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May 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Photos from Photospace: Dirty Spoons w/ BOX OF HAMMERS and Bachelor of Architecture

Last night, Saturday, May 7, we hosted a gig up at Photospace Gallery in Courtenay Place. The excellent The Show Must Go On exhibition featuring some extraordinary rock’n’roll images captured by Murray Cammick is on until the end of May. And we thought it a nice idea to stage some sort of gig there. So my band, […]
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April 23, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

My New Ebook: Extra Stencil Threat – Short Fiction

I’ve published a brand-new collection of short stories – it’s available now as an e-Book. Just $0.99. And only from that link up above there. These stories are from right here at Off The Tracks but now you can get a curated set of stories to check out on your e-reader/Kindle app. The stories that make […]
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April 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast Now Part of Substack: “Sounds Good!”

Sweetman Podcast can now be found on my Sounds Good! Substack page. Just head there and click on the Podcast tab for every episode to date. New episodes will be there. To celebrate, I’ve dropped the annual sub rate to just $35, a massive saving from the $5 a month option. Of course it’s FREE to sign up […]
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December 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: The Music of Billie Holiday

About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular musical artist or genre or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. For my final time at the wheel this year I chose to talk about Billie Holiday. She’s never far from my mind, that voice. And the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Addiction, Afternoons, BILLIE, Billie Holiday, Holiday, Jazz, Jesse Mulligan, Karyn Hay, Radio, Radio Feature, Radio NZ, RNZ, RNZ Feature, RNZ Feature: The Music of Billie Holiday, Simon Sweetman, The Music of Billie Holiday, Trauma, Vocals ·

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December 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: December 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. For my final session of 2021 I found two albums that featured covers, moving the original songs to solo piano; two […]
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November 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 273: Dai Henwood

Hi and welcome to episode 273 of Sweetman Podcast – finding my way back into podcasting after a nearly three-month break. As with last year’s lockdowns I paused the podcast. But we’re back now – at least through until the end of the year. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual […]
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November 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 272: Jean Sergent

Hi and welcome to episode 272 of Sweetman Podcast – the first episode in a while. As with last year’s lockdowns I took a break from the podcast. But we’re back now – at least through until the end of the year. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this […]
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October 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Reviews: October 2021

Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. I’ve been doing it for about five years now. Most months. This was my first time in for 2021. This month I talked about two records from artists that I believe have been influenced by Nick Cave – and in […]
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August 26, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

My New EBook: Lockdown 2 – Electric Avenue (Poems)

I’ve just published my new e-book. It’s called Lockdown 2: Electric Avenue – a set of poems. (There is no previous volume called Lockdown 1 by the way). My previous poetry collection is a softcover book available here. The poems in this new e-collection are all from the last year/18 months – all 2020/2021, some of them are lockdown/Covid-related […]
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August 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Lockdown Hiatus

For just the third term – in six years – Sweetman Podcast is having a cuppa tea, and then a lie-down. Level 4 lockdown doesn’t make the kind of podcasting I do at all possible. Plenty of podcasts in the sea, maybe far too many – and a lot of them are so good at delivering video […]
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August 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 271: My Talk at the 2020 Manawatu Writers Festival

Hi and welcome to episode 271 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it […]
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August 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 270: Tarns Hood

Hi and welcome to episode 270 of Sweetman Podcast. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. It’s on most of the podcast platforms besides the ones […]
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