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May 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 248 – Suzanne Vega, Sydney, 2018

One of the very reasons I got into writing about music was Suzanne Vega – just a lifelong fan of her work and I remember saying to a friend, way back, that I wish there was an opportunity to write about her, like an essay or something (this was before there was anything much in […]
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February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Suzanne Vega: Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast

Suzanne Vega Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, WBAI Studios, NY, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast Arcturus One of the great joys of streaming platforms is the proliferation of authorised bootleg material and old radio shows and curios being uploaded. Here’s a radio show appearance that is 35 years old (almost to the day on […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 35th Anniversary, Album Review, Archive, Bootleg, Feb 19th 1985 WBAI-FM Broadcast, Lenny Kaye, Live From The ‘Lenny Kaye Show’, NY, Radio Show, Suzanne Vega, WBAI Studios, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 232 – Suzanne Vega, Wellington, 2018

It felt like I had been waiting my whole life for a Suzanne Vega gig – then I saw her twice in two weeks. First in Australia (I couldn’t take the chance that there wouldn’t be NZ shows) and then I saw her in Wellington also. Was worth the travel. And the two shows. They […]
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August 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 129 – Suzanne Vega

Welcome to episode 129 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I talk with one of my all-time musical heroes, Suzanne Vega. We are in a hotel restaurant and there is some background noise. Just a warning. What a thrill to meet her and speak with her. I flew […]
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August 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Suzanne Vega (August 8, Wgtn)

Suzanne Vega Opera House, Wellington Wednesday, August 8 For her New Zealand shows it was just Suzanne Vega and long-serving bassist Mike Visceglia. I say just because it was the full band that performed in Australia, at wonderful shows celebrating the respective 30th and 25th anniversaries of the Solitude Standing and 99.9F Degrees albums.
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July 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Suzanne Vega (July 28, Sydney)

Suzanne Vega Enmore Theatre, Newtown; Sydney, Australia Saturday, July 28 Suzanne Vega is celebrating the 30th and 25th anniversaries of, respectively, the albums Solitude Standing and 99.9Fd. Or as she explained cleverly at the start of the show, selections from the albums. No fear of a trick though, that meant most of each album – […]
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June 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Suzanne Vega to Play Two NZ Shows: August 2018

Anyone reading this will know I’m such a huge Suzanne Vega fan. So it’s huge news – to me anyway – that she is going to be playing two shows in New Zealand in August this year. I’ve already booked tickets to see her play in Australia in late-July. I’ll return home with the chance […]
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November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Laura Marling: Semper Femina

Laura Marling Semper Femina Sony Music Canada Inc. Laura Marling’s output is extraordinary – 27 years old, six albums to date, all of them great. Each one building on the one before it. No mistakes. No duds. And though the first three sit in a straight line (and that’s not a criticism) from there her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blake Mills, Laura Marling, Laura Marling: Semper Femina, Nine Objects of Desire, Semper Femina, Suzanne Vega ·

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April 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Songs of Her Life, Songs For My Life: The Great Songs of Suzanne Vega

I’ve been listening to Suzanne Vega since I was ten years old. The songs that everyone knows are Luka and Tom’s Diner. These songs have held up well – Luka might suffer from a very-1987 guitar sound but it’s an incredible piece of pop songwriting. A song about child abuse is one thing – a […]
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January 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 6 – Five Female Artists With Songs That Made Me Go ‘Wow’

Tonight I’m playing a bunch of records down at the San Fran – all female artists, mostly a 1980s set I reckon, but I have a few things that spill out either side, so we’ll see where the night goes… So in honour of that – and the amazing PJ Harvey show earlier this week […]
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October 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Suzanne Vega: Lover, Beloved – Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers

Suzanne Vega Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson McCullers Perpetual Sounds There’s something calming, soothing, reassuring about Suzanne Vega’s voice. That’s been the constant in a career of solid-to-brilliant albums where she’s diversified hugely from that initial “folk-revival” template. From the icy electric guitar treatments on her first album through the 80s-beatnik phase, […]
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May 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Some Late Night Junk

cars hiss by my window after 3 am Suzanne Vega again has the special stereo privileges and I’ve scored soul listening rights and it’s on these long, late, lonely nights with my empty coffee cup blues and eternal thoughts of what never was that I realize I’m lucky to push out anything that might resemble […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cars Hiss By My Window, Poem, Poem: Some Late Night Junk, Some Late Night Junk, Suzanne Vega, The Doors ·
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