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December 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: December 2018
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now nearly three years into it. Last year I […]Archive
September 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 181 On The Air – Part Two
When I got the call to be interviewed on the national radio station on a music subject that I knew well it was always going to be about Wellington. I did toy briefly with the idea of talking about Todd Rundgren for half an hour but got talked out of it. I really loved the […]Archive
December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year
A couple of weeks ago I left you with a list of the biggest stinkers of 2015 – and I’ve looked back through that list, they are all duds (or were duds to my ears anyway) but there isn’t an album there that stands out as the single worst thing I heard this year. I […]Archive
September 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 6 – Phil O’Brien
Welcome to the sixth episode of Sweetman Podcast. This one is a chat with Phil O’Brien, radio personality. You may know Phil from his current stint as host of Saturday Night on Radio NZ National or for his co-hosting of Matinee Idle, a show he created over a decade ago. But Phil O’Brien’s career in […]Archive
January 5, 2013 by Simon Sweetman