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June 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Pink Floyd Tapes
12 and 13 and 14 years old and listening to Pink Floyd tapes. Roger Waters’ first two solo albums too. But it was the Floyd stuff that meant the most to me. Had me copying out the lyrics on an old typewriter. (Doing it the old-fashioned way). pause/rewind/play/ pause/rewind/play/ pause/rewind/play/ Syd Barrett’s solo material next. […]Archive
April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Rick-Rolling Through My Tape Collection: Remembering The Generation of Cassette Tapes
I own Rick Astley’s Whenever You Need Somebody on tape. I bought it when it was released. I found that old tape just recently. (I have it on vinyl as well – nutcase!) Buying tapes – it dates you. I mowed lawns to earn money to buy tapes. Then I’d listen to the new tape […]Archive
April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Particle Kid: Everything Is Bullshit
Particle Kid Everything Is Bullshit Particle Kid/Gnar Tapes One of two Particle Kid albums ripped out in the same year, Everything Is Bullshit is a strange world of magic. It reminds me of One Foot In The Grave-era Beck, not so much for the sound as for the surprises. It’s as wilful as Neil Young […]Archive
March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
girlboss: Body Con
girlboss Body Con [ep] Ball of Wax Records A couple of years back I saw girlboss – then just a duo – and I’ve been waiting for some recordings ever since. Now, it’s a full band – still based around the singing and songs of guitarist/vocalist Lucy Botting, but augmented not only by Douglas Kelly’s […]Archive
March 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Sometimes You Kick, Sometimes You Get Kicked
the INXS Kick album is 30 years old. I remember it so well. (Still dig it – Side One especially). It’s linked to when I had my first overseas trip. To the Gold Coast and Sydney. I’d saved my pocket money for a Walkman. My folks were going to buy me some jeans. Basketball boots […]Archive
November 17, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 470
Bob Dylan, Infidels (1983) One of the first Bob Dylan albums I heard – and owned – I had the cassette tape first, graduated on to the CD. Never had the LP – until just very recently. But always loved this. Killer set of songs, amazing band, packed with legends – and it has the […]Archive
October 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
DJ OBOE: DJ OBOE
DJ OBOE DJ OBOE (Independent/Bandcamp) Riki Gooch is a drummer, produce and beatmaker. He’s been both band-leader and sideman and a DJ in various guises. He’s been making music under various aliases (Eru Dangerspiel, Cave Circles, Nil-Nil) across the last decade and a half and has been behind the kit (and sometime the MPC/sampler) for […]Archive
February 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
What’s The Most You’ve Spent On A Record?
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a single album? I ask this because I had a flashback to a garage sale we had – the one and only garage sale I’ve hosted/been to. My parents were moving to a new house oh, nearly 20 years ago now. And they wanted to get rid […]Archive
October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
What Matters Most Is The Music: It’s Not How You Listen – It’s That You Listen
Audio streaming has now beaten video streaming – or put simply, Spotify means more to people than YouTube. Okay, that’s putting it very simply but that’s – basically – the news. Record companies are only just cottoning on to YouTube, thinking video might help them sell audio. But audio is being taken for free – […]Archive
March 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Butcher Brown: GrownFolk
Butcher Brown GrownFolk Thrash Flow The Butcher Brown sound is mellow and warm and lovely – a floating feeling as background dinner-jazz is dirtied up just enough; some grit applied so that before your eyes (well, ears) you’re transported into the world of instrumental hip-hop. These are real-time, really played live loops – the sorts […]Archive
June 1, 2015 by Simon Sweetman