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August 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 227: Charlotte Graham-McLay
Welcome to episode 227 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]Archive
August 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #126 – Off-Key: Concert For Artistic Freedom, Wellington, 2014
Last year Darren Watson released a satirical song called Planet Key (with a video by Jeremy Jones). It was banned. And so a bunch of Wellington bands got together and put on the Off-Key: Concert for Artistic Freedom show. It was great to be in a pub on a Sunday afternoon with like-minded people; people […]Archive
August 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #125 – Ken Auletta, Auckland, 2015
Ken Auletta spoke as part of this year’s Auckland Writers Festival – the subject was The Media Revolution, so it was a wide-ranging chat really, touching a bit on music and downloading and the collapse/rebuild of that industry, but mostly around TV and print-journalism platforms and the changes there. And on, via the questions, to […]Archive
May 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Auckland Writers Festival: The Media Revolution – Ken Auletta
The Media Revolution: Ken Auletta ASB Theatre/Aotea Centre Saturday, March 16 (4.30pm) For this Auckland Writers Festival event Shayne Currie, editor of The New Zealand Herald was the chair/interviewer – though he never introduced himself. I assume people do that out of modesty, thinking they’re not the important person on stage, but it smacks of […]Archive
March 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 58 – Homegrown, Wellington, 2013
Amazing – I dodged Homegrown last year and it feels like so long ago that I was last there, out of place, wandering about – trying to fill the day, desperately hoping for something in the form of music, settling – because you have to – for a lot less. A lot of less. But […]Archive
February 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman