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October 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Meeting Bruno

When I was 17, It was a very good year… I met Bruno Lawrence in the most perfect Kiwi way. I was packing my drumkit into the back of my car When I heard a sandpaper-voice say, “flash drums, cunt!” Then a huge belch. I looked back to find New Zealand’s finest actor and one […]
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May 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 305 

Sharon O’Neill, Smash Palace (1982)  This EP is the soundtrack to the movie Smash Palace – one of the first Kiwi films I can remember seeing and one of the first “adult” films I can remember making an impact on me, I’ve rewatched it a bunch of times and it’s both a great complete story/movie and a virtuoso performance from Bruno Lawrence. The music […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, 1982, Album, Bruno Lawrence, EP, LP, Record, Records, Sharon O'Neill, Smash Palace, Soundtrack, The Vinyl Countdown # 305, Vinyl ·

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May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 115 – Fane Flaws

Welcome to episode 115 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Fane Flaws. This was a great conversation – and it was a long time in the making. I hadn’t met Fane, we’d corresponded, I grew up listening to Blerta and The Crocodiles, was […]
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May 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts

Well, he’s a cricket fan, so he’ll enjoy the mention of a “double century” – but one thing I learned a while back is that you have to pick your moments and celebrate your own milestones in this writing-online caper. You have to turn up. And turn up. And turn up again. And if you […]
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February 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering Bruno: My Bruno Lawrence Story

I was 17. Final year of school. I’d done a bit of journalism work for the National Youth Drama School, an ad hoc publicity officer role. Because my interest, at that time, was to move into journalism (I’ve been thinking about moving into journalism ever since then, a silly limbo to be in of course […]
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August 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 71 The Ghost Itself

When I was a kid every Monday the comics would come out – Scorcher and Score and Whizzer and Chips from the UK and Marvel super hero comics from the US. As I entered my teens it was New Musical Express and Rolling Stone but always on a Monday – a great way to take […]
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March 31, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 1 Bruno

The one and only time I met Bruno Lawrence… One Sunday in the early 90s some friends and I headed up to Prince Of Wales Park for a cricket hit around. When we got there the field was already taken by various actors and musos including Bruno and family members.  So we challenged them to […]
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