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July 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Caroline Easther: Lucky

Caroline Easther Lucky Good World Music   The winning combo is having something to say – and the right way to say it; having songs and having a voice that push those songs into (the right) place. So it is with Caroline Easther’s solo debut; a long-time-coming project that collects up songs from a musician who has been steadily writing and singing […]

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May 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 166 – Rob Mayes (Failsafe Records)

Welcome to episode 166 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. I had a chat with Rob Mayes. He runs a […]

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March 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 158 – Caroline Easther

Welcome to episode 158 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. This week I have a chat with […]

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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month

It’s always slightly depressing to me somehow – why we need one at all and who it’s for exactly. Growing up as a kid in the sixties most of the ‘homegrown’ music we heard was local cover versions of overseas artists songs – almost like a karaoke country or lamb dressed as mutton. There were […]

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February 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 97 Post-Punk

The early eighties in Wellington was the best place and the soundtrack for me was what I suppose you would call post punk. It was a new type of music and I loved it – Echo and XTC, Furs and the Cure, Magazine and Joy Division, Dexy’s and Only Ones, Stranglers and Members, Japan and […]

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December 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 88 A Tour of Two Cities Part Two: Napier

There were never really any groupies that followed the Spines – or not that I knew of. I put it down to the fact that we were pretty intense and through the times in the eighties that I was single we always had women in the band itself. There was one period there though, after […]