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March 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 10 – Remembering Old Favourite albums

I guess I do this most weeks – occupational hazard or whatever – but this week in particular I’ve been revisiting old favourites, thinking about albums I liked a lot 5 and 10 years ago, and 20 years ago…and in some cases just 2-3 years ago… I’ll also give an early mention of Goose Snow […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aimee Mann, Blue Valentine, Elvis Costello, Five Songs, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday # 10, Five Songs For Friday: # 10 – Remembering Old Favourite albums, Frank Zappa, Friday, Goose Snow Cone, I've Been Drinking, If You All Get To Heaven, Jeff Beck Group, Joe's Garage, Levon Helm, Mental Illness, My Brave Face, Paul McCartney, Remembering Old Favourite albums, Rod Stewart, Sananda Maitreya, Somewhere, Terence Trent D'arby, The Band, Tom Waits, Up On Cripple Creek ·

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August 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Pip Adam

Pip Adam is a writer who lives in Aro Valley. Her first novel, I’m Working On A Building, was published by Victoria University Press in 2013. Her first collection of short stories, Everything We Hoped For was also published by Victoria University Press in 2010. Her work has also appeared in Sport, Glottis, Turbine, Landfall, Lumière Reader, JAAM, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged American Psycho, Better off Read, Carl Shuker, Cinema, Coffee and Allah, Everything We Hoped For, Film, Five Films That Stay With Me: Pip Adam, Guest Post, I Shot Andy Warhol, I'm Working On A Building, Kitchen Sink, Movies, Mr Wrong, Novelist, Pip Adam, Podcast, Short Stories, Somewhere, Special Guest, The Bling Ring, The Method Actors, Trial Run, True Detective, Wellington, Wendy and Lucy, Writer, Writing ·

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December 16, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1714

Tom Waits, Blue Valentine (1978) This is the first Tom Waits album I ever heard – so it is my favourite; just for that. If I hadn’t heard this I might never have heard Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones and Mule Variations and all the other albums. I’ve collected all of the Tom Waits albums. I’m […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged $29.00, 1978, Bad As Me, Blog On The Tracks, Blue Valentine, Blue Valentines, Captain Beefheart, Kentucky Avenue, Mule Variations, Rain Dogs, Romeo Is Bleeding, Somewhere, Swordfishtrombones, Tom Waits, Vinyl ·

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