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December 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. For my final session of 2021 I found two albums that featured covers, moving the original songs to solo piano; two […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2021, a Journey on Piano, Afternoons, Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, At My Piano, Brian Wilson, December, Demian Dorelli, Demian Dorelli: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon - a Journey on Piano, Instrumental, Jesse Mulligan, Music Reviews, Piano, Pink Moon, Radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio NZ, Review, Reviews, RNZ, RNZ Reviews, RNZ Reviews: December 2021, Road, Simon Sweetman, Solo, The Beach Boys, Til I Die ·

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April 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Night We Found Our Cat In The Street

We got home about 7pm, and there was a gang in the  street – all these kids from the neighbourhood flats, and standing, like a pied piper among them, a guy looking confused, a bit sad, he had a cat slumped in his hand. It was our cat. It was dead. He handed it to me […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Baxter, Cat, Poem, Poem: The Night We Found Our Cat In The Street, Road, The Night We Found Our Cat In The Street ·

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March 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites

I forgot all about Royksopp. I loved their debut, Melody A.M. – I was working in a music store at the time and new music was arriving, daily. (Obviously). It was a good time to be working in music retail – for a start there were still customers. And though, very swiftly, the various taglines […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobahn, chillout, Driving, Kraftwerk, Late Night Driving, Late Night Driving Favourites, Late Night Tales, Melody A.M., Nostalgia, Radio-Activity, Road, Road Trip, Royksopp, Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites, Trip-Hop ·

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November 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 137 The Desert Road

Time was running out for Sue There wasn’t much left she knew I wrote it as a kind of sequel or answer to Weathered Lines Her whereabouts was fine but it wasn’t home She finally figured out she was alone Instead of being a song about life it’s a song about death and the more […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Driving, Ghost Stories, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, Music, Painting, Poem, Poetry, Road, Snake-Like Life, Song, Songwriting, Spines, The Desert Road, The Ghost, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 137 The Desert Road, The Spines, War Stories, War Stories # 137, Weathered Lines, Wellington, Writing ·

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August 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1054

Paul McCartney, NEW (2013) Have you got the time for McCartney’s “NEW” album? – I asked at the end of my review. And then, I promptly forgot about the “NEW” album by Paul McCartney. You see, as sometimes has to be the way, I was reviewing that from a link, a stream. I hardly ever […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2013, LP, Macca, New, Paul McCartney, Road, Spotify, Stream, The Beatles, Vinyl, Wings ·

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