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June 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Covers You Didn’t Know Were Covers
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]Archive
January 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Damon Albarn – A Life In Notes
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Most recently I got to talk about George Harrison’s music for almost a whole hour! And then the team behind the summer programming asked me along to chat about Damon […]Archive
October 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Music-related novels
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. This topic was Music-related novels – books written about music and musicians that are not biographies, not non-fiction. We played some songs and talked about […]Archive
May 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Whistling
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. This topic was Whistling – songs with whistling; what is it about whistling in a song? Is it happy, sad, both? Is it joyous and infectious […]Archive
March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman