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April 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: I Pinch Myself That I Shared Time On This Planet – Albeit Via A Phone Call – With Cassandra Wilson…But I Called Her A Little Earlier Than Planned, Oops!
Cassandra Wilson performed one of the best gigs I’ll ever see – it was back in 2013, part of Wellington’s Jazz Festival. And I’ve just remembered that I spoke to her on the phone ahead of that trip. So there might be a few dated references here and there – but with that knowledge, that […]Archive
January 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: The Fred Wesley Interview
Sometimes the interview goes better than you could have planned – you’re into it, you want it to go well but the person on the other end of the line is a total pro, more than they they seem real – even if it’s the Staged-Interview Version of Real. So it was for me with […]Archive
June 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: The “Weird Al” Yankovic Interview
I had a chance, a few years back, to chat with “Weird Al” Yankovic – it was fun. He was mostly pretty serious, but we got to talk through a few of his finest parodies and his motivations around doing what he did. He was about to tour NZ and play Christchurch – the tour […]Archive
June 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: The Jennifer Batten Interview
Here’s an interview I did a few years ago with Jennifer Batten. It was fun talking to her, interesting getting her insight on working with a) one of pop music’s biggest stars – and b) one of the most respected guitar heroes on the planet. * Jennifer Batten made her name as the shock-haired guitarist […]Archive
June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: One of These Days, I’m Gonna Sit Down And Write Myself a Letter
I used to get a lot of hate mail – and then that turned into ‘comments’ and now it’s being tagged in an angry Facebook rant, or whatever. Sub-tweeted, but sub-humans…It’s all fair in love and blogging. But I got pretty good at receiving and reading hate-mail and figured I’d be able to pass off […]Archive
May 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: A Chat With Jamie Lidell
As I’ve said previously I had this insane year in around 2008 where I was writing a daily blog, working full-time, writing reviews for Wellington’s paper, freelancing elsewhere including TV and radio spots and publishing work under a fake name for one of the Auckland-based weekend papers. Not sure how it was being done really […]Archive
May 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: Midnight Motor Racing
This almost-comically overwritten attempt at hanging out with boy racers (and “chick racers”) was commissioned by a magazine about some 15 or 16 years ago…maybe a bit longer. I can’t quite remember. What I do remember is I was in a car with the man known as Blink – then a photographer, and ever since […]Archive
October 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman