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February 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021

Every year it’s music. All day it’s music. All the time. And if it’s not then there’s a film on – and I’m usually noticing the music. Or it’s a podcast. Which has music. Or is an interview about music. When I’m reading it’s a music biography or it’s poetry – which has its own […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Ambient, Bananarama, Book, Brian Eno, Car, Carole King, Charles Mingus, Cool Summer, Cool Summer: The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021, Cruel Summer, Damn The Torpedoes, Daniel Lanois, Discreet Music, Driving, Emmylou Harris, Ennio Morricone, Family, Hermit of Mink Hollow, Holiday, John Martyn, Playlist, Rage Against The Machine, Reading, Roadtrip, Score, Solid Air, Soundtrack, Spotify, Summer, The Mission, The Musical Rediscoveries of 2020/2021, Todd Rundgren, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Wrecking Ball, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 176

Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel [Security] (1982) Peter Gabriel – huge fan! I wonder sometimes how you couldn’t be a huge fan of his work. It’s almost perfect, and yet still almost always peculiar. That’s what I want. Weird. And Wonderful. Equal measures. I believe he has achieved that feat – and then made great commercial […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1982, Car, Kiss Of Life, LP, Melt, Peter Gabriel, PG, Record, S/T, Scratch, Security, Self-Titled, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 176, Vinyl ·

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February 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Ten Cents Well Spent

We used to listen to these CDs from the library. In the car. Fucking ring-a-ring-a-rosies. The fucking Wiggles. Bloody Peter Combe. All this shit. You have a car stereo. You have a wee kid. We tried audio-books with stories and for a while it was just fine to listen to The Beatles. Something for the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Car, CDs, Money, Music, Radio, Short Story, Short Story: Ten Cents Well Spent, Stereo, Ten Cents Well Spent ·

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December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 21 – Peter Gabriel

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Five Songs For Friday. And today I dug out the first five Peter Gabriel solo albums. I love Peter Gabriel. I love his Genesis stuff – I love almost all of the Genesis stuff, with him, without him and certainly everything he’s done since. I love the soundtracks, […]
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May 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing

This almost-comically overwritten attempt at hanging out with boy racers (and “chick racers”) was commissioned by a magazine about some 15 or 16 years ago…maybe a bit longer. I can’t quite remember. What I do remember is I was in a car with the man known as Blink – then a photographer, and ever since […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blink, Car, Cars, Driving, Feature, Feature Article, Feature Writing, Freelance, From The Archives, From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing, Midnight Motor Racing, Night ·

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October 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 80 The Lights

I was walking home from work and stopped in Aro St Park to catch up with Lola the cat sitting on her bench. I got a great shot of her waiting for a pat. It was a beautiful Friday afternoon. When I got down to where the motorway meets Willis and Able Smith St and […]
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September 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1038

Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel [Car] (1977) I’ve got this thing with Peter Gabriel lately – where I’m obsessed with this idea that he’s one of so very few rock/pop stars who has been able to grow old gracefully. Think about it though – he’s never made a dick-move like Sting or Phil Collins or Bono […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1977, Car, Genesis, LP, Peter Gabriel, S/T, Solsbury Hill, Vinyl ·

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