20. As always there’ll be thousands of new and used records for sale – DJs will be playing vinyl all day and there’s great food and drink. Under […]Archive
June 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Of Horse And Men (June 18)
The Wellington Film Society’s program is continues, last week it was 1960s paranoia with Seconds, this week we’re in Iceland, we’re right up to date (well, 2013) and we’ve got one of the shortest running times of the year (around 70 minutes or so) with Benedikt Erlingsson’s movie, Of Horses And Men. Part of the […]Archive
December 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Good Gig, Bad Conversation After…
I used to play in an Irish band – we’d tour around the central North Island (and one time we went to the top of the South Island). We went where the gigs were. It was a working band. Some weeks were hard slog; others were easy. Sometimes there was no work. Many times the […]Archive
May 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 161 Cosgroves
It was a little bar down the side street, part of the Cambridge hotel. Clarke Gregory had started booking bands there in the early 80s. It was semi-underground and the coolest venue in town in its time. He brought through a wide range of bands of the day to play there and it was a […]Archive
June 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 115 Foreign Agent
Hello stranger – welcome to this place I didn’t think I knew you but I’ve thought about your face I was single again for the first time in a long while and I know that I wasn’t handling it at all well. It seems you’ve done some things – that only makes it worse I’ve […]Archive
May 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Beer Honesty
“Not a lot to hide”, he says, as he hides not a lot. And then she turns to meet his eye and sees he’s not hiding a lot. Well after all at least he was honest, she thinks as she moves over and towards any- one elseArchive
September 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Blind Tiger Friday 04/09/15: DJ Set
This Friday, September 4, I’ll be playing some records down at The Blind Tiger, from 9pm on through the night. The Blind Tiger? It’s down in the depths of 101 Ghuznee Street (check the map here, you may remember it formerly as The Burgundy Room). The good folk at Bodega have been working on a […]Archive
March 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman