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April 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Wil Sargisson & Margot Pierard (April 3, Hawke’s Bay)

Wil Sargisson & Margot Pierard: Margot and Wil Time A Part Hygge, Te Awanga; HB Saturday, April 3 I first heard Margot Pierard and Wil Sargisson work together late last year at a house concert in Hawke’s Bay. I was blown away. Here, two world class talents took us on a journey through some of […]

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January 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: …like a faded photograph…

i left my faded Kodak childhood just beyond my reach some of it is probably scattered in traces around Clifton Beach i’m glad I left it, then decided, to let it be. it always belonged to someone else it never belong to me

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June 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1100

Charlie Rich, Classic Rich (1978) You’re allowed to not like Charlie Rich when your memory of it, of him, is hearing Every Time You Touch Me and The Most Beautiful Girl and you’re mosquito bitten and sunburnt, wriggling about in a tent trying to sleep while the drunk adults spill booze from plastic cups at […]

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May 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1133

Kenny Rogers, Ten Years of Gold (1977) Kenny Rogers was the sound of summer in Hawke’s Bay in the late 1970s and early 1980s – or rather, I should say, it was the sound of my summer, a crucial part of the summer soundtrack. I had no say in it by the way. My father […]