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October 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 139 – Claire and Andrew talk LitCrawl 2018
Welcome to episode 139 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – 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 to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can […]Archive
September 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
No Holiday: On The Decision Around Having “Another”
This piece first appeared on The Spinoff and is also included as one of the pieces in the book “Is It Bedtime Yet?” by Emily Writes & Friends I always wanted a daughter named Billie. Simple really. As soon as I heard Billie Holiday’s voice I was sold. Her voice, that sound, and the idea of her […]Archive
September 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Kristin Hersh: Nerve Endings – Selected Lyrics
Nerve Endings: Selected Lyrics Kristin Hersh Unbound Though I’m a sucker for a book of lyrics I usually read and discard – realising as I’m reading it that most lyrics deserve to hang in the air, are made for the stage more so than the page; it’s nice to check in with them, really ever […]Archive
September 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Name-Drop…What A Cock!
the night we launched the book we went out for a bit of a feed after, and more drinks – not too many, mind. I had a big interview the next day. And a mate of mine – with experience talking to camera and interviewing everyone – told me I really needed to get my […]Archive
September 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 132 – Peter Black
Welcome to episode 132 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a conversation with Peter Black. He’s a Wellington-based photographer. I didn’t know him, until we had this conversation. But I knew his work. I’ve known his work for a while and it’s had a profound impact […]Archive
August 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: full fathom five (someday i’ll lie)
i wrote a book, and when it was done – when i had the first one, i took it up to my brother’s place. it sat on the table all weekend – and no one said anything. a new book probably didn’t know it had to compete with a new house – and couldn’t of […]Archive
August 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Ezra Furman: Lou Reed’s Transformer (33 1/3)
Lou Reed’s Transformer (33 1/3) Ezra Furman Bloomsbury Academic The death of the album – so greatly exaggerated. And the 33 1/3 series of books in tribute to classic albums (old and new) continues to trot out the titles. Here, musician Ezra Furman looks at Lou Reed’s Transformer album in this volume of the same […]Archive
July 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Book Preview: Is It Bedtime Yet? – by Emily Writes and Friends
Arriving later this week Is It Bedtime Yet? is the brand new book by Emily Writes. She of Rants In The Dark. This time however Emily has some friends along. I’m even one of them! Is It Bedtime Yet’s subtitle is Parenting…the hilarious, the hair-raising, the heart-breaking – it’s a collection of stories, taken in […]Archive
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 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 68: The Adverts – “Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts”
A couple of years ago I agreed to be on a podcast where we had to read a massive-huge book and talk about it, for my episode it was the Norman Mailer tome, The Executioner’s Song. I agreed because the Pulitzer-prize winner had long been on my long-list of must-(get-to-)reads. So this forced my hand. […]Archive
June 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman