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February 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 14 Nik Cohn

It’s hard naming favourite music writers, like being forced to pick a favourite band I guess. You don’t always want to listen to The Beatles or much as Kendrick Lamar might take your fancy you can’t just listen to only that. It’s the same with great writers – you get different things from different people. […]
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August 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 29 – Sylvie Simmons

Welcome to episode 29 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a chat with Sylvie Simmons – that’s Sylvie Simmons the music writer, Leonard Cohen biographer and MOJO staff writer, legendary rock writer who was on the tour bus with Black Sabbath and Van Halen, who published the first interview […]
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July 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Tour Diary: # 3 – Past The Mission – I Don’t Believe I Went Too Far…

Chinatown lured us back with its promise of cheap shit. Even some Lip Shit. Passed on that. But we did buy some of the I HEART SAN FRANCISCO-type memorabilia; you can justify it when you’re disguising it as a kid’s t-shirt purchase. We also went to the Eastern Bakery for something called a butter and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 3, America, Beach Boys, Books, Chinatown, Ennio Morricone, Golden Gate Bridge, Luchador, Masks, Mission District, Past The Mission, Podcast, San Fran, San Francisco, Seattle, Sylvie Simmons, Tour Diary, Tour Diary # 3, Tour Diary: # 3 – Past The Mission – I Don’t Believe I Went Too Far…, Travel Writing, U.S.A, United States, USA, Walking, Writing ·

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May 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 21 – Jesse Sheehan

Here we are now with episode 21 of the podcast. A conversation with Jesse Sheehan. He’s a young guy with talent. I knew that when I first heard him – he has that effect. He’s most certainly one to watch I reckon. And in fact I have found some of his life performances jaw-droppingly good. […]
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November 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Sylvie Simmons: Sylvie

Sylvie Simmons Sylvie Light In The Attic Sylvie Simmons’ songs are like whispered kisses, Howe Gelb’s thoughtful production means these songs almost arrive as if sung down the phone line, all that’s missing is the crackle of the fire – and you can certainly imagine that. This is Sylvie Simmons’ debut album. She’s best known […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Howe Gelb, Leonard Cohen, Sylvie, Sylvie Simmons ·

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September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 5 Sylvie Simmons

I started reading about music when I was 10. That’s about when I started really obsessively listening to music too – buying tapes and reading music magazines. Then it was to bios – I read about The Stones and The Beatles and some of it went over my head but that was okay, I would […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged America, Author, Authors I Admire, Authors I Admire # 5, Authors I Admire: #5 Sylvie Simmons, Interview, Journalist, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Music Journalism, Music Writing, Neil Young, On Song, Phantom Billstickers, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon Sweetman, SS, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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August 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1066

Serge Gainsbourg avec Alain Goraguer Et Son Orchestre, No. 2 (1959) I really don’t have a memory of “discovering” Serge Gainsbourg – nor did I “grow up with” his music. Sylvie Simmons’ bio was formative, but I read that having already experienced some of the music; I think Serge was simply a name that was […]
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January 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Darran Anderson: Histoire de Melody Nelson (33 1/3)

Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson (33 1/3) Darran Anderson Bloomsbury Academic It’s not the job of the wee books in the wonderful 33 1/3 series to give you a potted biography – they might also do that, but the chief concern is the album over the artist. We often find the two are inseparable […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 33 1/3, A Fistful of Gitanes, Book Review, Darran Anderson, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Melody, Sege, Serge Gainsbourg, Sylvie Simmons ·

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January 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 11: Kraftwerk, Sydney 2013

Here’s something that never happens – well, has never happened before – EVER – for me. I was flown over to Sydney to see Kraftwerk. Earlier this year. Man! It was the best. I’d have to think of the first Kraftwerk gig as the best of the year in 2013. One of the best ever. […]
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October 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Lou Reed

There are things you never think you’ll write – never plan, never want to. This is one of those. I never wanted to interview Lou Reed (but of course I’d have given it a go), never planned to see him live (I mean I’d have gone if he’d been in my town when I was, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Eulogy, Lou Reed, Obituary, R.I.P., Sylvie Simmons, The Velvet Underground ·

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June 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Sylvie Simmons: I’m Your Man – The Life Of Leonard Cohen

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen Sylvie Simmons Vintage Books We only know so much about Leonard Cohen from his poems and songs – he is both diarist and then in the truest sense of autobiography he is the unreliable narrator. With Cohen, mostly, you can tell he’s doing that on purpose, as […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Biography, Book Review, I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen, Music Book, Phil Spector, Poetry, Sylvie Simmons ·

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June 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1362

The Phoenix Foundation, Fandango (2013) Okay, so I’ve already reviewed the album, yes, but in that review I suggested the band had made three-quarters of a good/great double-album. And so I had to get the full four-sided experience – even though I claimed to never want to hear side four (one whole side dedicated to […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 2013, 2LP, Black Mould, Fandango, Sylvie Simmons, The Phoenix Foundation, Vinyl ·
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