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May 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 53 – Iggy Pop, “Brick By Brick”
Iggy Pop, Brick By Brick, 1990 When I was 15 I loved this. And I loved it because of the music on it, sure. But I loved it, first of all, because I had found the poster in a music store, given it from the counter-staff to hang on my wall. I thought it was […]Archive
April 19, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The New Distancing
Today, I sat behind my son at the movies. They say restrictions are starting to ease – but a few new ones have just been implemented. He and his mate, in the row in front. And me, with no mates sitting behind. Their chaperone, not even that – their Uber driver; oh but hey, please […]Archive
April 5, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Jordan Luck Knows
When Oscar was born there were many phone calls. So, at the end of that most magical day, the birth of our son – a delivery where we’d waited much longer than just the nine specified months to meet him – I get this call. And though my phone had been ringing all day this […]Archive
February 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 290 – Come Together: Abbey Road, Wellington, 2020
I wrote a review of this gig – and it was a nice surprise. I wasn’t sure they could pull it off. The world doesn’t really need any more Beatles tributes – but I say that, and I’ve been to several, so I was probably always going to go to this… And anyway, a good […]Archive
March 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Jordan Luck Cares
When my son was born I got a call from Jordan Luck. He phoned me – because, like many, he’d seen the mention of the new baby online. He had my number because I’d interviewed him just a few months before and he had asked me if I was a dad. I’d told him that […]Archive
December 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 2
Elton John, Don’t Ya Wanna Play This Game No More (Sartorial Eloquence) [Single] (1980) When Oscar was about 18 months old and through until he was three or four I guess – Slow Boat Records was one of his favourite places (it probably still is, truth be told). But as a toddler he was allowed […]Archive
September 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 275 – Queen + Adam Lambert, Wellington, 2020
What a strange year 2020 has turned out to be. It started off weirdly enough. There I am at a fucking Queen concert! (And mostly enjoying it). Next thing there are no concerts at all ever again. No visitors. No tours. And every musician is having a massive spit about loss of income this and […]Archive
August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Movement You Need Is On Your Shoulder
You find wisdom in different places, it’s in the traces of what a person says. Today’s – for example: My 8-year old boy told me that Paul McCartney “might laugh a lot and giggle but he is never ever funny”. So take on board that note, as you make your sandwich, as you eat your […]Archive
August 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 273 – The Bootleg Beatles, Wellington, 2019
The Bootleg Beatles have been paying tribute to The Beatles for 40 years. And I usually think tribute acts are pretty silly and there’s something almost sublimely absurd about being a tribute band for 40 years when the real act lasted less than a decade – but hey, also The Beatles are the greatest. And […]Archive
August 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Standing By
We watched the movie Stand By Me the other day. It was such a favourite film to me – and I hadn’t seen it in maybe 20 years. And I was watching it with the boy. (His first time). He’s maybe just a bit younger than I was when I first saw it. We’ve been […]Archive
August 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman