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May 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 29 – Dunedin
A big week for Dunedin – for various reasons happy and sad. Shayne Carter’s excellent memoir is on the shelves. The Martin Phillipps and The Chills doco is out and about and worth seeing – but sadly it’s R.I.P Malcolm Black. So some tribute posts to some of my favourite Dunedin songs – or at least songs from artists connected to that city.Archive
May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 28 – In The Evening
It was back at Five Songs For Friday # 13 when I phoned up late in the day and decided to offer an evening theme. And so here we are again…this time I’ve gone for an actual “In The Evening” thing by choosing songs that all have the word evening in the title, that are about the evening – and things that […]Archive
March 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 27 – The Return of ‘Five Songs For Friday’
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these – far too long. Blame work commitments. I’ve been worried about getting a podcast up some part of Thursday or Friday and then work – the pesky day-job kind – has been on the horizon, looming, with early starts every Saturday for most of the last year. […]Archive
August 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 26 – Chet Baker
I can’t remember when I first heard Chet Baker but I’ve been a fan for a while. A long time. Feels like he’s just been there forever. My whole life. But I would have been a teenager before I first heard him knowingly. And then it was all in. And it’s still the way. Currently […]Archive
February 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 24 – Songs From Brand New (and Upcoming) Albums
It’s a new music Friday, lots of new-new-new things to check out – so here’s a wee sample of some of the key tracks/key artists. Or something like that… Actually, the only album here that is still “upcoming” is the first, all the other tracks here are from band new albums – out today. You’ll […]Archive
February 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 23 – 2018’s First Batch of Brand New Music
I’m still catching up with music from 2016 and 2017, in fact I’m still finding great stuff from the 1970s and the 1950s… So how about all the new stuff from 2018 already? We’re a month in to the new year and some terrific things have made it out into the world of music already. […]Archive
January 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 22 – Giving The Drummer Some…
Drum Solos! – wait, come back! You don’t often hear people crying out for more drum solos, or any drum solos. Even a lot of drummers hate drum solos. But sometimes you see and hear something special. And sometimes the drum solo – or an extended break – is, I dunno, “musical”, and exciting. Well, […]Archive
December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 21 – Peter Gabriel
It’s been a while since we’ve had a Five Songs For Friday. And today I dug out the first five Peter Gabriel solo albums. I love Peter Gabriel. I love his Genesis stuff – I love almost all of the Genesis stuff, with him, without him and certainly everything he’s done since. I love the soundtracks, […]Archive
October 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 20 – New Discoveries/New Rediscoveries
Today it’s all about new things – new songs by new discoveries, new to me at least. Not everything here is brand new, but it’s brand new to my ears. Lots of great music this year, and almost every year – but certainly some new things over the last week or two that I’ve really […]Archive
September 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 19 – Album-Length ‘Songs’
It’s been a while – and since the big news for a lot of people this week was the announcement that Sleep will be playing NZ shows next year (for the first time ever) I thought, in honour of the album Dopesmoker we could look at four single-track albums; album-length songs. So here goes…Archive
August 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman