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August 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 127 – Ray Ahipene-Mercer

Welcome to episode 127 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. I first met Ray Mercer some 15+ years ago. I had met him through a friend. And then, when I was commissioned to write my first professional piece for the then-Evening Post, a housing feature, of all things, I […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 1960s, Chat, Conservation, Conversation, Council, Councillor, Dedikation, Environmentalist, Guitar, Guitar Maker, Guitarist, Guitars, Interview, Le Petite Chocolat, Led Zeppelin, Luthier, Musician, Orchestra Wellington, Politician, Politics, Ray Ahipene-Mercer, Ray Mercer, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 127, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 127 – Ray Ahipene-Mercer, T Leaf T, The Dedikation, Upper Hutt, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 124 – Bill Direen

Welcome to episode 124 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was chuffed to finally get to have a good long yarn with Bill Direen; to meet him even. We’d never met though we had corresponded. I had reached out to him a while back to podcast – and […]
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July 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper

Welcome to episode 123 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Ali Harper is someone I met for the first time earlier this year. I told her I wanted to podcast her – because I knew her work. I had heard some of her albums, seen her on the TV […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged "Singer", Act, Acting, Actor, Ali, Ali Harper, Chat, Chess, Christchurch, Circa Theatre, Comedy, Conversation, Court Theatre, Dancing With The Stars, Diva, Divas, Drama, Drama School, ep.123, Fortune Theatre, Harper, http://www.aliharper.com/, Interview, Kids, Le Petite Chocolat, Mother, Musical Theatre, Musician, NZ, Parent, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Sing, Singing, Songs For Nobodies, Student, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper, T Leaf T, Teacher, Theatre, Tour, TV, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys ·

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June 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 122 – Pip Adam

Welcome to episode 122 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Given her proximity to where the podcast takes place – she lives four or five houses down the road from me – it feels like it’s taken forever to get Pip Adam on the podcast. It didn’t take winning […]
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June 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast Turns Three: Thank You To All!

Sweetman Podcast, my weekly interview/chat podcast (new episodes up every Friday) has just turned three years old. I learned, long ago, in the blogging world you must celebrate your own birthdays or wins or whatever. So, well done me. Well done and thanks to the guests! Well done and thank you to anyone that has […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 3rd Birthday, Actors, artists, Audio, Blog, Chat, Conversation, Directors, https://offthetracks.co.nz/category/blog/podcasts/, Interview, L'affare, Le Petite Chocolat, Links, Musicians, Phantom Billstickers, Podcast, Press Patron, PressPatron, Sweetman Podcast Turns Three, Sweetman Podcast Turns Three: Thank You To All!, T Leaf T, Thank You, Thank You To All!, Thanks, Thankyou, Writers, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 121 – Barry Saunders

Welcome to episode 121 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I reckon I first met Barry Saunders some 15 years ago or so. He used to come in for chats in the music store where I worked. He was a new dad. His little girl – now a university […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged "Singer", Americana, Barry Saunders, Chat, Christchurch, Conversation, Country, David Long, Delaney Davidson, ep.121, Episode 121, Hands Of My Heart, Interview, Kiwi, Le Petite Chocolat, Long Shadow, Maureen, NZ, One Red Morning, Podcast, Poet, Poetry, Rockinghorse, Sam Hunt, Simon Sweetman, Singer/Songwriter, Songs, Songwriter, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 121, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 121 – Barry Saunders, T Leaf T, Taranaki, The Interislander, The Only Game In Town, The Warratahs, The Weatherman, Travel, Warratahs, Wayne Mason, Wellington, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 120 – Sam Cutler

Welcome to episode 120 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Sam Cutler was tour manager for The Rolling Stones during their infamous 1969 tour of America, he went on to work for The Grateful Dead. You can see him in a small handful of documentaries focussed on that era […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 1969, A Long Strange Trip, Altamont, Australia, Author, Books, Charlie Watts, Chat, Conversation, Documentary, England, ep. 120, Europe '72, Festival Express, Gimme Shelter, Grateful Dead, Hells Angels, https://samcutlersbooks.com/, International, Interview, Jerry Garcia, Keith Richards, Le Petite Chocolat, Manager, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Podcast, Roadie, Sam Cutler, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 120, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 120– Sam Cutler, T Leaf T, Talk, The Dead, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Tour Manager, Tours, UK, Writer, Writing, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, You Can't Always Get What You Want ·

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June 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 119 – Sarah Bradley

Welcome to episode 119 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I caught up with Sarah Bradley. We worked together on the Good Morning TV Show. I was one of the regular music reviewers there for about seven or eight years. Sarah (along with co-host Brendon Pongia) came on board […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged "Singer", #119, Ageism, Auckland, Avalon, Brendon Pongia, Broadcaster, Chat, Converation, Donny Osmond, Editor, ep.119, Episode 119, Good Morning, Hamilton, Interview, iTunes, Journalism, Le Petite Chocolat, Magazine, Musicals, New York, Newsreader, Off The Tracks, Podcast, Politics, PressPatron, Radio, Reporter, Sarah Bradley, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Student, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 119, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 119 – Sarah Bradley, T Leaf T, Talk, Travel, TV, TV Host, TVNZ, Wellington, Writing, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118 – Chris Tse

Welcome to episode 118 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a conversation with Chris Tse. He’s a Wellington poet. He’s done some acting and music-making too but it’s for his books How To Be Dead In A Year of Snakes and the very recently released He’s So […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acting, Book, Books, Chat, Chris Tse, Conversation, Drama, ep.118, Episode One Hundred And Eighteen, Family, Films, He's So MASC, Heather Nova, How To Be Dead In A Year of Snakes, https://christse.co.nz/, https://soundcloud.com/off-the-tracks/sweetman-podcast-episode-118-chris-tse, Identity, Interview, iTunes, Le Petite Chocolat, Liz Phair, Movies, Music, Plays, Podcast, Poem, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Portishead, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 118 – Chris Tse, T Leaf T, Theatre, Tori Amos, Wellington, Writer, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·

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May 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 117 – Emily Fairlight

Welcome to episode 117 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Emily Fairlight. She’s a Wellington-based singer/songwriter and poet. She’s recently released the fantastic Mother of Gloom album. And before that, a few years ago now, there was a self-titled debut.
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acoustic, America, Americana, Calexico, Chat, Conversatio, Emily Fairlight, ep.117, Episode 117, French For Rabbits, Interview, Joshua Radin, Le Petite Chocolat, Leonard Cohen, Lucinda Williams, Lyttelton, Lyttelton Records, Mother of Gloom, Natalie Merchant, NZ Tour, Podcast, Poet, Poetry, San Fran, Simon Sweetman, Singer/Songwriter, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 117, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 117 – Emily Fairlight, T Leaf T, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey

Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]
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May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 115 – Fane Flaws

Welcome to episode 115 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Fane Flaws. This was a great conversation – and it was a long time in the making. I hadn’t met Fane, we’d corresponded, I grew up listening to Blerta and The Crocodiles, was […]
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