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August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #206 – Sting & Peter Gabriel, Seattle, USA, 2016
Last year we were in America – it was the best holiday, and I saw some great gigs. I turned 40 when we were over there – the trip, all of it, everything – was my present. A gift to and from all of us, really. A family vacation – an amazing one. Disneyland, a […]Archive
April 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Driving in America: A Soundtrack For Your Voyage(s) in The United States
Music is with me every step of every day – and on my first visit to America I was amazed to see Grateful Dead CDs in every house that I visited. I figured it to be a bit like finding Dave Dobbyn or Crowded House or Bic Runga or Exponents CDs in New Zealand homes. […]Archive
March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 13: The Roots, San Francisco 2012
Me and my brother-in-law drove down to San Francisco – left the rest of the family back in rural California, decided to take a couple of days out for ourselves. The aim, at first, was to see The Cult. But we drove down with no tickets, no accommodation, and turned up to find it sold […]Archive
March 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #201 – Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA, 2016
It was a pretty great 40th birthday last year – and I wrote a wee bit about it here. Suddenly, just the other day I thought about it again, specifically the trip to the Contemporary Jewish Museum – which was showing an amazing Stanley Kubrick exhibition. I was listening to a podcast with a film […]Archive
August 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 646
William Tyler, Modern Country (2016) The day before we went on holiday I picked up this record – I got it because I was a fan of William Tyler already (loved – Impossible Truth and the Lost Colony EP and totally sold on his sound). And so I only had one chance to give it […]Archive
August 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Diary: # 8 – Sydney from a 747
We fly through the night – which works pretty good, just the one movie, a couple pages of my book and then sleep, mostly sleep. Osc is out for most of the flight, which is great. I could have probably tried a bit harder to read more – isn’t that always the way – but […]Archive
June 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 114 Whangamata
We were not a wealthy family by any means when I was growing up but our dad, through sheer hard work and his contacts, always managed to take us on holiday every year to Whangamata where a mate of his had a block of flats down near the wharf. Our uncle, auntie and cousins from […]Archive
January 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 92 Over The Gully
12/9/1962 The house my dad built was on the edge of town – it literally backed on to farmland in 1962. He bought a section in Hamilton near Hillcrest Normal School and by the time I was five it was finished and we had moved in. There was a big gully down the back of […]Archive
December 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
DJ Setlist: Slices of Heaven – Kiwi Music DJ Set, San Fran, Tuesday, December 29
I love Wellington all year round – but I really love Wellington in that little space between Christmas and New Year’s (actually for most of January, even). The stuffiness of the city goes on holiday, Lambton end is all but shut-down, the office-workers plan their holiday for the year and the rest of the city’s […]Archive
April 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 9 – 24
Okay, slight exaggeration with this one, there’s no way that the TV show 24 ever meant anything close to the world to me – but for one day, or just over (fitting, given the way the show’s premise has it) it was my world. Almost my entire world. A few years ago we took a […]Archive
March 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman