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January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition
It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]Archive
January 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Motivation
My new film script imagines a world where Richard Curtis never existed. It’s called ‘Tomorrow’.Archive
January 8, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 202: Matthew Bannister
Welcome to episode 202 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. This is episode 202 of Sweetman Podcast – my conversation with Matthew Bannister. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get […]Archive
January 5, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Yesterday: DVD
Yesterday Director: Danny Boyle Perfect World Pictures/Working Title Pictures/Decibel Films / Universal Pictures So, here’s the set-up – an earnest young singer/songwriter named Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is struggling to get anywhere and the only one that believes in him still is his friend and manager Ellie (Lily James). She’s been a fan since she […]Archive
December 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 194
The Big Dish, Prospect Street [Single] (1986) I know nothing about The Big Dish – apart from what I’ve just googled – and this single and b-side, which I’ve just listened to for the first time. Scottish band. And I can hear that instantly and line them up somewhere between Simple Minds and The Blue […]Archive
December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Chairman of the Bored
Frank Sinatra called Something by The Beatles the greatest love song of all time. Then when he sung it he ruined it by adding the name “Jack” to the end of the line about sticking around. Some people don’t know jack. But Frank knew Jack very well. Most people called him Mr. Daniel – but […]Archive
December 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 196
(The Byrds, The Byrds Play Dylan (1979) I can remember hearing this in the days before I really knew how to separate compilations from albums – and I thought man The Byrds really are hammering home the fact that they love covering Bob Dylan albums – now they’ve done a whole record of them! When […]Archive
December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Harry Nilsson: Losst And Founnd
Harry Nilsson Losst And Founnd Omnivore Recordings Well, it’s here now – you can hear it – the final (posthumous) Harry Nilsson album. The record Harry was working on in the mid-90s. He laid down the vocal cuts on what was to be his comeback album. He hadn’t recorded a record since the late-1970s; the […]Archive
December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 202
Paul McCartney, Pipes of Peace (1983) Of all the Paul McCartney material to be reissued this is the one I hated the most hearing it the second time around – I had lost love for it, rather than gained any. And I say that as a fan of the title track purely because my intermediate […]Archive
December 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Back To The Excellent: Wings’ Much Maligned But Brilliant Back To The Egg Album at 40
At some stage in the coming weeks or months or next year there will be a new reissue by Sir Paul of Macca – his often shat-on final Wings album, Back To The Egg is rumoured to be part of the next round in the ongoing reissue/reappraisal reviewing of the McCartney/Wings canon. It’s possibly my […]Archive
December 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman