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June 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
A Vinyl Affair’s Pop-Up Record Fair: Saturday, June 23, 2018
A Vinyl Affair – Wellington’s Record Fair returns on Saturday, June 23, with A Pop Up Record Affair! Hosted by The Rogue & Vagabond this is an evening event, 7.30pm-2am. Come and browse the bins, have a big dig, chat with other record fans, enjoy the guest-DJs (Boss Dude from Death Ray Records and Vinyl […]Archive
May 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 404
Luis Alberto Del Parana y su Trio Los Paraguayos, Famous Latin American Songs (1960) I’ll always have a look in a charity store or the tip shop or if passing a garage sale; I can count on one hand the number of ‘good scores’ I’ve had digging in the bins. But I’m a sucker for […]Archive
April 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Simon Sweetman, This Is Your Life
I was thinking about how one time we couldn’t afford the bills in the flat – a guy had drawn up a charter, he’d even used the word “vestiges” – there was a flat-meeting because I was dragging the chain. the power was going to be disconnected, the internet, in its infancy, would no longer […]Archive
March 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 430
Anna Leah, Love Bug [Single] (1973) Anna Leah arrived in NZ from the UK – she ended up over in Australia, where her career dwindled, then ended. But in the early 70s she surprised a few Kiwis with a small handful of hit singles. There was that one about the Wahine – bummer. And the […]Archive
January 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 452
Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass, Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) People cringe about this album now – they know the story behind it and its cover. And there’s a store somewhere that only sells copies of it. I posted a copy of it on Facebook recently and had a whole heap of people pleased to […]Archive
August 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 515
Felix King and His Orchestra, Presenting Felix King & His Orchestra, Vol.1 (?) I love a wee look in the charity shops – you don’t find much, record-wise; it’s usually all stuff you already have or have passed by long ago – so many copies of the same old things and lots of (bad?) classical […]Archive
June 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 542
Michel Legrand & His Orchestra, Strings on Fire (1962) I’ve got a box of hand-me-down/inherited records I’m still going through. They’re mostly scratched or with torn (or missing) covers. But there are some gems. And some that play just fine – even if they look like they might not…and of course some that look just […]Archive
February 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
What’s The Most You’ve Spent On A Record?
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a single album? I ask this because I had a flashback to a garage sale we had – the one and only garage sale I’ve hosted/been to. My parents were moving to a new house oh, nearly 20 years ago now. And they wanted to get rid […]Archive
February 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 585
John Rowles, John Rowles’ Hits (1968) I always used to make that joke – a bit of a music-retail gag, I guess – about how the Greatest Hits of a particular artist “should have been an EP”. Well – look here. A surprise to see exactly that from someone with an ego – like John […]Archive
April 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 722
Kenny Rogers, Love Will Turn You Around (1982) When my grandmother’s husband died I inherited some records – which meant finding a small handful of gems and wading through a couple of crates of junk. In a way I’m still searching through the detritus – because it’s of no use to anyone else really, can’t […]Archive
February 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman