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March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of Hobbies Where You Kinda Suck: The Wonderful Experience of Being Quite Shit
I was never the greatest drummer. But I made a living from it. For a while. I made more money playing the drums in bands around the country than I have ever made from writing. I’d pack the car for a weekend and play songs I didn’t love to audiences there for beer and I […]Archive
February 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Dream Team
Summer Olympics, 1992. The American basketball squad was called The Dream Team; it was the first time they’d let all the NBA players of the day into the national team. It was like something out of an action movie; a revenge-play because they’d been beaten by the Soviet Union. They couldn’t get Sly Stallone, Bruce […]Archive
April 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 224 – Cigna Saints, Wellington, 2019
I had a really great chat with a Facebook friend the other day. We had never met. But he recognised me and got chatting about things I’d written and from there we had a huge conversation about the arts and culture and content and contributing and how being an audience member, a consumer, is part of the […]Archive
February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman