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April 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 202 The Spicks and the Specks
They weren’t actually steel caps but they looked like they were Originally they were tramping boots I got at an op shop I wore them for the two years I was working with urethanes and fiberglass on the Hobbit So they were covered with different coloured substances, dripped over a long period At the end […]Archive
April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 201 Tora Tora Tora 2018
The big highlights were all musical ones for me this year. We played first up in the late afternoon sun. Tim and I had travelled over together, talking old times and catching up. We have all this history. He had been the drummer that replaced Caroline in the earliest days of the band and then […]Archive
March 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 200 The Last Cigarette In The World
I watch another boat in the harbour sail out Sitting on my own in the bay By the time you get to China on that slow ship I’ll have bitten all my nails and crumbled into the carpet You had no clear idea of what you’re looking for You only knew you couldn’t stay […]Archive
January 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 194 Lucy in the Sky
“It’s very strong and there are two of them on there. I’d only take it in quarters if I were you but you will have a good Easter” He looked down to the tiny rectangle of paper in his hand then put it away carefully. Ron was going to a three-day festival and he hadn’t […]Archive
January 1, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 193 Sixty/Thirty
I was thinking back to myself and what I was like at a certain stage in my life – as you do. Wondering – would I even like that person I was then or would he be able to see himself in me. Take when I was thirty… 1988 A young dad – his kids […]Archive
December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 189 Holloway Road
We rented it for a start – a small house on Holloway Road and a piece of history. Old George, who lived a few houses down and whose father had famously lived well past a hundred, told me that Winston McCarthy had grown up in our house and it had also been a shop at […]Archive
November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 188 Go To New York
Whatever I write Won’t necessarily make any sense I wouldn’t lie to you And I didn’t make it last week For whatever reason No one really noticed and I couldn’t explain There wasn’t anyone else there to blame Since then we travelled south and back And had our little adventures I found myself playing the […]Archive
November 13, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 187 The Things That Stay (Bloodmonster Part Two)
I think like most songwriters – I have my favourites amongst my own songs. In my case they are the ones I feel will still be around after my band and I have shuffled off. They tend to be the songs that other people take to their hearts – almost like I’m out of the […]Archive
October 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 185 It Hurts to Laugh and Hurts to Cry Three
Pick up the crazy pen and walk – isn’t that what they teach you at hospital school? I’ve used it as an excuse a few times before now Why dont you write me? There was the blood episode. I was allowed some thin gruel to drink and I was leaning over supping it.Archive
October 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 184 Matinee Idle
They got me in to play a track and talk about the album and it meant a lot to me. I’ve been listening to Matinee Idle ever since I found out it was on all those years ago – every public holiday in New Zealand in the afternoon. Phil O’Brien and Simon Morris have this […]Archive
September 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman