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March 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Michael Allred w/ Steve Horton and Laura Allred: BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams

BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams Michael Allred w/ Steve Horton and Laura Allred Insight Comics There are some extraordinary graphic memoirs and bios – the vision, the way the colourist and artist combine with the writer to tell a story. A shining example of this (still relatively new) form is this tribute to David […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biography, Book, Book Review, Bowie, BOWIE: Stardust, David Bowie, Graphic Non-Fiction, Graphic Novel, Insight Comics, Laura Allred, Memoir, Michael Allred, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams, Stardust Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams, Steve Horton, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: “It’s Been Five Years” David Bowie Tribute

I’ve done a few Bowie tribute DJ sets over the years, including when he was alive. But last weekend marked the fifth year since his passing – so I rolled out another five-hour DJ set.  I’ve already shared the setlist but figured you might want to have a listen to these tunes in this order. Someone said […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie Tribute, DJ, Five Years, LP, Playlist, Playlist: "It's Been Five Years" David Bowie Tribute, Record, Spotify, Tribute, Vinyl, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

“It’s Been Five Years…” David Bowie Anniversary Drinks and Tunes: DJ Set

This weekend marks five years since the passing of David Bowie. To honour the legend (and the significance of it being Five Years!) I’ll be playing some my favourite Bowie songs and most of your favourites too this Saturday, January 9 at the San Fran bar in Wellington. From 5pm. I’ll never forget the day i heard the […]
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December 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020

The god-awful small affair that Bowie mentioned seems to have lasted a lifetime –  this year I turned older than Billie Holiday ever did. I’ll never make as many records as Todd Rundgren could in one year. I’d never dare to try. I wrote a book and no one really had a look – or […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 20/20, Billie Holiday, Bowie, Coronavirus, Covid-19, David Bowie, Hindsight, Poem, Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight In 2020, Poem: Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020, R.E.M., Reflection, Self Pity, Self Pitying Hindsight, Self Pitying Hindsight In 2020, Self Pitying Hindsight IS 2020, Todd Rundgren ·

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December 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A New Career In Newtown

Bowie’s not dead! That’s what he said. So I decided to listen. I mean I had no real say in the matter, getting up and walking off would have seemed a bit rude, eh. Not dead at all though. Not dead!  This is the news today. (Oh boy!) I was pretty sure David Bowie was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A New Career In Newtown, David Bowie, Newtown, Poem, Poem: A New Career In Newtown, Wellington ·

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November 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 10

David Bowie, Rosalyn / Where Have All The Good Times Gone! [Single] (1973) Pinups was the first David Bowie album I bought – the first on vinyl; perhaps it was one of the very first original albums of his I heard too. And I dug it straight away – and still do. It’s such a […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1973, Covers, David Bowie, EP, LP, Pinups, Rosalyn, Rosalyn / Where Have All The Good Times Gone!, Single, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 10, Vinyl, Where Have All The Good Times Gone! ·

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November 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stardust: Film

Stardust Director: Gabriel Range Salon Pictures / Wilding Pictures / IFC Films Stardust is a little movie. That could have been fine. There are some wonderful small pictures. But Stardust is also a terrible movie. Plagued by many things – not just a lack of Bowie’s music, and distancing from the estate. For a start, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biopic, Bowie, David Bowie, Film, Film Review, Gabriel Range, Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Movie, Movie Review, Stardust, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Ziggy Stardust ·

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November 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 26

David Bowie, The Laughing Gnome [Single] (1967) You quickly sort the true believers when you delve into David Bowie’s pre-Ziggy years. Or his David Jones years. Or really we’re talking about the bridging of them…some of the David Jones stuff became popular on the back of his world domination in the 1970s. I can take […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, A-side, B-side, David Bowie, David Jones, EP, LP, Record, Side A, Side B, Single, The Gospel According To Tony Day, The Laughing Gnome, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 26, Vinyl ·

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September 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

David Bowie: Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95)

David Bowie Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95) Parlophone UK The gates are wide open now, the David Bowie reissues and new releases are pouring. Some are very, very boring. Some didn’t need to happen. But there are some gems – of course. There’s gold in the vault, and probably a bit more to come […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1. Outside, 1995, 20/20, Album Review, Archive, Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie: Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95), Live, Live Dallas 95, Outside, Ouvrez Le Chien, Ouvrez Le Chien (Live Dallas 95), Parlophone UK, posthumous, Reissue, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31 – Queen, “Hot Space”

Queen, Hot Space, 1982 It should have been called Hot Mess! Amiright? Or amiright? Most Queen fans hate Hot Space, rate it as the one to not rate – its saving grace being the final track, the duet with David Bowie – Under Pressure. Apart from that? What’s there? Messy, meaningless, disco-tinged pop-crap that has […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “Hot Space”, 1982, Brian May, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Queen, Roger Taylor, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 31 – Queen, Under Pressure ·

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May 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Adam Buxton: Ramble Book [Audiobook Edition]

Adam Buxton Ramble Book [Audiobook Edition] HarperCollins / Audible Adam Buxton’s autobiography/memoir Ramble Book exists currently in Audiobook form only – the print version one of many things put on hold by the pesky ol’ Coronavirus. Ramble Book in pages-form will arrive later in the year, meanwhile if anyone was going to do-over the audiobook […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adam Buxton, Adam Buxton Podcast, Audible, Audiobook, Audiobook Review, Book Review, Buxton, Comedian, Comedy, David Bowie, Joe Cornish, Louis Theroux, Nigel Buxton, Podcast, Ramble, Ramble Book, Ramble Book [Audiobook Edition], You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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March 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: 20, 20 (ep)

Tricky 20, 20 (ep) False Idols Tricky is one of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic voices in modern music across the last quarter century. You hear in every release how he’s taken from – and given to – the worlds of hip-hop, trap, grime, electro, pop and so many hybrid genres and then out into the […]
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