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July 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 124 – Bill Direen
Welcome to episode 124 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was chuffed to finally get to have a good long yarn with Bill Direen; to meet him even. We’d never met though we had corresponded. I had reached out to him a while back to podcast – and […]Archive
June 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Direen: Mean Time – EP
Bill Direen Mean Time – EP 666494 Records DK A four-track EP from Direen, released early in 2018 – it finds Bill in a gentle, folk-ish-pop-song mood at least as far as opener Fewer Than Few is concerned. In fact, this has such a Go Betweens-type charm you could be convinced you’re listening to something […]Archive
June 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 397
Builders, Beatin Hearts (1983) Where did Bill/William Direen come from? I tried to find out a bit more about that just the other week – I had him around for a podcast. It’ll be up soon. It was my first time meeting him. Though I know a lot of his music and have read some […]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
July 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Simon Ogston
Simon Ogston is an Auckland-based producer, director and camera-operator. Among other things, Simon has made a number of feature-length films about New Zealand bands. These include Rumble & Bang, Gone With The Weird, Antarctic Angels and the Unknown Blues and Sheen of Gold. His latest film is about Bill Direen, A Memory of Others and it screens at this year’s New […]Archive
October 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Direen: Enclosures 2
Enclosures 2 Bill Direen Percutio Bill Direen’s latest “novel” is another excursion through cross-genre literary wanderings. Here in fact is not one novel but separate instances of poetry, stories, journal entries and narrative fiction combined under the pages of a single volume. It’s a website-approach to print and publishing, the banner being the theme – […]Archive
September 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 635
The Bilders, The Utopians (2014) A 7”inch 3-track EP – click here to check out all the songs if you like – that arrived in the mail just recently; signed by Bill Direen. Pretty chuffed to have this – not least because of the music. But imagine trying to collect up everything Bill’s done, everywhere […]Archive
November 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman