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August 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 128 – Chris Familton
Welcome to episode 128 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Chris Familton is a Sydney-based, Kiwi-born writer, DJ and musician. He has the music sites Doubtful Sounds and Post to Wire where he reviews, interviews, blogs, makes suggestions and recommendations, creates playlists – you know, all the things…Archive
July 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Al Fraser / Phil Boniface: Ponguru
Al Fraser / Phil Boniface Ponguru Rattle Al Fraser and Phil Boniface first worked together some 20 years ago, both were studying jazz performance at Massey University’s Conservatorium of Music – now known as the NZ School of Music. They’ve taken different paths since – Al is now one of the leading performers of traditional […]Archive
July 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 389
Bob Dylan, Masterpieces (1978) You just know what you know – especially when there was no internet. So all I knew was that Masterpieces was a life-changer. Possibly the most important album I ever heard. It opened all the doors. In fact it blew them right off their hinges. And if it was only supposed […]Archive
July 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 123 – Ali Harper
Welcome to episode 123 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Ali Harper is someone I met for the first time earlier this year. I told her I wanted to podcast her – because I knew her work. I had heard some of her albums, seen her on the TV […]Archive
June 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Skinny Hobos: Skinny Hobos
Skinny Hobos Skinny Hobos Skinny Hobos Here’s the self-titled debut full-lengther by Auckland-based rock/metal/riffers Skinny Hobos. It’s good too. Charging out of the gates with Sevenatenine, which opens in a Sabbath-meets-Alice In Chains way, with a bit of the windswept stoner rock of the Queens/Kyuss nature before losing the meandering coolness and lurching on over […]Archive
June 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 121 – Barry Saunders
Welcome to episode 121 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I reckon I first met Barry Saunders some 15 years ago or so. He used to come in for chats in the music store where I worked. He was a new dad. His little girl – now a university […]Archive
June 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: May 2018
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 a couple of years into […]Archive
May 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 206 Split Enz
I saw them at some key gigs in their strange career. At the Great Ngarauawahia Music Festival when they were Split Ends. I was fourteen and like most people there to see Black Sabbath but I do remember they were interesting. Dressed pretty much like everybody else there – a much different spectacle than what […]Archive
May 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tour Announcement: Bob Dylan to play TWO NZ Shows (August, 2018)
Bob Dylan will play Auckland’s Spark Arena on Sunday, August 26 and Christchurch’s Horncastle Arena on Tuesday, August 28. These will be Dylan’s first New Zealand dates since 2014 and the first time he’s played Auckland since 2011. The Dylan Neverending Tour reaches Australia in August and then down to New Zealand.Archive
May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Film Preview: Swagger of Thieves
Swagger of Thieves – the documentary feature about Head Like A Hole made its debut last year at the Wellington Film Festival (see here for my review). The independently produced and distributed film will now have a limited run in theatres across New Zealand from May 17. See here and here for more details. And see here for […]Archive
April 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman