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February 7, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: February 2018
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 a couple of years into […]Archive
January 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
PressPatron on Off The Tracks: Click to Donate and Support
As of today you’ll notice PressPatron on Off The Tracks, a banner button asking you to donate (if you wish) and a button in the side bar which tells you more specifically:Archive
January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Final Quarter
I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m […]Archive
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
How Do You Find Music? How Does Music Find You? How Has That Changed?
Do you ever stop to consider the changes that have been made to the way you find music? Is your approach still the same? Surely it’s changed, you’ve changed formats, the formats have changed – in terms of delivery approach, in terms of regularity, in terms of how and when you receive them – as […]Archive
September 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Dr. Tennant’s Verbal Highs Podcast: Episode 37 – I’m a guest on a podcast; Lewis Tennant is the host
Dr. Tennant’s Verbal Highs is a podcast that comes from a kitchen bench in Kingsland, Auckland. It’s podcasted weekly and the host is Lewis Tennant. The latest episode, # 37 features…Me! I’m the guest. I was up in Auckland for the weekend and Lewis and I had been in touch about it – we are […]Archive
August 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Challenge: You Gotta Have Goals…Or Else You End Up With This As Your Goal
I’ve had this book for a while – I have the 2005 version, it’s been updated I gather. I don’t know that it’s really any sort of resource, but it is the sort of book that someone like me owns. I haven’t ever read it right through, and I haven’t really ever had a plan […]Archive
December 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – November
Strange month, November. That election didn’t help things – and we lost Leonard Cohen! And more besides (Leon Russell, Sharon Jones…) I didn’t write a lot of album reviews. I did share a lot of other things though – new essays and blog-posts, think-pieces, album reviews of classic old albums…a bit of theatre reviewing too. […]Archive
October 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – September
Back in Wellington for the whole month after a couple of months of being in a few different places and on holiday and so on. Very much a head-down/bum-up sort of a month but most of the energy went to the podcast. That said I still found time to get in a few reviews, book […]Archive
September 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – August
At the very start of August we were still away on our holiday – so when we returned it was all about hunkering down, and albums-wise I caught up with a few from earlier in the year (and even last year) as well as a few brand new things. Found lots to like of course […]Archive
April 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Digests: The Best of 2016’s Album Reviews – March
A very busy month in March – the Arts Festival meant a whole lot of gig reviewing, I posted more things up here at Off The Tracks than any other month recently – over 120 items, and loads of record reviews, but I also got back into DVD reviewing, book reviewing and posting up some […]Archive
February 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman