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January 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 153 – Kiran Dass

Welcome to episode 153 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. I had a chat with Kiran Dass – she is a […]
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June 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 119 – Sarah Bradley

Welcome to episode 119 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I caught up with Sarah Bradley. We worked together on the Good Morning TV Show. I was one of the regular music reviewers there for about seven or eight years. Sarah (along with co-host Brendon Pongia) came on board […]
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April 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 111 – Gil Eva Craig

Welcome to episode 111 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Gil Eva Craig – a sound engineer, producer, tech and musician. She was in the band Sugarbug (I loved them!) and she continues to make music in a variety of sporadic projects including as […]
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December 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 191 Something/Anything?

I Saw The Light was the first song I heard and I remember it was at one of those new-fangled Jeans Stores that were cropping up in Hamilton when I was in high school. I was there with my girlfriend and we were having a crafty pash in a dressing booth and the song came […]
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September 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 181 On The Air – Part Two

When I got the call to be interviewed on the national radio station on a music subject that I knew well it was always going to be about Wellington. I did toy briefly with the idea of talking about Todd Rundgren for half an hour but got talked out of it. I really loved the […]
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August 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 177 The School Social

I was always on the student council at my schools. It didn’t really involve much – wear a little badge and sit around missing class every couple of weeks discussing what was wrong about the place. In my fourth form year at Hillcrest High School though I rose to the rank of Deputy Chairperson and […]
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June 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol

Being a teenager in Hamilton in the seventies involved quite a bit of drinking. There wasn’t a lot to do and it seemed like one of the ways to get out at the time though it was really only a path further into itself.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1970s, Alcohol, Art, Beer, Booze, Drink, Drinking, Drinks, Drunk, ep 167, Football, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hamilton, Jon Mcleary, Music, Piss, piss-up, Pissed, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 167 Alcohol, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories #167, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn, Whisky, Writing ·

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February 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 149 The First Nambassa

Having been to that first Ngaruawahia music festival in 1973 I suppose you could say I got a taste for big rock events – the freedom, the music and excitement. By the time I left school in the mid-seventies they were starting to pop up all around the Waikato. My girlfriend Kristine and I kind […]
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January 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 146 Hillcrest Normal

On that first day of school I cried and cried my eyes out Just turned five and bloody hopeless There were four Davids in the class – Powell, Marsh, Scarrow and Stewart and they all wept too I managed to calm down and entered the strange new world of school We had a red-flamed headmistress […]
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September 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 33 – Jon McLeary

Welcome to episode 33 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This is a conversation with Jon McLeary, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Spines. Regular readers of this site – and/or Jon’s Facebook pages will know him for his weekly contributions here as the writer of The Ghost of Electricity: […]
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July 24, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 121 The Women’s Hospital

Sam was my flatmate in the haunted house on Grey Street, he was an intellectual and a couple of years younger than me, from an upper middle class background and he had a job on a building site. He was earning nearly twice as much as I was at my job drafting at Waikato University […]
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July 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 120 Love In The Canyons

Summer nights in Hamilton bars Looking for ladies in beat up cars Met a connection out on the street It’s alright boys we can smoke this week There was a group of us who had grown up through high school together playing football – we were kind of a family Forgettable evenings we talk about […]
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