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October 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Death of Music Journalism: Book Launch Speech

Last week we launched my book of poems – The Death of Music Journalism. This week I’ve just found out it’s the # 1 best-selling title at Unity Books for the current week (thanks of course to that wonderful launch). So here I share the speech I gave at the launch… I’m rather overwhelmed by […]
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September 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Story Behind The Cover of My New Book

Next month I will release my first book of poems. It’s called The Death of Music Journalism – it’s available to pre-order from now and yesterday I shared the cover image on my Facebook page. I mentioned that it was by my good friend the artist Matthew Couper. But what I didn’t get to say […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Artist, Blog, Book, Book Cover, Matt Couper, Matthew Couper, Poems, Poetry, Simon Sweetman, The Death of Music Journalism, The Story Behind The Cover of My New Book, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 168: Roy Dunningham

Welcome to episode 168 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. This is a conversation with Roy Dunningham – he was […]
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December 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 145: Freeman White

Welcome to episode 145 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – 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 to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can get […]
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December 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

My (New) Favourite Piece of Work

We haven’t been able to buy a lot of art recently – is there a more First World Problem sentence than that? – you don’t buy art when you have a wee kid, but you do get lots of new art anyway, fridge paintings galore… Anyway, my Christmas present was a new painting – the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2015, Art, Artwork, Ghost of Electricity, Jon Mcleary, Matthew Couper, Painting, Spines, The Spines, War Stories, Wellington, Writing, Youth ·

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October 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 9 – Matthew Couper

Here’s episode nine of Sweetman Podcast now – my chat with Matthew Couper. Matt’s an artist, Hawke’s Bay born, now Las Vegas based. Matt’s also my oldest friend, in that we’ve known each other since we were three. We went through kindergarten, primary, intermediate and high school along the same strip in Havelock North.
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October 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 816

Lou Reed and John Cale, Songs For Drella (1990) Okay, here’s an album I owned on tape and then CD and now vinyl…there are a few like that, where it’s never enough…it’s always gotta be there. But also, with this one, check it out: A good friend buys me a copy of this as a […]
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August 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Matthew Couper

Matthew Couper is a New Zealand-born artist, now based in Las Vegas, USA. He is back in NZ for a fortnight to attend the Auckland Art Fair with his gallery representative, PAULNACHE before returning back to the USA for solo exhibitions in Riverside, California and Houston, Texas before the end of the year. His work […]
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June 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

My Favourite Piece of Work

I love Songs For Drella – what an album. It’s one of my all-time favourites; you sit down with it and it’s like a movie, a book; you take it in. Lou Reed had suggested audiences do that with his New York album – and that works too, sure; but for me it’s always seemed […]
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November 25, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1742

The Johnnys, Highlights Of A Dangerous Life (1986) My good friend Matthew Couper gave me a dubbed cassette of The Johnnys when we were at high school. Man, I thrashed that album. It was this weird hybrid of tongue-in-cheek country and tongue-in-pint pub-rock and I loved it. Instantly. All it once it was like nothing I’d […]
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