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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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. […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
July 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman