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February 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 122: The Shamen – “En-Tact”

Barriers of entry. You just need to dive in – mostly. But sometimes it helps if you’re there at the right time. And with anything dance-music related I feel that’s most certainly the case, for the most part anyway. I love a lot of Daft Punk’s music because I hear it always thinking about how I heard […]
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January 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Ali Whitelock: and my heart crumples like a coke can 

and my heart crumples like a coke can  Ali Whitelock  Wakefield Press  I finished reading Ali Whitelock’s poetry volume the day I heard of Mary Oliver’s passing. I had been savouring the pages of “coke can”, taking my time, reading no more than four poems in a sitting; deep stories, they require a lot of you (in the best possible way), they sit with […]
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February 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 29: The Incredible String Band – “The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter”

I am pretty green when it comes to The Incredible String Band. One of those groups I’ve read about more than I’ve listened to. That said, I did read a book about the British psych/folk scene of the 60s/70s and it prompted me to buy a compilation of the String Band’s “hits” – not that […]
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February 10, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 586

Big Country, Peace In Our Time (1988) A lot of the albums from the 1980s that are in my record collection either first belonged to my folks, my grandparents or an aunty or uncle – or I’ve gone and bought them because I heard them there first. If I haven’t inherited it I’ve sought it […]
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February 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 98 The Football

With my dad being a Scot, it was always going to be football and “not that square ball game”. He had played for his RAF squadron in WW2 against what was left of the French national team at the end of the war and brought his passion for the game with him to his new […]
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