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December 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

2018: My Year in Review

Adapting. That’s the goal of the music and arts journo now. Has been the case for a few years. But never more so than right now. I started 2018 wondering if there was much point in writing or if there were any readers left for me at all even. I then decided it was about […]
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May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey

Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]
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March 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Here’s An Idea: Have An Idea!

Quite often reviewers are told they have no idea; it’s quite often that reviewers take a view of a film, album or show that is stand-alone – it is, after all, just an opinion. That line is trotted out and made to seem empowering whenever a disgruntled reader/viewer/listener proudly says it. But of course it’s […]
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December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year

A couple of weeks ago I left you with a list of the biggest stinkers of 2015 – and I’ve looked back through that list, they are all duds (or were duds to my ears anyway) but there isn’t an album there that stands out as the single worst thing I heard this year. I […]
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