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June 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 174: Matt Hyde (Beastwars)

Welcome to episode 174 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. Matt Hyde is the lead singer of Beastwars. He was […]

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June 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 65: The Stranglers – “Rattus Norvegicus”

The late 1970s/early 1980s, the punk and post-punk, that’s the era/s and genre/s were I’m going to come up short in this challenge – and it’s the stuff I love; but I guess, age-wise, it’s a case of loving it now more so than then. So this is where you get situations like this: I’d […]

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November 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 37 – Robert Forster

Welcome to episode 37 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) is a hero. I wasn’t going to let a chance to record him for the podcast slip by. We ended up in a café – where I bought him a coffee and a sugar-free cake (and later he […]

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October 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Black Mountain (October 1, Wgtn)

Black Mountain Bodega Saturday, October 1 Canadian psych/prog-rockers Black Mountain were an ominous and elating presence on stage with their first New Zealand visit. Four albums and ten years into a career that also includes a soundtrack, EPs and numerous side-projects and seems compelled by the separate histories of folk, prog and metal the band […]