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September 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Wellington Film Society: Preview – Paris, Texas (September 17)

The Wellington Film Society showed Santi-Vina last week. This week it’s Paris, Texas. I’ve seen a lot of Wim Wenders films. I’ll watch almost anything that is scored by Ry Cooder. I love Harry Dean Stanton, and Dean Stockwell too for that matter. I’ve read plenty of Sam Shepard including his Motel Chronicles which was […]

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September 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 12: Jacques Brel – “Olympia 64”

It was the Infiniment compilation that gave me the wider story around Jacques Brel, until then he was just a guy that was an influence on Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker, David Bowie, Tom Waits and many other musicians that I dug. I knew a few of the songs, but that double-disc and its notes provided […]

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January 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sleater-Kinney: Live In Paris

Sleater-Kinney Live In Paris Sub Pop Records Here is the official live document of the Sleater-Kinney reunion shows. If No Cities To Love was the hint that the band had something new to say then the shows in support proved they could effortlessly integrate the new material with the old, putting on a party for […]

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September 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 630

Dizzy Gillespie, Salle Pleyel Concert (Vol.2) (1956) A wee taster really, a little soupçon – it’s volume two of a concert, just an EP’s worth – I found it at a store in Sydney recently; I was buying up a few singles and just decided to chuck this in the pile. I’ve got other Dizzy […]