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November 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Billie Holiday Created Modern Jazz Singing And Also Loved Drugs, Drinking And Fucking
The official story is that Billie Holiday lived a sad life. She was abused and grew up to abuse alcohol and drugs as part of her escape. She peaked, then crumbled, then died broke and losing her voice and all well before the age of 50. But Billie used every interview to point out she’d […]Archive
August 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Charles Bukowski: On Drinking
On Drinking Charles Bukowski Ecco Charles Bukowski would have been 100 if he was still alive today – and of course making it to his 70s was, for him, the equivalent of living to nearly 200. He was all but dead in his 20s. And 30s. And 50s. And drinking was his thing. The hard […]Archive
January 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin
Welcome to episode 98 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Yvonne Lorkin, she’s a Hawke’s Bay-based wine-writer, taster, judge, critic and enthusiast. She’s also behind WineFriend, a subscription service that lets you present preferences allowing Sweetman Podcast: Episode 98 – Yvonne Lorkin to hand-select the […]Archive
August 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Beer With Me: The Ongoing Disaster of Drinking Being Matched With Gigs
Beer and music – we’re told, so often, they go together. The craft beer fellas have all aligned themselves with music, sponsoring gigs, even naming beers after bands. And anyone with a rock’n’roll story of a gig from 20 or 30 years ago often adds in some yarn about being boozed, sozzled, tipsy…or if they […]Archive
June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol
Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.Archive
February 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 150 Out Back of the Bodge
Fraser had been trying to fight the oncoming no-smoking laws that were about to hit NZ bars but it was a lost cause. Like the motorway had forced him to change Bodega’s location, he had to bow with the flow and sort us out a place at the new bar we could puff up large and […]Archive
September 25, 2014 by Simon Sweetman