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May 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts

Well, he’s a cricket fan, so he’ll enjoy the mention of a “double century” – but one thing I learned a while back is that you have to pick your moments and celebrate your own milestones in this writing-online caper. You have to turn up. And turn up. And turn up again. And if you […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Band, Blog, Bob Dylan, Bruno Lawrence, Chris Knox, Cricket, Family, Films, Ghost, Ghost posts, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Heart, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Movies, Music, Novel, On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts, Painting, Peter McLeavey, Spines, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight, The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts, The Spines, War Stories, Wellington, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 192 2017

epidural ˌɛpɪˈdjʊər(ə)l/Submit Adjective – ANATOMY on or around the dura mater, in particular (of an anaesthetic) introduced into the space around the dura mater of the spinal cord.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2017), A Ghost Is Born, Album, Album Review, Anatomy, Art, Blog, Epidural, Ghost, Gig, Gigs, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Hannah, Herman Manslaughter, Hospital, Jesse Mulligan, Jon, Jon Mcleary, Leg, Manslaughter, Music, Nick Bollinger, Painting, Philosophy, Podcast, Review, RNZ, San Fran, South Island, Spines, Subdural, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 192 2017, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 192, War Stories by Jon McLeary # 192, Write, Writing, Year in Review ·

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April 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 156 Three Years of Weeks

156 divided by 52 equals 3 It’s the longest I’ve ever held a job I did have a week off when my computer went bung about six months ago Each week I seem to be able to come up with something or it presents itself But every now and then I’ll just want to throw […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 3, 3 Year Anniversary, 3rd Anniversary, Art, Autobiography, Column, Drawing, Facebook, Fiction, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Guitar, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Music, Painting, Songwriting, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 156, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 156 Three Years of Weeks, The Spines, Three, Three Years of Weeks, War Stories, War Stories # 156, Weekly, Wellington, Writing ·

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March 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 155 Linz

I first met Linzy when Louise brought him to a Spines practice It would have been 1981 and we were rehearsing in Rob’s front room in Mt.Victoria Louise was a postie and she just dropped him off there with us I was pretty sure I’d seen him at gigs – the whirling dervish guy dancing […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Acting, Art, Dunedin, Ghost, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Linz, Linzy, Louise, Manslaughter, Mt. Victoria, Music, Novel, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Songs, Songwriting, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 155 Linz, The Spines, The Terrace, War Stories, War Stories # 155, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Wgtn, Writing ·

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November 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 138 Love, Pt. 1

I became obsessed with her Every little bit I knew or thought I could trust Is it even possible to fall in love in this way For a moment there I really thought I had fallen in again A friend on social media and I couldn’t get her out of my head It was sudden […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1970s, 1980s, Art, Dating, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Love, Love - Part 1, Manslaughter, Music, Part 1, Part One, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 138 Love, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 138 Love Pt. 1, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 138, Wellington, Writing ·

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October 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 130 The Podcast

Simon, Katy and Oscar made me very welcome in their home – like family It can be very difficult to hear oneself back When you listen to yourself on tape I mean My singing voice is part of what I do and I have no bones with it It took a lot of years But […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Carving, Column, Conversation, Discussion, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Interview, Jon Mcleary, Katy, Life, Manslaughter, Music, Novel, Oscar, Podcast, Simon Sweetman, Songwriting, Spines, Sweetman Podcast, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 130 The Podcast, The Podcast, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 130, Wellington, Writing ·

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September 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 33 – Jon McLeary

Welcome to episode 33 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This is a conversation with Jon McLeary, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Spines. Regular readers of this site – and/or Jon’s Facebook pages will know him for his weekly contributions here as the writer of The Ghost of Electricity: […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Art, Episode 33, Hamilton, Interview, L'affare, Manslaughter, Negative Theatre, Novel, Painting, Phantom Billstickers, Podcast, Sculpture, Simon Sweetman, Spines, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 33 – Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity, The Spines, War Stories, Wellington, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·

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February 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 100 Birth

It was meant to be a home-birth. 1984 and Michelle was pregnant – we moved into the top floor of this huge old warehouse space on Wakefield Street that was impossible to heat. They were strange days – the Spines was on hold while Wendy and Ross went off to other bands for a time […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 100, Angus, Art, Birth, Century, Daughter, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Home Birth, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Music, Novel, Novelist, One Hundred, Painting, Parenting, Son, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 100 Birth, War Stories, War Stories # 100, Wellington Hospital, Writing ·

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November 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jon McLeary

Jon Mcleary is the creator of The Spines, check them out on Bandcamp. They will be playing two shows this coming weekend with Vorn and The Julie Lamb band as part of The Bungee Tour. He is also an artist, author of the novel Manslaughter and you can read his weekly War Stories here at Off The Tracks […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Apocalypse Now, Art, Dracula, Film Review, Films, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Jon McLeary, Frankenstein, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Movies, Painting, Seinfeld, Spines, Taxi Driver, The Concert For Bangladesh, The Ghost of Electricity, The Hobbit, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The King Of Comedy, The Office, The Spines, War Stories ·

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November 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 83 Punch

It’s kind of the forbidden song – about domestic violence and eating your family and it’s set in that post-apocalyptic world that Russell Hoban created in his novel Riddley Walker. That book and the strange degraded English language he used to tell its story had a deep effect on me in the early 80s. There […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 12", Art, B-side, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Ian Morris, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Music, Novel, Punch, Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban, Single, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 83 Punch, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 83, War Stories by Jon McLeary, Wellington, Writing, Your Body Stays ·

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June 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 63 The Pixel Art

When I came to rewrite my 80s manuscript Manslaughter early this millennium, I scored an old IBM pc that was being biffed out by my partner, Michelle’s work. It was so much easier than the typewriter I had drafted it on. I had a painting in mind for the cover and I bought a scanner […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Computer, Computer Art, Guest Blog, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Music, Photoshop, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 63 The Pixel Art, The Pixel Art, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 63, Wellington, Writing ·

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May 26, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 9 Chris

One of the few typos in my novel Manslaughter was on the back cover. Inkweed had got Chris Knox to write a nice review but the printer missed out his surname – “…a real page-turner – Chris…” Later that year I was out and about with Jane Bowron and we ran into him after seeing […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bodega, Chris, Chris Knox, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Ovation, Tall Dwarfs, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon Mcleary # 9 Chris, The Spines, Toy Love, War Stories, War Stories # 8, War Stories # 9 ·
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