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January 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 100 – The 100th Episode
Welcome to episode 100 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a conversation with myself. That is to say – the podcast has reached episode 100 and it was time to look back. I turned on the tape recorder and captured some thoughts about the evolution of the […]Archive
January 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 97 – Jules Desmond (Take 2)
Welcome to episode 97 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This is a second conversation with Jules Desmond. If you missed the first one click here – we had a good old chat about some of his bands and music reminiscing – but we didn’t cover it all. So […]Archive
November 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 89 – Kirsten McDougall
Welcome to episode 89 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here I had a chat with Kirsten McDougall. She is a writer, publicist and literary manager. We discuss her various roles and talk about her two books, The Invisible Rider and Tess. The Invisible Rider is a 2012 release, […]Archive
August 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 175 Epidural
It was John’s idea initially. He’s an old friend and drinking buddy and an excellent sound engineer and musician in his own right. He came to a Spines practice with his laptop and some good mics and tried to record us rehearsing. It was like a dry run. Our time in the practice space is […]Archive
January 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 144 Spines Practice
The absent-minded maestro was racing up New York’s Seventh Avenue to a rehearsal, when a stranger stopped him. “Pardon me,” he said, “can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” answered the maestro breathlessly. “Practice!” It happens every week for us these days on a Sunday almost religiously Back in the eighties […]Archive
November 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Sprog On The Tracks: Five-Year Flashback
Today is Oscar’s fifth birthday. We’ve just dumped him up at school. First day. He is wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles backpack. Our hero in his half-shell. He is wearing a screaming pink Doc McStuffins t-shirt. He played his Phil Collins CD last night before bed… I thought I’d republish something I wrote the […]Archive
July 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 671
The Chipmunks, Chipmunk Punk (1980) We’ve all, I’m sure, done that thing of playing records at the wrong speed – for a giggle. I was hooked on that when I was a kid. The S==L==O==W sound of a 45 played at 33, and the zippy-quick-funny sound of the opposite, a 33 played at 45. And […]Archive
January 6, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: Katy and Simon’s Wedding Music
It’s our tenth wedding anniversary – I still have the CDR that we assembled with all our wedding music on it…doesn’t play so well now, ten years of being stashed in a draw without a cover, of briefly living in the car, of going AWOL for most of the last half-decade in fact… Well, Spotify […]Archive
December 20, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 90 The Spines 2015
We had a pretty good year as it unfolded. It started with a big profile on the band’s first decade in Audioculture – the NZ music online archive. Strongly written by Gary Steel with interesting insight into those early line-ups and the records we made. Great to be officially represented in an historical and cultural […]Archive
December 6, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 88 A Tour of Two Cities Part Two: Napier
There were never really any groupies that followed the Spines – or not that I knew of. I put it down to the fact that we were pretty intense and through the times in the eighties that I was single we always had women in the band itself. There was one period there though, after […]Archive
March 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman