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June 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Friends: The Reunion
Friends: The Reunion Director: Ben Winston HBO Max Nostalgia has always been the best marketing hook. Pop songs from the sixties singing about the “reflections of the way life used to be”. Pop songs from every decade since doing much the same. Why not remind people of the past though, you can sell them the […]Archive
September 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
Metallica & San Francisco Symphony S&M2 Rhino/Blackened Recordings School was a while ago and thinking about it now it had its moments. So I think I will go to the Reunion – why not? I mean it might bring back some of those happy memories. Memories of not much happening at all. And new visions of […]Archive
August 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Porno For Pyros: Perry Farrell’s True Masterpiece
I watched the footage of a reformed Porno For Pyros playing a couple of songs for the virtual version of Lollapalooza – and it wasn’t shit! It was pretty good. It filled me with nostalgia. I love this band. Or more particularly, I love the album also called Porno For Pyros, the band’s self-titled debut. […]Archive
April 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Stray Cats: 40
The Stray Cats 40 Surfdog Records / BMG Rights Management (US) LLC You sometimes worry for these sorts of reunions – and certainly The Stray Cats never worried about anything crucial like developing; theirs was a loving pastiche – a style already there that they lifted and ran with, bringing 50s rockabilly to the 70s/80s […]Archive
March 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Friends Just Can’t Be Found
Here’s the key thing about Bridge Over Troubled Water: when Paul Simon wrote it – he had just two verses. He took it to Art Garfunkel and asked what he thought. Artie told him to go away and write a third verse – told him he had half a good song but it needed finishing. […]Archive
November 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 226
Blam Blam Blam, Untitled Tour EP (2019) A reissue/replication of the band’s early work – the classic songs – put together for the recent tour which was brilliant. I was too young to catch Blam Blam Blam the first time, but I wasn’t going to miss them on this reunion and it was brilliant. Three […]Archive
September 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 9 – BBM, “Around The Next Dream”
BBM, Around The Next Dream, 1994 The short-lived “supergroup” BBM was basically the Cream reunion that Eric Clapton wasn’t interested in, so they subbed in Gary Moore. There had been a Cream get-together ahead of this and then a documented one a decade after – but this was, briefly, an exciting thing. Particularly because it […]Archive
September 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Fleetwood Mac (September 12, Akld)
Fleetwood Mac Spark Arena, Auckland Thursday, September 12 I was so into this – and very nervous. I’m a mega Fleetwood Mac fan, I love all periods of the band, all versions. But it’s ten years since I last saw them (back when Lindsey Buckingham was still front and centre) and I just had to […]Archive
September 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 184: Don McGlashan
Welcome to episode 184 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]Archive
June 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Mazzy Star: Still EP
Mazzy Star Still EP Rhymes of an Hour Records Mazzy Star – never ones to rush eh…there were three fairly-perfect albums across the band’s first half-decade; they continued to tour through into the very early 2000s and then Hope Sandoval released a decent solo album and appeared on some tracks with Bert Jansch – this […]Archive
May 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman