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March 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: March 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two cool new albums I’ve been playing a lot. First up the latest album from The […]
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February 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: February 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. I didn’t review a whole lot of music over summer – but I did get hooked on some things, especially things […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2021, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Album Reviews, Albums, Bananarama, Biography, Book, Brian Eno, Cruel Summer, Feb, February 2021, Film Music 1976 - 2020, Hillbilly Elegy, Jesse Mulligan, Karate Kid, Radio, Review, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: February 2021, Under ·

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February 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 244: Maggie Tweedie

Well, after a lengthy summer break the podcast is back and it’s the first one for 2021. This conversation was recorded late last year and then I decided to have a wee break over Christmas/New Year. So you’re now going to hear episode 244 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf […]
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December 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2020

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 this most recent session probably marked five years. […]
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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Features: The Beatles one by one…

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. It started late November in 2018. Jesse Mulligan asked me if […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, George Harrison, Jesse Mulligan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Ringo Starr, RNZ, RNZ Feature, RNZ Features, RNZ Features: The Beatles one by one..., The Beatles, The Beatles one by one... ·

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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Ween: Live At Five In New York ’95 (ep)

Ween Live At Five In New York ’95 (ep) Happenstance Ween. One of the greatest musical entities of the last 30 years. Mad. Weird. Wonderful. Often all three at once. And sometimes very, very bad too – but usually in the very best way. When Ween broke up I was gutted. Even though the two […]
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December 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Solo Career of John Lennon

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. But how to finish with John Lennon? Well there was the […]
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November 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Ryan Brady (Take It Away Podcast)

There’s a special bond that develops with radio hosts – and now podcast hosts – and their long-time listeners. Usually we don’t meet, we often have no idea what the person looks like. But we carry their voice in our head. We listen to them for hours and hours and we form a picture in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, Host, Paul McCartney, Podcast, podcast host, R.I.P., R.I.P. Ryan Brady (Take It Away Podcast), Radio, Ryan Brady, Take It Away, Take It Away podcast, The Beatles ·

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November 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: November 2020

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 four years into  it or so… For […]
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October 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: October 2020

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 four years into  it or so… For […]
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October 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: One Minute Songs

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. I wanted to do something different this time, so came up with the idea of playing a bunch of different songs in different styles that are all just […]
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October 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Billie Holiday: The Last Interview and Other Conversations Billie Holiday (w/ introduction by Khanya Mtshali) Melville House I’m a big fan of The Last Interview series (there’s more being added every time I check in – including, I see, a Ruth Bader Ginsburg one is being readied).
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