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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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, […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
January 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman