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April 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Of The Worst NZ Songs You’ve Had To Hear Way Too Often

Opshop’s song, One Day has to be a contender. Ew – this “expression of you” sentiment is cloying at best. At worst it’s hand-in-your-testicles, I-am-no-longer-a-man songwriting. To put it bluntly, it’s James Blunt – at his worst. There should be no way the members of Opshop can hold their head high after this song; it’s the negation of why they got […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Always On My Mind, Aotearoa, Awful, Blindspott, Five Of The Worst NZ Songs You’ve Had To Hear Way Too Often, Funding, Green Light, Kiwi, Lorde, Minuit, NZ, NZ On Air, One Day, Opshop, Phlex, Terrible, Tiki Taane, Worst, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

I Was Architecture Dancing When They Were 12: Remembering When Autozamm Wrote A Song About Me, Made A Video With Some Fat Goof Eating ‘Sweets’ To Get Their Point Across Then Promptly Deleted It When The Backlash Hit

It was weird. I wrote about how this band, Autozamm, seemingly a band (with a shit name) that no one gave a fuck about. I wrote about how they’d been funded and funded, they’d score so much money from the Govt-purse and done 5/8s of fuckall with it, max. They were garbage. But they kept […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autozamm, Blog, Funding, I Was Architecture Dancing When They Were 12: Remembering When Autozamm Wrote A Song About Me, Made A Video With Some Fat Goof Eating ‘Sweets’ To Get Their Point Across Then Promptly Deleted It When The Backlash Hit, NZ On Air, The Joke That Is NZ On Air Funding, The Review, Video ·

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September 4, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Guest Post – Is That It? by Rob Mayes

Brendan Smyth, Head of Music and Radio for New Zealand on Air (NZOA) for 26 years has announced his intention to relinquish his position. NZOA has been an organisation plagued with lacklustre results and dominated by a single-minded approach for the entirety of its existence. Smyth’s exit offers the opportunity to reflect on the mistakes […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Brendan Smyth, Guest Blog – Is That It? by Rob Mayes, Guest Post – Is That It? by Rob Mayes, Kiwi FM, Kiwi Music, New Zealand Music, NZ, NZ On Air, Sounds Like Us ·

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February 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Brendan Smyth

Brendan Smyth is the NZ Music Manager at broadcast funding agency, NZ On Air.  He has been at NZ On Air since 1989 and before that, he was 10 years doing the music job at the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council.  So… he’s an old bugger, alright… ! He’s lucky because in his job he […]
Posted in Blog, Special Guests · Tagged Brendan Smyth, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, NZ Music, NZ On Air ·

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