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September 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Guest Blogging: Retro Record Reviews by Toby W. McWilliams

From time to time guest contributors come on board at Off The Tracks. The longest running is Jon McLeary’s Ghost of Electricity: War Stories a weekly series of guest posts that has been going for over two years now. There have been occasional guest posts by Jeremy Taylor of Slow Boat Records and Michael Ross […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Classic Album Reviews, Classic Albums, Guest Blogging, Guest Blogging: Retro Record Reviews by Toby W. McWilliams, Guest Contributor, Guest Post, Introduction, Retro Reviews, Toby W. McWilliams ·

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September 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Lloyd Cole Classic Songbook Tour: NZ Shows (Jan/Feb 2017)

The release of a Lloyd Cole career retrospective box set was the catalyst for an acclaimed series of live concerts around Europe showcasing Cole’s songs between 1983 and 1996. Now New Zealand gets a turn with the singer/songwriter performing seven shows here from January 28 to February 5, 2017. Cole will perform in Auckland, Devonport, Wellington, Nelson, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2017), Classic Albums, Classic Recordings, Easy Pieces, February, January, Lloyd Cole, Lloyd Cole and The Commotions, Lloyd Cole Classic Songbook Tour, Lloyd Cole Classic Songbook Tour: NZ Tour (Jan/Feb 2017), Lloyd Cole Songbook, Mainstream, NZ Tour, NZ Tour (Jan/Feb 2017), Plus1, Rattlesnakes ·

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October 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, 2013

It can’t be often you get to see two of the best gigs you could ever see in one night – well it happened to me once. Same band too – Kraftwerk playing their classic albums through one by one. Eight albums across four nights, two shows a night and I got to hear the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, 3D, Australia, Autobahn, Classic Album, Classic Albums, Kraftwerk, Live, Live Gig, Opera House, Radio-Activity, Radioactivity, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Vivid Festival ·

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February 12, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Phillip Crandall: Andrew WK’s I Get Wet (33 1/3)

Andrew WK’s I Get Wet (33 1/3) Phillip Crandall Bloomsbury Academic So often with the 33 1/3 series I’m reading about a classic album, one I know so well, one I felt I probably could have written about – I’m sure many readers of the series fell this way; it’s part of the charm. But there’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2002, 33 1/3, Andrew WK, Book Review, Classic Albums, I Get Wet, Phillip Crandall ·

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April 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: New Series

I’ve started a new series of pieces called Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again. The good folk at Phantom Billstickers are publishing them weekly over at their Facebook page. Here’s the first entry. I wrote about Pink Floyd’s The Wall to kick the series off. There’ll be classic albums I never liked and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Classic Albums, Classic Albums I Can't Ever Listen To Again, Facebook, Nostalgia, Phantom Billstickers, Pink Floyd, The Wall, Weekly Series, Writing ·

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