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December 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 145: Freeman White
Welcome to episode 145 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – 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 to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can get […]Archive
July 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: My Dinner With Havelock North – Part Two
yeah, well I think you’ll find that Bill English is actually a pretty honest guy. More honest than most politicians, probably. yeah, and the thing is the country is a business – maybe the biggest business of all. So you run it like a business. You have to. yeah, I’m not so sure about that. […]Archive
February 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Under A Starry Sky (February 4, Havelock North)
Under A Starry Sky: Sharon O’Neill, Margaret Urlich, Debbie Harwood, Annie Crummer, Shona Laing and Hammond Gamble Black Barn Winery, Havelock North Saturday, February 4 A repeat of last year’s show, with the same line-up – and why not! – a stunning venue and a great line-up of talent. It was a(nother) perfect Hawke’s Bay […]Archive
January 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 47 – Debbie Harwood
Welcome to episode 47 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with musician Debbie Harwood. This was my first time meeting Debbie – but we’ve been corresponding for a while, including planning this podcast on/off for around a year. Turns out she lives around the corner from my parents in Hawke’s […]Archive
December 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Do You (Ever) Feel Like We Did? – The One Time It Worked to DJ Some Peter Frampton
My aunty was married twenty years ago (one of them) and using the state-of-the-art late 1980s technology I had my first gig as a DJ. I was 12. The big hit at the wedding, from the three dubbed C-90 tapes I made was the soundtrack to The Blues Brothers, specifically the double-whammy of Cab Calloway’s […]Archive
January 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Blind Boy Paxton: NZ Tour (March, 2016)
Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton will make his New Zealand debut in March. Playing four shows (Auckland’s Tuning Fork, Thursday, March 10, The Naval Point Club in Lyttelton, Friday, March 11, Wellington’s Bodega on Saturday, March 12 and Black Barn in Havelock North, Sunday March 13) he’s well worth checking out. Playing harmonica, piano, ukulele, banjo, […]Archive
December 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: Homecoming – 80s DJ Set for Christmas Eve, Turks Bar, Havelock North, Thursday, December 24
Back in the bay for Christmas – and down to Turks to play some 80s tunes – good fun. And a good list I reckon, not your standard 80s DJ set…well, not my standard one, but plenty of favourites, and a few random selections…Merry Christmas everyone, here’s the tunes I played as a long-haul 5pm-11.30pm […]Archive
December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 775
The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God (1988) It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank… Tonight I’ll be playing that song from this record down at Turks Bar in Havelock North as part of an all-80s DJ set. I won’t be doing much in the way of Christmas songs but […]Archive
December 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Turks in Havelock North – Homecoming Xmas Eve: 80s music DJ Set (Thursday, December 24)
I’m back in Hawke’s Bay for Christmas and I’m going to be playing some 80s records down at Turks in Havelock North on Thursday, December 24. Christmas Eve. It’s an early start – 5pm, and an early finish (11.30pm for a midnight close). So that’s over six hours of my favourite tunes from the 1980s. […]Archive
October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 9 – Matthew Couper
Here’s episode nine of Sweetman Podcast now – my chat with Matthew Couper. Matt’s an artist, Hawke’s Bay born, now Las Vegas based. Matt’s also my oldest friend, in that we’ve known each other since we were three. We went through kindergarten, primary, intermediate and high school along the same strip in Havelock North.Archive
May 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman