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November 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Enrico Pieranunzi: Frame

Enrico Pieranunzi Frame Cam Jazz When I last caught up with Enrico Pieranunzi’s playing it was in trio form, a live gig that captured one of drum-legend Paul Motian’s final performances behind the kit. It was a devastatingly good set – one I revisit, but beyond that I’ve forgotten to check in on Peiranunzi, an […]
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July 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

I Don’t Know Much About (How To Do) Art But I Know What I Like (Trying To Do): In Praise Of Doodling The Fuck Out Of Some Paper, Yo!

Late last year I started playing the drums again – after at least six or seven years without touching the sticks and even longer since I took it seriously in any sort of practicing-regime way. Earlier this year I bought a basketball and started making trips to any hoop I might find to try my […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Biro, CRAFT, Doodling, Drawing, Felt, I Don’t Know Much About (How To Do) Art But I Know What I Like (Trying To Do), I Don’t Know Much About (How To Do) Art But I Know What I Like (Trying To Do): In Praise Of Doodling The Fuck Out Of Some Paper, In Praise Of Doodling The Fuck Out Of Some Paper Yo!, Marker, Painting, Pastels, Pencil, Pens, Sketchpad, yo!, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Art Appreciation

There was a painting down the road in the local thrift store – $45. My dad spotted it on a trip last year. He said, “that looks like that one you’ve got – the same birds” I stopped myself mid eyeroll because he was right this time. It was the same artist. And it was […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Art Appreciation, Painting, Poem, Poem: Art Appreciation ·

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December 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 198: Fifi Colston

Welcome to episode 198 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
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September 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 248

Peter Fonda, Peter Fonda (2018) I have a very kind friend based in Australia who has hooked me up with some interesting vinyl from talented, if lesser known players. His philosophy is simple: connecting people with music, sharing his tastes, helping out his mates – his mates in bands and his mates that like music. […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Art, Artwork, Aussie, Australia, Australian, Band, Fonda, Friend, Indie, Inner Sleever, LP, Ltd Ed, Painting, Peter, Peter Fonda, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 248, Vinyl, You'd Know Best ·

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December 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 145: Freeman White

Welcome to episode 145 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can get […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Anchor/FM, Apple, Apple Podcasts, Art, Artist, Chat, City Councils, Commissions, Conversation, Film, Freeman White, Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, HB, Interview, iTunes, La Petite Chocolat, Landscape, Matthew Couper, Movies, Napier, Overcast, Painter, Painting, Peter Jackson, Phil Judd, Podcast, Portraiture, Regan Gentry, Roy Dunningham, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 145, Sweetman Podcast # 145: Freeman White, T Leaf T, The Hobbit, What We Do In The Shadows, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – China’s Van Goghs (October 8)

The Wellington Film Society rolls on. Last week it was Mustang. This week it’s back to documentary, with China’s Van Goghs. One of the most affecting moments in China’s Van Goghs unfolds in a small art gallery, where the documentary’s protagonists and their friends eagerly gather to watch the 1956 Vincent van Gogh biopic Lust for Life. Their […]
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June 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 207 One Day In The Life

Taking a day off today That pain I get has amped up again Nothing I can do about it Just drink water and wait it out Might try and do a bit more on this painting It’s coming along
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Accident, Art, Ghost, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Help!, Helping, Jon Mcleary, Karma, Newtown, One Day In The Life, Painting, Spines, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 207 One Day In The Life, The Spines, Trafffic, War Stories, War Stories # 207, Wellington, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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 […]
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May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 115 – Fane Flaws

Welcome to episode 115 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Fane Flaws. This was a great conversation – and it was a long time in the making. I hadn’t met Fane, we’d corresponded, I grew up listening to Blerta and The Crocodiles, was […]
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May 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts

Well, he’s a cricket fan, so he’ll enjoy the mention of a “double century” – but one thing I learned a while back is that you have to pick your moments and celebrate your own milestones in this writing-online caper. You have to turn up. And turn up. And turn up again. And if you […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Band, Blog, Bob Dylan, Bruno Lawrence, Chris Knox, Cricket, Family, Films, Ghost, Ghost posts, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Heart, Jon Mcleary, Manslaughter, Movies, Music, Novel, On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts, Painting, Peter McLeavey, Spines, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight, The Nightwatchman Clicks His Flashlight: On Jon McLeary’s Double Century of Ghost Posts, The Spines, War Stories, Wellington, Writing, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 205 Stop the World

I think it took me over ten years to write this song. I know I started on the verses in 1980 after the demise of Negative Theatre. I’d read an interview with Steely Dan where they talked about mu major chords and I played the A, E, A, D, C#m, D, A, E, A pattern […]
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