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July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Album Preview: New Music Coming by Brisa Roché + Single ‘Can’t Stand’ Out Now!

At the start of this year the Brisa Roché album Father consumed me. The first best album I heard in 2019 – my first rave review for the year. And it’s been in my ears, and I’ve been carrying it in my heart, ever since.   When you fall so heavily for something the very best news is that new music […]
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March 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: January 2019

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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January 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Brisa Roché: Father

Brisa Roché Father Black Ash/Wagram Brisa Roché is an American artist – she’s lived much of her life in France and though she has five (mostly excellent) albums behind her it’s this, her sixth, Father, that will truly resonate. Poetry, art, songwriting – her chief influence is the work of PJ Harvey – it all […]
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January 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 99 – Adam Page

Welcome to episode 99 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a conversation with Adam Page, he’s an Australian musician – based in Adelaide. He runs Wizard Tone Studios and the label Wizard Tone Records is home to not only his own recordings but a great range […]
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July 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: A Handed-Down Truth

“He’s just so bright”, they say and you say, ‘thanks, I guess’ or ‘cheers’ and you pretend to make no big deal of it. It means nothing (it means everything!) See, the light went out, for you, a long time ago – it stopped shining, after failure upon failure, and too long taken to do […]
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July 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Arginase

He and his father had only had one argument. It started five years ago…
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May 31, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

In My Father’s House: Film

In My Father’s House Directors: Ricki Stern/Anne Sundberg Break Thru Films Here’s a very thoughtful mediation on reconciliation; the heartbreak and lasting impacts of addiction, the frustration of needing to acknowledge, of not being able to escape ones genes. Che “Rhymefest” Smith has songwriting credits on Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and the recent Academy and […]
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August 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 19 John McLeary

If my dad were still alive he’d be 94 on Hiroshima Day. He was born in 1920 in Dundee, the youngest with three sisters. His father, John McLeary, was a mystery man of Irish descent who died when dad was four. Very tough times, he had to leave school and earn a living early on, […]
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