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August 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Amy Winehouse in The 27 Club: Ten Years On

Ten years ago, Amy Winehouse lost her fight. Addiction won. She joined The 27 Club. If she was shown more love, taken better care of, if the pressures weren’t the same, you could even say if she was stronger – that might, after all, be someone’s read on it – she could still be with […]
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May 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Amy Winehouse: Live At The BBC [3CD]

Amy Winehouse Live At The BBC [3CD] Republic It’s been ten years since Amy Winehouse’s addiction won – and we lost. We lost a great and very finite talent. The two studio albums completed in Winehouse’s lifetime were perfectly imperfect. She was jazz and she was hip-hop and she wasn’t quite either but was so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse: Live At The BBC [3CD], Back To Black, Deluxe, Expanded Edition, Frank, Later...With Jools Holland, Live at The BBC, Live At The BBC [3CD], Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Frank Zappa: A Very Zappa Birthday (ep)

Frank Zappa A Very Zappa Birthday (ep) UMG Recordings, Inc. Had he still been alive, Frank Zappa would have celebrated his 80th birthday this month. As we know he barely made it into his 50s. As we know from watching any of the clips from the talk show appearances he made in the 1980s he’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 80, 80th Birthday, A Very Zappa Birthday, A Very Zappa Birthday (ep), Album Review, EP, Frank, Frank Zappa, FZ, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Zappa ·

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August 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Moriarty: Back To Amy

Back To Amy  Charles Moriarty  Cassell  The death of Amy Winehouse made me feel very odd – I couldn’t process my feelings about it; I’ve realised now – in many ways that’s because I said a goodbye to her around the time of her “Rehab”-fame. The second album, Back To Black, is largely superb. And I can acknowledge that now. But even with that acknowledgment […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Amy, Amy Winehouse, Back To Amy, Back To Black, Book, Book Review, Charles Moriarty, Charles Moriarty: Back To Amy, Frank, Photographs, photos, Tribute, Winehouse ·

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June 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 546

Frank Sinatra, She Shot Me Down (1981) The world-weariness of that voice. The stoicism-within-the-teariness of that voice. My mum put me onto Frank Sinatra I guess. I dunno, he’s just always been there. But it must have been my mum that first introduced us, in whatever sense. I know she’s a fan. Probably some budget […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Frank, Frank Sinatra, Good Thing Going (Going Gone), Jazz, LP, Record, Reissue, She Shot Me Down, Sinatra, The Vinyl Countdown # 546, Vinyl, Vocal ·

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March 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 744

Amy Winehouse, Back To Black (2006) I was never as sold on this album as Frank – because I’d discovered Frank first, on my own, felt like I’d found it, this album was the one that was given to everyone – and no, that doesn’t matter, not really. But it did to me at the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2006, Amy, Amy Winehouse, Back To Black, Frank, LP, Record, Rehab, Reissue, The Vinyl Countdown # 744, Vinyl ·

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January 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 757

Amy Winehouse, Frank (2003) I was such a huge Amy Winehouse fan when I first heard this album – I got it early, review copy, I felt like one of the first to hear it and it felt like brand new music – built from the parts of some old songs and singing styles and […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2003, Amy Winehouse, Frank, Fuck Me Pumps, LP, Record, The Vinyl Countdown # 757, Vinyl ·

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December 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Kina Sai

Kina Sai is an Auckland musician who goes under the moniker Sinatra Frank. Here are, ahem, “five films” that say with her… I’ve realised through this exercise I don’t watch movies. The last time I was seriously watching movies was when I was a teenager and when I was a teenager it was the nineties. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 8 1/2, Amelie, Batman, Dark Knight Rises, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Federico Fellini, Fellini, Film, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Kina Sai, Frank, Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon, Happiness, Jesus' Son, John Travolta, Kina Sai, Marilyn Monroe, Movie, Movie Review, Movies, Peter Sellers, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Pulp Fiction, Sinatra Frank, Special Guest, The Darjeeling Limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, Third Eye Blind, Todd Solondz, Trailer, Twist, Uma Thurman, Urge Overkill, YouTube ·

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May 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 890

Frank Sinatra, Songs For Young Lovers (1954) I love Frank Sinatra but I can only take so much of the big-band, brassy Rat Pack Frank. What I love is the earlier/mid-period Frank; the down-in-the-dumps Frank. Forlorn Frank. Lovelorn Frank. Love-torn songs – those homilies wrapped in such lovely arrangements. I picked up the newly minted […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 10-inch, 10", 1954, EP, Frank, Frank Sinatra, LP, Record, RSD, Sinatra, Songs For Young Lovers, The Vinyl Countdown # 890, Vinyl ·

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October 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Frank [OST]

Various Artists: Frank (Music and Songs by Stephen Rennicks) Silva Screen Records It’s credited to Various Artists – for it features the film’s stars in their singing/playing roles, but the star of the movie’s soundtrack is composer Stephen Rennicks who had to not only create the usual (and sometimes wonderfully unusual) musical cues – he […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Film, Film Festival, Frank, Frank Sidebottom, Jon Ronson, Michael Fassbender, Movie, Soundtrack, Stephen Rennicks ·

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July 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Frank: Film

Frank Director: Lenny Abrahamson Runaway Fridge Productions/Element Pictures/Film4 If you’ve ever cared about music at all – and you’re reading this site so chances are you have/do – then you must see Frank. Frank is a wonderful film – and there are reasons to see it for what it offers as a film, not least […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Chris Sievey, Film, Film Review, Frank, Frank Sidebottom, Jon Ronson, Lenny Abrahamson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbinder, Movie, New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Stephen Rennicks ·

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July 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jon Ronson: Frank – The True Story That Inspired The Movie

Frank: The True Story That Inspired The Movie Jon Ronson Picador There’s two audiences for this – likely there was crossover anyway, but this will please Ronson fans anyway and it’s also an explanation/preview/behind-the-scenes of the movie, Frank, co-written by Ronson, based on the true story of the character Frank Sidebottom, created by comedian Chris […]
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