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November 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton – 50 Years At The Opry: DVD

Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry Director: Ashley S Gorman Man Alive Entertainment / Madman It’s been a huge year or two for Dolly Parton – a range of celebratory docos, biopics and biographical stories including a brilliant podcast series. Dolly is always there. And for many of us she’s one of music’s true […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50 Years At The Opry, Ashley S Gorman, Concert, Documentary, Dolly, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton - 50 Years At The Opry: DVD, Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry, DVD, DVD Review, Grand Ole Opry, Man Alive Entertainment / Madman, Review, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: September 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, 2pm, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Albums, Berlin, Carol Morley, Clint Mansell, Clint Walsh, Composer, Film, Jesse Mulligan, Lady Day, Lou Reed, National Radio, Out of Blue, Pop Will Eat Itself, PWIE, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Radio NZ National, Review, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: September 2020, Score, September, September 2020, Soundtrack, Title Track, Tuesday, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 271 – Switzerland, Wellington, 2018

Funny, I was just reminiscing about the play Songs For Nobodies and how great the writing of Joanna Murray-Smith was but actually the first things I saw by Smith was this play, Switzerland. I didn’t like it. And it was the writing that really let it down for me. The acting was superb – two […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), Circa Theatre, Joanna Murray-Smith, Play, Review, Songs For Nobodies, Stubs, Stubs: # 271, Stubs: # 271 – Switzerland, Switzerland, Theatre, Wellington ·

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July 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 18: John Fogerty, Wellington 2005

All my life I have loved CCR. I can’t remember first hearing them, nor making a decision to listen to them more – it was just music that filled my brain and my soul from when I first heard it. To begin with it was some version of the greatest hits – a tape in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2005, Billy Burnette, CCR, CCR: Keepin’ On Chooglin’ With Creedence Clearwater Revival Revisited, Creedence, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dominion Post, Gig, It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 18, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 18: John Fogerty, John Fogerty, Kenny Aronoff, Live Gig, Review, This started as a series on the Phantom Billstickers Facebook Page, Wellington 2005 ·

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July 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: July 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 20/20, Afternoons, Don Bryant, Is It Over, Jesse Mulligan, July, Maceo Parker, Music Review, Radio, Radio NZ, Review, RNZ, RNZ Reviews: July 2020, Soul Food – Cooking With Maceo, Yes We Can Can, You Make Me Feel ·

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July 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 219: Colin Morris

Welcome to episode 219 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 in your Spotify […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Anchor FM, Blues, Chat, Colin Morris, Colin Morris Records, Column, Concerts, Conversation, England, Fisheye Discs, Gigs, Interview, Jazz, Journalism, Music, NZ, Podcast, Radio, Record Store, Records, Retailer, Review, Reviewer, Reviews, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast # 219, Sweetman Podcast # 219: Colin Morris, Sweetman Podcast: Colin Morris, T Leaf T, Tandys, Unity Books, Wellington, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 248 – Suzanne Vega, Sydney, 2018

One of the very reasons I got into writing about music was Suzanne Vega – just a lifelong fan of her work and I remember saying to a friend, way back, that I wish there was an opportunity to write about her, like an essay or something (this was before there was anything much in […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), 99.9F Degrees, Anniversary Tour, Aussie, Australia, Gig, Review, Solitude Standing, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: # 248, Stubs: # 248 – Suzanne Vega, Suzanne Vega, Sydney ·

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April 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 26 – My Dick, “My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release”

My Dick, My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release, 2012 I guess it was doing the rounds of some music blogs at the time – but it was summer and it felt like the right time indeed. I was taking a rare break from my daily music blogging of the time and so wasn’t desperately looking for […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2012, Comedy, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, My Dick, My Dick's Double Full-Length Release, Parody, Review, Shit That's Good, Shit That's Good - Crap Albums I Love, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 26, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 26 – My Dick, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Bobbie Brown: Cherry on Top – Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k

Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k Bobbie Brown w/ Caroline Ryder Rare Bird Books, A Barnacle Book I’m a sucker for groupie-books – it started with Pamela Des Barres I guess. And this is the second book by Bobbie Brown and the second book by Bobbie Brown that I’ve read. Ridiculous.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged and Funny as F**k, Bobbie Brown, Book Review, Caroline Ryder, Cherry On Top, Cherry on Top: Flirty, Cherry Pie, Comedian, Dirty Rocker Boys, Forty-Something, Groupie, Jamie Kennedy, Memoir, Rare Bird Books, Review, Warrant, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Kindergarten Teacher: DVD

The Kindergarten Teacher Director: Sara Colanelo Madman Sara Colanelo’s remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name seemed to generate nothing but positive praise for Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead as a 40-ish kindergarten teacher stuck in a unsatisfying marriage, with grown children and searching for something. She finds it in one of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Destroyer, DVD, DVD Review, Film Review, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Movie Review, Poetry, Review, Sara Colanelo, The Kindergarten Teacher, The Kindergarten Teacher: DVD, Vox Lux, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 237 – Star Wars A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO, Wellington, 2018

That’s right, it was the first Star Wars film aka Episode IV with the NZSO live in concert. You sat and watched the film on the big screen with a giant orchestra – our biggest and best-known covers band – playing the score live. There were moments. But I didn’t really like it. I was, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2018), A New Hope, Arts Festival, Episode IV, Family, Gig Review, John Williams, Kids, Live Film With Orchestra, Live Soundtrack, NZSO, Oscar, Review, Star Wars, Star Wars - A New Hope In Concert, Star Wars A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 237, Stubs: # 237 – Star Wars A New Hope In Concert w/ NZSO, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 235 – Hand To God, Wellington, 2017

Someone asked me the other day how I got into theatre reviewing and I couldn’t really answer it. Then I remembered it was as prosaic as a newspaper editor asking me to do it. They obviously knew I’d done a book review or two and some music and they asked me to do it. Writing […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2017), Circa Theatre, Drama, Hand To God, Play, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 235, Stubs is an occasional feature here at Off The Tracks – looking back through the ticket-stub box and remembering how the show went down., Stubs: # 235 – Hand To God, Theatre Reviewing, Wellington ·
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