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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 189 Holloway Road
We rented it for a start – a small house on Holloway Road and a piece of history. Old George, who lived a few houses down and whose father had famously lived well past a hundred, told me that Winston McCarthy had grown up in our house and it had also been a shop at […]Archive
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 188 Go To New York
Whatever I write Won’t necessarily make any sense I wouldn’t lie to you And I didn’t make it last week For whatever reason No one really noticed and I couldn’t explain There wasn’t anyone else there to blame Since then we travelled south and back And had our little adventures I found myself playing the […]Archive
November 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187 The Things That Stay (Bloodmonster Part Two)
I think like most songwriters – I have my favourites amongst my own songs. In my case they are the ones I feel will still be around after my band and I have shuffled off. They tend to be the songs that other people take to their hearts – almost like I’m out of the […]Archive
November 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 186 Bloodmonster
We’ve been thinking about finally releasing the Bloodmonster album on CD. We recorded it about ten years ago when the band was a very different animal. For the previous few years Les and I had played with a spate of different drummers who all brought their own touch to the band. The latest was Jorden […]Archive
October 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 183 It Hurts to Laugh and Hurts to Cry Two
Day One: Sunday I’d been sick for a couple of weeks and was shit-scared of what might actually be wrong with me. In the end it was Malky and Truda that made the difference and they helped me over the road to the A&E at Wellington Hospital. There were a lot of questions from the […]Archive
October 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary #182 In Your Wound
It hurts to laugh and hurts to cry Nearly sixty years on the planet and this is the first time I’ve ever needed to be in hospital for my own health I did spend months in Dunedin Central at my son’s bedside when he was in a halo so I am quite familiar with the […]Archive
September 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 80 – Hannah Fraser & Jon McLeary (Spines)
Welcome to episode 80 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a little different – it’s a chat with Hannah and Jon from the Spines, specifically, a track-by-track walk-through of their new album, Epidural. It’s the first album released by the Spines for 30 years, Hannah is […]Archive
August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman