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November 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: A Mate of Mine – Yet Another Rugby-Tragic – Was Surprised to Know I Even Cared About Basketball.
“I don’t get basketball at all”, he said. “It’s just You score a point, then I will, then you, then me, then you, then me…” He did his best to make that sound like it was a bad thing. I let him score his point. Then went home to watch a 35-year old replay of […]Archive
January 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Dan Carter – A Perfect 10: DVD
Dan Carter: A Perfect 10 Director: Luke Mellows Southern Lights It turns out that you can be a good looking, successful, talented, hard working person that excels at the sport of rugby – your father putting little rugby posts up in the backyard when you’re young – and in the end, despite money and international […]Archive
November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 195: Linda Burgess
Welcome to episode 195 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 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 69 – Jeremy Taylor
Welcome to episode 69 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with writer, reviewer, musician and record store guy, Jeremy Taylor. If he’s not at the counter offering his wisdom he’s in the back room at Slow Boat Records […]Archive
May 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 690
Fred Dagg, Fred Dagg’s Greatest Hits (1975) I reckon Fred Dagg was an incredible comic creation and of course not the only one from one of the most brilliant of comic minds. Growing up with a bit of Fred Dagg and other works from the mind of John Clarke had me reading and watching anything […]Archive
July 15, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Jeremy Taylor: Rugby World Cup 2015
Rugby World Cup 2015 Jeremy Taylor Germinal Press Jeremy Taylor is a self-confessed rugby tragic – and so here he gets to have a fan’s wet-dream by splooshing out a bit of analysis, swirling in some opinion and backing it up with those pesky things called facts. In this slim volume, an update of Germinal […]Archive
March 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 49 Lily and I
Lily and I went down to the riot – chopped around but we couldn’t get in First of all there was no Lily Got quite warm as we got to the fire and the heat exchange was biting in I was single at that time and went down to Molesworth Street on my own And […]Archive
April 21, 2014 by Simon Sweetman