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October 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Finding Hate Mail: Old Friends…

Hate mail is fan mail in this game – a thought that’s probably kept me blogging for seven years… Over the weekend we moved our big three-year-old son into his new big-boy room. That meant listening to a lot of Beastie Boys (fantastic moving/packing/unpacking music) and it meant swapping the home-office and the kid’s bedroom. This […]
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October 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Secret Behind Mr Dompling’s Secret: My First Music Book

Mr Dompling’s Secret was one of my favourite books when I was young. It told the story of a classical cellist, keen on Mozart. It had themes of overcoming fears, of being comfortable in your own skin – and of course there was music. Lots of music. It was my introduction to classical music – […]
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October 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Legendary Hoax

I only have one album by The Legendary Marvin Pontiac – but given his self-proclaimed “Legendary” status it is probably the right one to have: Greatest Hits. It kicks off with I’m A Doggy and from there the, er, “hits” (I’d never heard any of them before I bought the album) roll on. In fact someone […]
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October 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

One Meat – Two Interviews: Interviewing Meat Loaf Twice in One Month

Interview 1: It was going to be so easy. I was chatting with Meat Loaf. He had a new album to talk about, sure, and we would do that. But surely we’d also get to Bat Out Of Hell – love it or hate it, the album is huge. And then there’s the acting work, […]
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October 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

A Love Supreme: John Coltrane’s Life-Changing Sound

My brother arrived home from university with The Stardust Sessions and A Love Supreme. These two albums were life-changing. That’s such a cliché but it’s a cliché for a reason – it’s something that does happen, that has happened often. I carried on playing sport, going to school. In so many ways life was the […]
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October 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The DJ Shadow Masterpiece: Endtroducing…

Fifteen years ago DJ Shadow released his debut long-player, Endtroducing… It is a cut’n’paste instrumental hip-hop album; it effectively created that subgenre, all but creating an actual subculture. It wasn’t music from another world – it was music from so many other worlds. I heard the album for the first time in 1997 – I […]
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October 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Daniel Johnston’s World: Alone With The Magic of that Music

A few years back I went to a film festival screening of the documentary, The Devil and Daniel Johnston. It was an incredible experience sitting through this film as part of the festival; a sold-out theatre. There were hoots of laughter and there were tears. After, the theatre’s foyer was abuzz – many people were […]
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October 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Jaco Pastorius by Jaco Pastorius: One of My Favourite Albums

Here’s one of my favourite albums – I don’t want to say of all time, because that feels a bit trite, but I’ve certainly loved this album since I first heard it, nearly 20 years ago – and nearly 20 years after it was released. Jaco Pastorius’ eponymous debut arrived in 1976. Bobby Colomby, the […]
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October 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Rolling With The Stones: A Lifelong Journey

Growing up the first two Rolling Stones albums I heard were Undercover and Dirty Work. Now, these won’t ever figure highly on lists of favourite Rolling Stones records, but I have a connection to them because, as is often the case with music, the first album/s you hear from a significant artist will remain a […]
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October 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Very Extremely Dangerous Eddie Hinton: Revisiting A Lost Classic

Of course I knew the name Eddie Hinton – and isn’t that the thing we always say, “I know the name”. But with Hinton it’s hard not to know about him. He worked with so many of the greats. But you take a listen to the material he released as a solo artist and you […]
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