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Posts Tagged Pandemic

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January 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Young: Force Majeure

Dezron Douglas & Brandee Young 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Coronavirus, Covid-19, EP, Fortune, Hope We Meet Again, House Concert, Laura Marling, Laura Marling: The Lockdown Sessions (ep), Lockdown, Lockdown Session, Pandemic, Song for Our Daughter, Stream, The End of The Affair, The Lockdown Sessions, The Lockdown Sessions (ep), You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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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September 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 232: Darren Watson’s Getting Sober For The End Of The World

Welcome to episode 232 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 in your Spotify […]
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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 231: Geoff Stahl

Welcome to episode 231 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 in your Spotify […]
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September 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young: The Times EP

Neil Young The Times EP Reprise / Amazon Music Neil Young has been one of my favourite voices of lockdown – I quickly got bored with live-streamed house-gigs. Zooming in on musicians attempting to heal the world, make it a better place was fine in our first reaches of housebound panic but it felt, for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Album Review, Archives, Demo, EP, Home Recording, Lockdown, Neil Young, Neil Young: The Times EP, Pandemic, Reprise / Amazon Music, The Times EP, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Backlash 2020: DVD

Backlash 2020 Madman WWE As a fairweather fan – at best – these days, I was intrigued to catch up with Backlash on DVD not so much for the greatest hyperbole of all time (“The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever”) more for the fact that this was my first wrestling-watching experience in the Covid-era.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Backlash 2020, Coronavirus, Covid-19, DVD, DVD Review, Lockdown, Madman, Pandemic, Pro-Wrestling, The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever, Wrestling, WWE, WWE Backlash 2020: DVD, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Playlist: Climbing The Ladder To Level 3

I’m enjoying making some random playlists during lockdown. So here’s another one. New Zealand is set to move to Level 3 in its bid to flatten curves and cure the spread of the Covid-19 infection. And here’s a playlist you can listen to because of that – or regardless. It’s all the same when it’s all the same […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Climbing The Ladder To Level 3, Covid-19, Level 3, Pandemic, Playlist, Playlist: Climbing The Ladder To Level 3, Spotify, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Women are leading the way

Women are leading the way – strong leadership, calm and clear communication. All that waiting, being told that it was a man’s job… of course when given the chance, when able to bust on through to make and then take the chance, the right person for the job isn’t the man it always was, forever, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cowboy Junkies, Fiona Apple, Jacinda Ardern, Laura Marling, Lucinda Williams, Pandemic, Poem, Poem: Women are leading the way, Shelby Lynne, Women, Women are leading the way ·

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April 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: In Which I Scroll For The Site Where Bootstraps Are Considered An Essential Item So I Can Pull Myself The Fuck Up By Them

I am updating my LinkedIn profile: Pandemic Survivor at Ongoing I think on my feet, take the days as they come – and I’m glad they still are We used to be defined by the jobs that we do, so what’s the difference? This is what I’m doing: A bit more vacuuming, an extra load […]
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