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January 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Damon Albarn – A Life In Notes
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Most recently I got to talk about George Harrison’s music for almost a whole hour! And then the team behind the summer programming asked me along to chat about Damon […]Archive
January 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 591
Gorillaz, Gorillaz (2001) I remember the song Clint Eastwood and loving it straight away. (And I’ve never got sick of it). But I wasn’t straight away sold on Gorillaz. See, I wasn’t at all a Blur fan and I wasn’t that into Damon Albarn. Wasn’t sure if he was any sort of real deal, or […]Archive
November 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 604
Blur, The Story of a Charmless Man [Single] (1996) I was never that much of a Blur fan – not at the time. My interest in their music started after, when Damon Albarn started doing (more) interesting things outside of the band. I then went back and listened to the music of Blur through that […]Archive
December 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: James Buttery
James Buttery is a Melbourne-based Kiwi who probably spends too much time (and a little too much money) digging though record crates across the city. He runs a sort of successful Youtube channel discussing recent vinyl purchases, and other music related topics. Here are five albums he’s loving right now… 1 – Blur, The Great […]Archive
August 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
David Woodcock: The Adventures of You and Me EP
David Woodcock The Adventures of You and Me EP Blow Up Records Southend-on-Sea songwriter David Woodcock comes off all Albarn-meets-Jarvis, a bit of Elvis Costello, a touch of Stiff Records here, reminders of the golden age of Britpop there. And we’re talking just the opening, title track of this EP. Song-craft in spades here, Woodcock […]Archive
May 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Damon Albarn: Everyday Robots
Damon Albarn Everyday Robots Warner Bros. It took a long time to get to any sort of grips with this. I’m talking underwhelming for the first half-dozen+ listens; disappointingly – brutally – underwhelming. I think part of the issue was in the billing of this as Albarn’s first full solo album. Creates too much hype. […]Archive
December 14, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
Blur: Parklive
Blur Parklive EMI Okay, so it was a special occasion – and it was on the back of the rolling special occasion of Blur playing nice (and sometimes playing well); a reunion for the people (apparently). Hey, I like Blur. I really do. I like them more now than then in fact. Back then I […]Archive
November 20, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1469
Blur, Think Tank (2003) My favourite Blur album. That might be the wrong answer – but I don’t think so. I even like that it has the worst Blur song (maybe even the worst song by anyone) on it. I like albums that are great but have one giant shocking shirtbird fuckout of a song […]Archive
June 1, 2011 by Simon Sweetman