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May 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 58: Burning Spear – “Marcus Garvey”
I like Burning Spear – but I didn’t know this album. And that seems a crime. But hey, this is all about fixing such crimes… I’m always on the lookout for good reggae. Because I think there’s a perception that I don’t like reggae (not true). But more than that I’m on the lookout for […]Archive
April 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 411
UB40, Signing Off (1980) My dad played tapes in the car a lot when we were young – UB40 was a big deal. And he had this album – and, later, The Greatest Hits one – (I think that was my brother’s, but the whole family got a kick out of it, sure). I loved […]Archive
February 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tomorrow People: “BBQ” Reggae
Tomorrow People BBQ Reggae Tomorrow People Well now, this is really something. Some handsome devil cooking up a few treats there – the BBQ with plenty of fuel; a few ‘burnt’ CDs by a half-baked (sorry!) reggae band. And look – there’s a sausage there, well, half a sausage – could that be symbolic of […]Archive
January 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 196 Ska
I think it was the killer basslines that hooked me in and the attitude as much as anything. When I first moved to Wellington in 1980 I guess I was still writing folk songs. Louise and I had found work at the Art Centre and I felt under pressure to write. That first Specials album […]Archive
January 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: The Selecter & The Beat (January 25; Wgtn)
The Selecter & The Beat Opera House Thursday, January 25 Two tones of 2-tone bands on the one bill and it seems The Beat and The Selecter take it in turns to headline; Pauline Black bounds onto the stage, her energy palpable instantly. It’s The Selecter’s turn to start the night, it’s hot and the […]Archive
October 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary #182 In Your Wound
It hurts to laugh and hurts to cry Nearly sixty years on the planet and this is the first time I’ve ever needed to be in hospital for my own health I did spend months in Dunedin Central at my son’s bedside when he was in a halo so I am quite familiar with the […]Archive
June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Reggae Knights: Ten Important Reggae Albums In My Life
I started this thing a while ago where I made lists of the top albums that I considered important – it’s a personal list; the albums that introduced me to a genre and have become firm favourites and/or pointed the way. The idea being that I list out my ten favourites – my ten important […]Archive
May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 557
V/A, The Harder They Come [OST] (1972) There I was, just a week ago, I had finally found a copy of this on vinyl – or rather it had found me. I’m sure I’d breezed past it other times. Good to finally have – I posted a photo of it, said that it felt like […]Archive
April 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bob Marley & Me: Finding My Way To Marley and Then Back In Again
The first Bob Marley song I was ever aware of was Buffalo Soldier – it was a posthumous hit, released in 1983. And of course it became one of Bob’s biggest songs. A year later the compilation Legend turned up. I was a young kid but this album blew me away. I now have a […]Archive
February 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 578
V/A, 20 Reggae Classics (1984) Good times! And good timing – there I was just thinking about how I needed to dive back into some reggae – some of the good stuff, the proper stuff – and I found this old compilation. Would have been handy having this a few years back but actually this […]Archive
January 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman