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June 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 171: Sugar Magnolia Wilson
Welcome to episode 171 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 it’s a chat with poet Sugar Magnolia […]Archive
May 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Jessica Hopper: Night Moves
Night Moves Jessica Hopper University of Texas Press, First Edition edition Jessica Hopper collected up two decades of her music criticism recently and it’s a great read – covering hip-hop, pop and indie. She was a publicist, DJ, mover and groover before – and around – being a paid, published music writer. So for her next book she’s taken her own diaries from the early 00s when […]Archive
May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Bret Easton Ellis: White
White Bret Easton Ellis Knopf; 1st Edition edition “Stop whining, take your medicine; grow the fuck up” – this is Bret Easton Ellis’ advice in his first effort at non-fiction; a book written to largely justify a series of individual tweets and then all-out Twitter brawls, a book that starts promisingly as actual memoir and then shifts just as surreally […]Archive
May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier Henry Holt and Co. Jaron Lanier was there for the building of the internet, an early chat-room visitor (and developer), a guy with major tech credentials. He’s become an internet philosopher, a fierce critic of Silicon Valley; he’s like any writer with a troubled history and […]Archive
May 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Colin Hogg: Off The Road
Sam Hunt: Off The Road Colin Hogg (w/ Sam Hunt) HarperCollins When I read The Spinoff’s review of this book – I laughed. I loved it. Brilliantly written – and I winced at the thought that it was probably true, but that I still wanted to read Off The Road because the book that started the friendship between Hunt and Hogg, and the […]Archive
May 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Todd Rundgren: The Individualist – Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations
The Individualist – Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations Todd Rundgren CLEOPATRA; First edition When I first heard Something/Anything? it blew my mind. It still does actually. Regularly. I knew about Todd Rundgren the guitarist and producer – with credits ranging from Meat Loaf and XTC through to creating the score for the movie Dumb and Dumber…but I had never heard any […]Archive
April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge
I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]Archive
April 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
I Wrote The Foreword For Jan Hellriegel’s New Book/Album – Sportsman Of The Year
I wrote the foreword to Jan Hellriegel’s new book/album – in my defense I thought I was writing ‘Liner Notes’ – which is fine, the foreword to the book is still part of the liner-notes to the album…you see Jan contacted me and told me she wanted to send me her new album. I think I […]Archive
April 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Graeme Jefferies: Time Flowing Backwards
Time Flowing Backwards: A Memoir Graeme Jefferies Mosiac Press Graeme Jefferies has made some of the great noisy pop from New Zealand – he’s sent it out to the world, taken it with him as he’s traveled through America and based himself – for huge periods of time – in Europe; then he brought it all back home […]Archive
April 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Carl Shuker: A Mistake
A Mistake Carl Shuker VUP The literary page-turner – a rare beast. Pip Adam can do it. John Colapinto managed it with both fiction and non-fiction and here Carl Shuker manages it and essentially turns non-fiction into fiction, or frames fiction via non-fiction and/or vice-versa. But what’s true, instantly, of A Mistake, his fifth novel, is that the writing is electric, the […]Archive
March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman