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February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Bob Gaulke

Bob Gaulke is a New York-based poet and musician – his most recent album is called Obsessives. You can check out his music at his Bandcamp page.  Here are five albums she’s loving right now… I work a stressful job – teaching in a middle school in a poor(er) area of the Bronx. I use […]
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January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition

It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]
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November 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday:  33 – 5 O’Clock Worlds

I’m a big fan of the 5pm Friday music; the perfect album – or playlist – something you put on for the walk home for work, maybe to soundtrack the first pour or even let you drift off for a wee quick snore; some music to celebrate the end of the working week. As the […]
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August 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 32 – The Tao of Neil 

I guess Neil Young’s been on my mind a lot this week – I rediscovered the Weld album which took me to writing about how I first discovered. And before that I enjoyed the Live Rust tribute concert. Sitting there, hearing so many of those great songs got me to thinking about how so often there’s a line – just a […]
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June 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 30 – Rolling Thunder Reviewed! 

Bob Dylan is never far from my mind, my heart, my stereo – if he’s not on the turntable, he’s in my thoughts in some way or another, often informing the music that I’ve chosen to listen to. It’s that deep. He is one of the great musical forces for me – and surely the most […]
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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. 
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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 […]
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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. […]
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March 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 25 – In Celebration of the Return of The Breeders

The Breeders – such a great band, such fun. Always the right time to hear them, always good to listen to. I loved the Pixies, but I don’t feel their music has aged all that well. I love the side-projects – and related acts. Belly, Throwing Muses, Kelley Deal 6000, The Amps. So many good […]
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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, […]
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September 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Film Review: Captain Underpants, The First Epic Movie– Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5)

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Director: David Soren DreamWorks Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5) Captain Underpants had good songs in it and he got splashed with water and there was a telephone going ‘ring-ring-ring-ring/hello/I am Captain Underpants/what is going on/tra-la-la/tra-tra-tra-tra-la-la/why am I soaking wet’. There was whoopie cushions in it. And Mr Krupp, the mean […]
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August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DVD Review: SING – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5)

SING Director: Garth Jennings Illumination Entertainment Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5) The title of the movie is called SING – Miss Crawley has a big eye that can fall off. It bumps on the zero two times on the computer and she meant to type in ‘$1000’ but it came to be $100,000. 
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