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December 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Solo Career of John Lennon

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. But how to finish with John Lennon? Well there was the […]
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October 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: October 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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September 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: September 2020

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into  it or so… For […]
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August 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Legacy of the Carpenters

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. I’ve long been a fan of the music of the Carpenters and wanted to play some of my favourites, some of the key examples of Karen’s great singing […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2pm, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Carpenters, Jesse Mulligan, Karen Carpenter, Music Feature, National Radio, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Richard Carpenter, RNZ, RNZ Feature: The Legacy of the Carpenters, Spotify, The Legacy of the Carpenters, Tuesday ·

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May 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Bic Runga and Tiny Ruins: NZ Tour (June/July 2015)

Bic Runga and Tiny Ruins will be combining for a tour of New Zealand across June/July this year. A series of seated shows. It should be magnificent. Tiny Ruins’ recent album is a must-hear/must-have and though Bic Runga has been quieter in recent years I saw her open for Neil Finn last year and her […]
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January 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Noelle McCarthy

Noelle McCarthy is the host of Summer Noelle on Radio New Zealand National. Here are five albums she’s loving right now… 1 – Liz Phair, Exile In Guyville: Camilla Martin got me into Liz Phair, when we were at bFM. Help Me Mary was the first of hers I heard, I think, it would have […]
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