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March 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 109 – Elvis Perkins

Welcome to episode 109 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with the great Elvis Perkins. This was a huge thrill to me, I’ve been a fan since his debut album, Ash Wednesday. Perkins was in New Zealand – his first visit – as part of […]
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March 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

HOME: Theatre

HOME Created by Geoff Sobelle Opera House; NZ Festival (March 7-11) We begin in pitch black – creator of the show, magician, actor, theatre-illusionist Geoff Sobelle appears, he builds a screen. Some people seem to find it painstaking – it’s a test of sorts. But the screen – a wooden frame with cloth stapled to […]
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March 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Elvis Perkins: The Blackcoat’s Daughter

Elvis Perkins The Blackcoats’s Daughter [OST] Death Waltz Recording Company In the mid/late 2000s Elvis Perkins made a couple of terrific singer/songwriter albums – he was part Paul Simon, part Van Morrison – but most importantly the biggest part of him was something other; was Elvis Perkins. He arrived on the scene back-loaded with back-story, […]
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June 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Elvis Perkins: I Aubade

Elvis Perkins I Aubade Mir Image Reproduction Elvis Perkins has made three wonderful – distinct – albums. The first, startling, heartbreaking, wonderful – 2007’s Ash Wednesday, then there was 2009’s Elvis Perkins In Dearland, a band-name and album. Those two records were different from one another, but a logical progression – just a couple of […]
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May 27, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

John Murry: The Graceless Age

John Murry The Graceless Age Rubyworks/Bucketfull of Brains The full-length debut from John Murry, The Graceless Age, is a stunner. It’ll be one of the albums of the year for me. I’m sure of that. Sold, instantly, I knew it had something from the vital first seconds of the first track, it’s continued to reward. […]
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October 2, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1826

Bowerbirds, Upper Air (2009) Katy came home to tell me I had to order her some albums by Bowerbirds. Seeing that they were available on vinyl and CD I decided to get the first album on CD and the more recent one, this one, as an LP (thoughtfully it contains a download code as most new […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Bowerbirds, Elvis Perkins, Hymns For A Dark Horse, Katy, Northern Lights, Upper Air, Vinyl ·

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May 21, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1992

 Elvis Perkins, Elvis Perkins In Dearland (2009) Ash Wednesday was one of the nice-surprise finds of 2007 for me, reviewing. It arrived one day. I can’t even say that it looked interesting. But I played it. And liked it. When that happens you play albums again and again and you end up liking them more (if […]
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