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December 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 96 – Andrew Johnstone from Rip It Up Radio Talks To Me

Welcome to episode 96 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. It’s the summer holidays – I hope you’re enjoying your break. The podcast will continue weekly but for this episode it’s a dip into the archives, in a way. This is a conversation where I was interviewed- a couple […]

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August 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 29 – Sylvie Simmons

Welcome to episode 29 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a chat with Sylvie Simmons – that’s Sylvie Simmons the music writer, Leonard Cohen biographer and MOJO staff writer, legendary rock writer who was on the tour bus with Black Sabbath and Van Halen, who published the first interview […]

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September 22, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 12 Greil Marcus

I’m currently halfway through a book called The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs – it’s the latest (brand new) book from Greil Marcus. Impossible to chart rock’n’roll’s history through ten songs you say. Well, not if you’re Greil Marcus. Fortunately for him (and us) no one else is Greil Marcus. There is only one […]

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April 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Graham Reid

Graham Reid is a freelance writer, journalist and author of two award-winning travel books. He lectures part-time at the University of Auckland’s School of Music and hosts his own music/arts/travel website www.elsewhere.co.nz Here are five albums he’s loving right now (aside from those under Favourite Five Recent CDs at Elsewhere)… 1 – The 5.6.7.8’s, Bomb […]