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August 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Paul Kelly: Forty Days

Paul Kelly Forty Days Cooking Vinyl Limited I keep thinking this is a very prolific period for Australia’s greatest songwriter. But actually it’s just a purple patch – within a purple patch. He’s always been regular and often prolific with his output but the last decade has seen a combination of ends-tying compilations and themed-shows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Acoustic, Bill Withers, Cooking Vinyl Limited, Covers, Forty Days, Lockdown, Paul Kelly, Paul Kelly: Forty Days, Poems, Quarantine, Readings, Shakespeare, Slim Dusty, Solo, Sonnet, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, YouTube ·

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December 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 141 The King of France

I turned down the chance To be the King of France It was one of those strange things that can suddenly happen I got offered the part of the king in a Shakespeare comedy It had been a hectic week leading up to Xmas trying to organise various duties ahead Work over the festive season […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Acting, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jon Mcleary, KING, Music, Play, Shakespeare, Spines, Summer Shakespeare, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 141 The King of France, The King of France, The Spines, Theatre, War Stories, War Stories # 141, Wellington, Writing ·

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November 29, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: George Henderson

George Henderson was born in Scotland many years ago and has been creating music in New Zealand since the mid-1970s and releasing it fitfully since the mid-80s, mainly as The Puddle. In this our 21st Century he has taken a renewed interest in his so-called art and released a string of Puddle albums on his brother/drummer Ian’s […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alice, Alice In Wonderland, Beat The Devil, Charles Manson, Citizen Kane, Death Watch, Film, Film Review, Five Films, Five Films That Stay With Me: George Henderson, George Henderson, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Inferno, Kill Bill, L'enfer, La Mano dello Straniero, Le Corbeau, Les Diaboliques, Macbeth, Movies, Natural Born Killers, Neco Alenky, Pirates, Roman Polanski, Rosemary's Baby, Shakespeare, Special Guest, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Lebowski, The Naked Kiss, The Puddle, The Stranger's Hand, The Watchmen, Themroc, Wages of Fear, Watchmen ·

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November 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars

William Shakespeare’s Star Wars Ian Doescher Quirk Books The problem with Star Wars – to try to narrow it down to just one thing – is the extremists; that is to say people who take it far too seriously (Ronald Reagan) and those who don’t take it seriously enough (my stoned friends attended the premiere […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book Review, George Lucas, Ian Doescher, Peter Jackson, Shakespeare, Sir Ian McKellen, Star Wars, William Shakespeare's Star Wars ·

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