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November 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 14: Paul Simon, Auckland 2013
I don’t get up to Auckland all that often for gigs. I’d like to. There are a lot of good gigs that come to New Zealand, but only play Auckland: one show only. And it’s the obvious place for one-show-only tours. It has the population. I get to Auckland once a year for a gig. […]Archive
March 26, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 565
Paul Simon, The Paul Simon Songbook (1965) The first I knew of this was the reissued CD – a few years back now. But until then I didn’t know that Paul Simon had recorded prior to the Simon & Garfunkel albums. I mean, I knew they had cut a single years earlier, together, under a […]Archive
April 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 715
Art Garfunkel, Fate For Breakfast (1979) A lovely voice, dreamy, quite incredible – and those amazing harmonies and vocal arrangements…but I think so many of us will remember Art Garfunkel as the second fiddle, wingman, nuttier than squirrel shit and with some decent forays into acting and one helluva reading list…well, certainly, post Simon & […]Archive
February 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 754
Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) A recent junk-store pick-up; a good score for a buck, it’s scratched up a bit but it plays – and I like a bit scuff on these old pre-loved records anyhow. I’ve mentioned, previously, the yarn about seeing Simon & Garfunkel live and what happened when they […]Archive
July 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #118 – Paul Simon, Auckland, 2013
I had traveled to Auckland to see Paul Simon already – as part of Simon & Garfunkel. And it was great, and special and all of that, but I really wanted to see Paul Simon (not just because I had seen Art Garfunkel solo already). Midway through that show when Paul Simon did a solo bracket with […]Archive
June 8, 2015 by Simon Sweetman