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May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 115 – Fane Flaws

Welcome to episode 115 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Fane Flaws. This was a great conversation – and it was a long time in the making. I hadn’t met Fane, we’d corresponded, I grew up listening to Blerta and The Crocodiles, was […]
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October 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 133 Majoribanks Street

It was a big old house on Marshbanks Street and my cousin Mark got the lease for half of it in 1982. I’d been living in a little room in a boarding house on The Terrace and getting hassled for writing songs too loudly in the middle of the night. My girlfriend Nikki used to […]
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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month

It’s always slightly depressing to me somehow – why we need one at all and who it’s for exactly. Growing up as a kid in the sixties most of the ‘homegrown’ music we heard was local cover versions of overseas artists songs – almost like a karaoke country or lamb dressed as mutton. There were […]
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