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April 30, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Garageland (April 29, Wellington)

Garageland: Last Exit To Garageland 25th Anniversary Tour San Fran; Wellington Friday, April 29 Contrary to what you might think, given my obvious size and shape, I was always a fast runner. At high school I was more athletic, very busy with sports and though I was big I was quick. In the relay running […]
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October 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Scheduling Apocalypse, Now

Our apocalypse arrived by meeting and dragged for days and there were so many experts all of a sudden, most of them weren’t even on the clock, but even that – and the apocalypse! – couldn’t stop them. So the days (and nights) continued their drag and people continued to flaunt their version of nearly-normal […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Coronavirus, Covid, Covid-19, Now, Pandemic, Poem, Scheduling Apocalypse, Scheduling Apocalypse Now ·

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August 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Lockdown Hiatus

For just the third term – in six years – Sweetman Podcast is having a cuppa tea, and then a lie-down. Level 4 lockdown doesn’t make the kind of podcasting I do at all possible. Plenty of podcasts in the sea, maybe far too many – and a lot of them are so good at delivering video […]
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May 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt Made Out of Sound Palilalia I love Bill Orcutt. He hits at the guitar in a way that makes me think of heroes like Marc Ribot and Sonny Sharrock. There’s wildness in his way – he tears at the strings and the ugly side of a beautiful melody is instantly […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt: Made Out of Sound, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Drums, Free Jazz, Guitar, Improv, Improvisation, Instrumental, Lockdown, Made Out of Sound, Pandemic, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Luke Adam Hawker: Together

Together Luke Adam Hawker Kyle Books The pandemic took its toll – and is taking it still and because we survived lockdown (and it was brief) many of us have moved on and back to our lives and it was all just a mild inconvenience. We were lucky. And we were supported by our government […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Art, Book, Book Review, Comic, Coronavirus, Covid, Covid-19, Design, Family, Graphic, Graphic Novel, Lockdown, Luke Adam Hawker, Luke Adam Hawker: Together, Pandemic, Together, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Best of 24 – 2020: DVD

WWE Best of 24 – 2020 WWE Madman This best of 24 DVD set collects up a few capsule documentaries from the WWE Network’s show 24 – the last couple of years the network has been anthologised with a compilation set cherry-picking some of the best content.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, 24, Best of 24, Covid-19, Drew McIntyre, DVD, DVD Review, Lockdown, Pandemic, Pro-Wrestling, R Truth, The Edge, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Wrestlemania, Wrestling, WWE, WWE Best of 24 - 2020, WWE Best of 24 - 2020: DVD, WWE Network ·

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April 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 282 – Laurie Anderson: Here Comes The Ocean, Wellington, 2020

It was only last year – and already it seems so long ago. It was that rare occasion of the Festival planning some culture-clash thing and getting it absolutely right. Laurie Anderson was a guest curator – she did a bunch of shows and talks and it all culminated in this performance (click there to […]
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April 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Mali Mali: Kill and Throw (ep)

Mali Mali Kill and Throw (ep) Home Alone Records Ben Tolich has been recording (and touring) as Mali Mali for the last decade. A handful of albums, each its own insular world, each almost impossibly perfect as finite statement – a set of songs that could have been imagined up in isolation without ever hearing […]
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January 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lewis Black: Thanks For Risking Your Life

Lewis Black Thanks For Risking Your Life TLB Records Available as a video (streaming) or old-fashioned CD/comedy album, Lewis Black must have just snuck in with one of the last ‘proper’ comedy specials ahead of the pandemic. As you see from the cover he was masked up – and his audience was socially distanced, he […]
Posted in Blog · Tagged Album Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Album, Comedy Special, Commentary, Coronavirus, Covd-19, Covid, Donald Trump, Lewis Black, Lewis Black: Thanks For Risking Your Life, Orange, Pandemic, Stand Up, Stand-up Comedy, Thanks For Risking Your Life, TLB Records, Trump, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: Force Majeure

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger Force Majeure International Anthem Recording Co. Here’s something really beautiful that has come directly from Covid-19. There have been many lockdown performances and attempts at sharing and connecting from artists – and now we’re starting to receive the ‘traditional’ recordings from those ad-hoc shows. Live to Instagram or Facebook, Zooming […]
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December 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Laura Marling: The Lockdown Sessions (ep)

Laura Marling The Lockdown Sessions (ep) Chrysalis Records Limited, in partnership w/ Partisan Records Though it was sometimes a challenge batting away the various Lockdown-streamed home-concerts; famous musicians beaming themselves in with their ‘all in this together’ vibe delivered from the comfort of their opulent house…it was also a time of great giving, of rare […]
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December 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Kiwi Way

Yes, there’s been a pandemic, and it’s still going by the way, and yes unemployment is surging, with many Covid casualties and the lockdown creating inertia and many anxieties and even a devious excuse for some workplaces to downscale and milk bailouts then force redundancies; several stores and businesses have simply closed their doors – […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Christmas, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Kiwi, Lockdown, NZ, Pandemic, Poem, Poem The Kiwi Way, Summer, The Kiwi Way, Xmas ·
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