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March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 424

Tom Waits, The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) I come and go with Tom Waits but in some ways this is my favourite albums of his, the most special to me might be the better way to put it. I discovered it as a CD – and it needed to be that way. You see […]

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November 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

A Word From The Wise: His Name is Bukowski

Bukowski’s poems, novels, short stories, travel accounts, journals, screenplays, letters an columns used to fill a shelf in my room. I collected them for as long as Bukowski has been dead – scarily that’s now over 20 years. And recently I moved most of them on, time to let them live somewhere else. Let someone […]

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August 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 126 Post Office

In early 1984 the band was on hold. I’d recorded Act Your Age in Auckland almost as a solo album and I had two children on the way – I needed to get a job. Michelle and I were living in the big warehouse on Wakefield Street and I had been doing a bit of […]

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September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Mirroring

some days it seems like nothing goes right. you put on your favourite album – it’s scratched beyond belief: it won’t play. you pick your favourite line – designed to sound like Bukowski: some days it seems like there’s a rock in every snowball. you put your next favourite album on – it plays! it […]