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October 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Litcrawl 2017: Bringing It All Back Home
Litcrawl takes place over the weekend of November 10-12 in various venues across Wellington. And one of the sessions I’m most looking forward to is Bringing It All Back Home, part of the first phase of the crawl, 6pm at MEOW on Saturday, November 11. This session is about the greatest songwriter of the modern […]Archive
June 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Speech
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Lecture/Speech is a beautiful thing. It’s already been shared so many times and quoted from. I wanted to include it here – as just another place where you might find it. I’ve listened to it through twice already and will be returning to it again. And again. Everything about it is wonderful – […]Archive
November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Heroes Live: #4 – Bob Dylan
You will have to trust that I was going to write about Bob Dylan anyway. It’s time to mark him down in my files just as I have with Neil Young and Mike Nock and Paul Simon (and you can click those links to read the entries about each of them) in my series “Heroes […]Archive
November 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The ‘There’s Wally!’ of Rock-Docs: Bono
He’s like Where’s Wally? Except you know exactly where he is; you see him straight away: those glasses, that black leather jacket, the dulcet tones, always telling you that this band changed his life or those words became the ones he studied… He’s the There’s Wally! of music documentaries. And I’m sure you know who […]Archive
October 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Suzanne Vega: Lover, Beloved – Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers
Suzanne Vega Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers Perpetual Sounds There’s something calming, soothing, reassuring about Suzanne Vega’s voice. That’s been the constant in a career of solid-to-brilliant albums where she’s diversified hugely from that initial “folk-revival” template. From the icy electric guitar treatments on her first album through the 80s-beatnik phase, […]Archive
May 18, 2015 by Simon Sweetman