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November 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 8 – No Stone Left Unturned, Milla’s The Divine Comedy
In writing a blog about records I’ve owned, it would be easy to leave out a lot of the uncool moments, the bad choices, and the so-called guilty pleasures. Much better to focus on Lou Reed, Johnny Thunders and Steve Earle than on some of the less auspicious selections I’ve made over the years. What’s […]Archive
October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened
Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]Archive
October 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 6 – Gushing, Steve Earle’s I Feel Alright
Despite best-laid plans, it has been a while between blogs. My excuse is solid – I spent September travelling in America, travelling to a number of particularly musical places in America, to be vaguely specific. There’ll be more about that next time, but for now I’ve gone back to something I previously wrote for Simon […]Archive
September 9, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 5 My Favourite Doll: Johnny Thunders’ So Alone
Some albums just make you want to write them a love letter. No matter how imperfect they might be, they hooked you in at some point, and never let you go. I probably have a dozen or so of those albums. The really special albums. This is one. The New York Dolls were a mystery […]Archive
August 26, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 4 The Saddest Song Ever? – Bruce Springsteen’s The River
A song, not an album this week. Some time ago on Facebook, Simon asked, “What’s the saddest song ever?” or something to that effect. I had the same answer as ever – and this is a variation on something I’d previously written on it. It’s also the first time I’m going to talk about Springsteen […]Archive
August 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 3 A New Zealand Album: Jan Hellriegel’s Tremble
“It’s pretty good, for a New Zealand album.” When I have nothing to do on the weekend I pop out to see a band. When I have something to do on the weekend, odds are I’m popping out to see a band. In recent years that’s been a fruitful endeavour. There are a lot of […]Archive
August 3, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2015’s Album Reviews – July
A busy month for me, July. It was my birthday – and as a special birthday treat I got to go and see Ryan Adams (and it was great). Also loaded up another three episodes of the Podcast. And debuted two new features here at Off The Tracks – Five Films That Stay With Me […]Archive
July 21, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 2 – I Love Lou, I Love Lou Not: Lou Reed’s Street Hassle
It occurs to me I’ve given pretty much every ‘important’ artist an honest try over the years. Not intentionally, it just happened. I liked Hendrix, so I sought out Jeff Beck. Steve Earle mentioned Townes Van Zandt, so Townes sold another record in New Zealand. And God knows every word written in 1992 seemed to […]Archive
July 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 1 – We All Start Somewhere, Icehouse’s Man of Colours
This blog isn’t going to be a chronology of my music fandom, nor is it meant to be particularly autobiographical, but it still makes sense to kick things off at the beginning. Not the first album I was aware of, or even the first album I owned, but certainly the album that really got the […]Archive
July 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Guest Blogging: Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross
I’m very happy to announce that, starting this week, Off The Tracks welcomes another guest blogger into the fold, a new voice. Jon McLeary’s Ghost of Electricity: War Stories was introduced over a year ago – and continues to run weekly. The new voice here will be one belong to Michael Ross. He’ll contribute a […]Archive
December 22, 2012 by Simon Sweetman