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December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Features: The Beatles one by one…
About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. It started late November in 2018. Jesse Mulligan asked me if […]Archive
December 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Gig Review: Come Together – Abbey Road (December 10, Wellington)
Come Together: Abbey Road Opera House Thursday, December 10 Last year some of New Zealand’s best known, much loved musicians banded together and delivered a concert replication of Neil Young’s Live Rust album/show – I went along slightly cynical. I left impressed with the effort – it showcased that wonderful music in the very best […]Archive
December 11, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: The Solo Career of John Lennon
About once a month or so I have a long chat on RNZ about a particular music or a theme – for their regular Tuesday music features. Over the last two years, I’ve been slowly building up a chat on each of The Beatles. But how to finish with John Lennon? Well there was the […]Archive
December 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Dear Prudence,
My parents planned to name me Prudence if I was a girl. I wasn’t – so that is pretty much that. I hated the name – but loved the song; when I heard it was because my dad always loved that tune from The White Album it made more sense, or something like that. Now […]Archive
November 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Ryan Brady (Take It Away Podcast)
There’s a special bond that develops with radio hosts – and now podcast hosts – and their long-time listeners. Usually we don’t meet, we often have no idea what the person looks like. But we carry their voice in our head. We listen to them for hours and hours and we form a picture in […]Archive
October 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Ulf Wakenius: Taste of Honey
Ulf Wakenius Taste of Honey ACT Music Ulf Wakenius is a Swedish jazz guitarist that worked with both Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson later in their careers as part of trios and quartets. He’s released well over a dozen albums as a leader (going back to 1984) and has collaborated and cameoed with many artists […]Archive
August 25, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Movement You Need Is On Your Shoulder
You find wisdom in different places, it’s in the traces of what a person says. Today’s – for example: My 8-year old boy told me that Paul McCartney “might laugh a lot and giggle but he is never ever funny”. So take on board that note, as you make your sandwich, as you eat your […]Archive
August 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 273 – The Bootleg Beatles, Wellington, 2019
The Bootleg Beatles have been paying tribute to The Beatles for 40 years. And I usually think tribute acts are pretty silly and there’s something almost sublimely absurd about being a tribute band for 40 years when the real act lasted less than a decade – but hey, also The Beatles are the greatest. And […]Archive
August 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 82
The Beatles, Ticket To Ride [Single] (1965) I don’t have that many singles by The Beatles so when I saw this I had to grab it. Ticket To Ride is a song for the ages for the innovation of the drumbeat alone. One of the many examples of Ringo’s brilliance. Sample Track 1: (Side A): […]Archive
July 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Al Di Meola: Across The Universe
Al Di Meola Across The Universe EARMUSIC Look, I’ve done some things in my life that I’m ashamed of. Obviously. We all have. So I’ll admit it here. Seems the place to do it. I have – in the past – bought albums by Al Di Meola. I even liked two of them. And if […]Archive
July 23, 2020 by Simon Sweetman