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July 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 125 – Russell Self

Welcome to episode 125 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a chat with Russell Self. He’s a Wellington-based, English-born musician and poet. Russell’s held many jobs, let many more go, he’s been a busker, a troubadour, he recites his own poems and sings covers – he also […]
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May 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

To Be Or Not To Be: Film

To Be Or Not To Be Director: Jing Chen (Independent) A short film – merely a conversation of just 11 minutes – but it screens as part of a series of shorts at the Doc Edge Festival – To Be Or Not To Be is a snapshot of the busking-career, motivations, influences and frustrations of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Busker, Doc, Doco Short, Documentary Edge Festival, Film, Film Review, Jing Chen, Luke Hurley, Movie, Movie Review, Musician, Short Film, Shorts, The Launchpad, To Be Or Not To Be: Film, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 93 – Vorn Colgan

Welcome to episode 93 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Vorn Colgan – he records and makes music as a solo artist and with a band under the name Vorn. He’s also a member of Gold Medal Famous and the Wellington Sea Shanty […]
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March 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Folk-Punk Street Performer: Jason Webley returns to Wellington

Jason Webley is a talented musician – he plays a bunch of instruments, he writes songs that aren’t quite folk or punk but could be either. He has the skills of a circus performer, a mime artist, a busker – he was in fact discovered, in a sense, as exactly that: a street performer. He’s […]
Posted in Blog, Interviews · Tagged Amanda Palmer, Bodega, Busker, Evelyn Evelyn, Folk-Punk, Interview, Jason Webley, March 6, Street-Musician, The Folk-Punk Street Performer: Jason Webley returns to Wellington, Webstock, Wellington ·

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August 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Cuba Mall

We were in Cuba Mall the other day sitting on one of the seats you often sit on watching the kids watch the waterfall that does not work watching the people watch the people who throw the coins to the hardly grateful and sadly untalented buskers. We were talking all day about this and that […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bucket Fountain, Busker, Cuba Mall, Poem, Wellington ·

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