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May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: # 13 – Evening Mope
The weekend is here, I’m late with the five songs so this one can be an evening edition, songs for your Friday night rather than for your Friday – it’s been a great week, mostly. Lots of good podcast stuff happening, gathering interviews, lining up a few more, interviewing and editing…all very good. And then […]Archive
October 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
When It’s About More Than Just The Music: Remembering Interviewing Paul Buchanan
Sometimes, with music, part of the magic, the connection, is in the memory. And part of the memory is in the things that were happening around the music. I had loved the music of The Blue Nile since I first heard it. And the band’s last album, High, is the one that means the most […]Archive
February 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Craig Armstrong: It’s Nearly Tomorrow
Craig Armstrong It’s Nearly Tomorrow BMG Across the 90s and early 2000s Craig Armstrong’s music was everywhere, those hypnotic, enchanting arrangements that helped to frame the majesty of Massive Attack’s finest works, the symphonic sweep meeting up with trip-hop to create those alluring movie soundtrack moments, there were a couple of production albums outside of […]Archive
September 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Lewis: L’Amour
Lewis L’Amour Light In The Attic Musically it’s so simple – sparse, proud, strange – a few synth lines stab in and around some late-night piano fumbling, a soft coo of a voice. No drums. No bass. It’s perfect at midnight or 3am or 6am – and it’s so perfect here, now, some 30 years […]Archive
September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Dean Blunt: The Redeemer
Dean Blunt The Redeemer Redeye Label Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland have collaborated under many pseudonyms – including as Hype Williams – but The Redeemer, though it features Copeland on a couple of tracks – is a severing of ties; a break-up album – well, a concept album about the breaking down of a relationship. […]Archive
July 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Blue Nile: Hats (Reissue)
The Blue Nile Hats (Reissue) EMI I’ve fallen for Hats, the second Blue Nile Album, just recently in fact. Good timing given the new 2CD reissue. Before that it was all about A Walk Across The Rooftops (also reissued recently) and High (the one so many forgot about because, ultimately, Peace At Last was a […]Archive
November 2, 2012 by Simon Sweetman