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June 7, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: June 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]