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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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.Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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: […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
June 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman