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May 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Father & Son (Pt. II)

When the old man had his best mate in town –  guy who’d played drums in his band  well, suddenly everything I’d ever done with music –  every radio appearance, every interview, and those pesky  review controversies, it was all up for grabs.  Topics for conversation. Pride too.  It was all, “remember when…” and “what about that time…” and “didn’t you also speak to…” and “you saw them didn’t you…”  Not […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Band, Father & Son, Father & Son (Pt. II), Music, Part 2, Part Two, Poem, Poem: Father & Son, Poem: Father & Son (Pt. II), Pride, Pt. II, Pt.2 ·

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July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 173 Legal Highs and Lows – Part Two

After my bizarre experience with the legal “party pills” in the mid-2000s it’s fair to say I was highly sceptical about the synthetic cannabis that came on sale earlier this decade. I had a few friends who tried and said it was pretty good but I wasn’t convinced it even worked – the first time […]
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July 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: My Dinner With Havelock North – Part Two

yeah, well I think you’ll find that Bill English is actually a pretty honest guy. More honest than most politicians, probably. yeah, and the thing is the country is a business – maybe the biggest business of all. So you run it like a business. You have to. yeah, I’m not so sure about that. […]
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August 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 123 Union Hall – Part Two: Violent Femmes

It was packed, with students, music fans and hoons and there was a great atmosphere. The Spines were Ross, Wendy, Neill and me that night and we were up for it. We were like a huge rhythm engine in those days playing in odd funky time signatures with intense and sometimes insane vocals. We had […]
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June 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 116 The Paintings – Part Two

I spent a couple of years working on a certain trilogy of films molding and casting props and while I found the work fascinating and challenging it was also all-consuming and creatively frustrating – self-expression didn’t really come into it. My main saving grace in that way was the Spines which I managed to keep […]
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August 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 837

Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge (1974) I never thought all that much of this one when I was buying up Mike Oldfield albums. I wanted to check out whatever he’d done, but this one never really stuck. Funny, because now I’d rather listen to it than Tubular Bells; totally (over) done. Strange how that works sometimes. […]
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