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December 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 243: Murray Cammick

Welcome to episode 243 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchor, Apple, Art School, Auckland, bFM, Chat, Conversation, DJ, DJing, Exhibition, Fast Cars, Funk, George FM, Interview, Interviewer, Interviews, Journalism, Lan dof the Good Groove, LP, Magazines, Murray Cammick, Music Journalism, Music Journalist, Phoner, Photographer, Photographs, photos, Photospace Gallery, Podcast, Records, Rip It Up, Shake!, Simon Sweetman, Soul Music, Soundcloud, Southside, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 243, Sweetman Podcast # 243: Murray Cammick, Vinyl, Wildside, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: I Interviewed Rick Allen, Drummer For Def Leppard

I interviewed Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard. My main worry, when they told me he was on his way down for a chat, was whether he’d lost his left or right arm in that horrific car crash. Would he be able to shake my hand – just normally? Or would he invert the other […]
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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello

Welcome to episode 242 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Alcohol, Anchor, Apple, Author, Beer, Beyond The Vines, Book, Books, Brewed, Chat, Conversation, Craft Beer, Distributor, Educator, ep.242, Hospitality, Importer, Interview, Jules Van Costello, Kiwi, NZ, Podcast, Promo, Promoter, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 242, Sweetman Podcast # 242: Jules Van Costello, Sweetman Podcast: Jules Van Costello, Wine, Wine Industry, Writer, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 241: John Newton

Welcome to episode 241 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Academic, Acast, Anchor, Anchor FM, Apple, Australia, Burns Fellowship, Chat, Christchurch, Conversation, Country Music, Dunedin, Escape Path Lighting, Family Songbook, Hard Frost, Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945, Interview, James K. Baxter, John Newton, Music, Novel, Podcast, Podcaster, Podcasts, Poem, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Richmond Fontaine, Songs, Songwriter, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 241, Sweetman Podcast # 241: John Newton, Sweetman Podcast: John Newton, Tales from the Angler’s Eldorado, The Delines, The Double Rainbow, The Lives of The Poets, The Overdogs, The Tenderizers, University, Verse, VUP, Wellington, Willy Vlautin, Writer, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 240: Lucy Roche

Welcome to episode 240 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchorfm, Apple, Chat, Class Comics, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Club, Comedy Quest, Comic, Conversation, Covid-19, Fringe Bar, Interview, Lockdown, Lucy Roche, Open Mic, Podcast, RAW, School, Sex Worker, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Stand-Up Comic, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 240, Sweetman Podcast # 240: Lucy Roche, T Leaf T, The Fringe, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering The Time I Asked Rowland S. Howard If He Had Any Plans To Tour And He Said He Doubted It Since He Was Dying – A Month Later He Wasn’t Even Close To Wrong

In another lifetime (his!) I spoke to Rowland S. Howard. I didn’t know it at the time – neither did he, though he had far more of an idea than I did – he’d be dead in less than two months. He was dying when he made his last album, the brilliant Pop Crimes. I’ve […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Australia, Australian, Blog, Boys Next Door, Chat, Conversation, Dead, Dying, Interview, Nick Cave, Pop Crimes, Remembering The Time I Asked Rowland S. Howard If He Had Any Plans To Tour And He Said He Doubted It Since He Was Dying – A Month Later He Wasn’t Even Close To Wrong, Rowland Howard, Rowland S. Howard, Teenage Snuff Film, The Birthday Party, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 238: Alec Bathgate

Welcome to episode 238 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged A Flying Nun Compilation, Acast, Anchor, Apple, Auckland, Bathgate, Chat, ChCh, Chris Knox, Christchurch, Conversation, Earthquake, Flying Nun, Gold Lame, Guitar, Interview, iTunes, Knox, LP, Music, Phantom Dots, Phil Judd, Podcast, Record, Simon Sweetman, Solo, Soundcloud, Split Enz, Spotify, Stroke, Sweetman Podcast # 238:, Sweetman Podcast # 238: Alec Bathgate, Sweetman Podcast: Alec Bathgate, T Leaf T, Tall Dwarfs, The Enemy, The Indifferent Velvet Void, The Monkees, Toy Love, Vinyl, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 237: Jackson Nieuwland

Welcome to episode 237 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchor, Anchor FM, Apple, Basketball, Bookstore, Chat, Compound Press, Conversation, Depression, Discussion, ep.237, Fluidity, Foodcourt, Gender, Hip-Hop, I AM A HUMAN BEING, IIML, Interview, iTunes, Jackson Nieuwland, Journey, Librarian, Library, Mental Health, Non-Binary, Podcast, Podcatcher, Poet, Poetry, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 237, Sweetman Podcast # 237: Jackson Nieuwland, Sweetman Podcast: Jackon Neiuwland, Wellington, Writer, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 236: Claire Mabey (Verb Festival)

Welcome to episode 236 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchor, Andrew Laking, Apple, Bob Dylan, Book Reviewer, Books, Chat, Claire Mabey, Conversation, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Event, Event Management, Event Planner, Events, Interview, LitCrawl, Literary Events, LitQuake, Live, NZ Festival, Planning, Podcast, Politics, Readers, RNZ, Soundcloud, Spotify, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 236, Sweetman Podcast # 236: Claire Mabey (Verb Festival), Sweetman Podcast: Claire Mabey, T Leaf T, Talk, Verb, Verb Community, Verb Festival, Wellington, Writers, Writers and Readers, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Billie Holiday (w/ introduction by Khanya Mtshali) Melville House I’m a big fan of The Last Interview series (there’s more being added every time I check in – including, I see, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg one is being readied).
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Book, Book Review, Compilation, Interview, Interviews, Jazz, Khanya Mtshali, Other Conversations, Print, Radio, The Last Interview, The Last Interview and Other Conversations, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Interview: The Death of Music Journalism

I’m often on RNZ to talk about music – but the boot was on the other foot just the other day when I was interviewed about my debut poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. The book, published by The Cuba Press, is available through all good book shops now and launches tomorrow, Sunday, October […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Book, Book Launch, Interview, Jesse Mulligan, Live On Air, Meow, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ National, Reading, RNZ, RNZ Interview, RNZ Interview: The Death of Music Journalism, The Cuba Press, The Death of Music Journalism, Wellington, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: How Not To

There’s a clip I watch on YouTube and I’m not joking when I say I look at it most weeks.  It’s a film-student interviewing  John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actor, American Beauty, Film, How Not To, Interview, John Cusack, Poem, Poem: How Not To, Star ·
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