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July 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 268: Catherine Robertson

Hi and welcome to episode 268 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it […]
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January 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 149: Simon and Nick at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival

Welcome to episode 149 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something different. Last year I was invited along to speak with Nick Bollinger at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. It was a lot of fun. Part of a magic weekend in fact. And with the permission of Nick […]
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May 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 116 – Mark Cubey

Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]
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May 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Control: When An Old Anton Corbijn Interview Gets Chopped And Screwed For Somebody Else’s Mixtape Of An Article

I spoke in a recent episode of the podcast about a time when I interviewed the great Anton Corbijn ahead of the release of his movie control. It was a piece that had been commissioned by The Listener. In the time between accepting the assignment and delivering to deadline the Arts Editor had quit, his […]
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February 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Nick Bollinger: Goneville

Goneville: A Memoir Nick Bollinger AWA Press In a stunning piece of sustained writing, Nick Bollinger’s memoir of his time running with band across the country in the 1970s, brings to mind several of his finest reviews, interviews and features – in that Bollinger’s writing always takes you there: to the music, in the music, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1970s, AWA, Book, Book Review, Goneville, Goneville: A Memoir, Kiwi, Memoir, Nick Bollinger, NZ, RNZ, Rough Justice, Sweetman Podcast Episode 42, The Listener ·

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December 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 42 – Nick Bollinger

Welcome to episode 42 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with music journalist and broadcaster Nick Bollinger. I’ve been reading Nick Bollinger’s reviews for over 20 years. He’s been writing them for more than 30. Well, as I found out when I finally sat down to talk to him, he […]
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December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year

A couple of weeks ago I left you with a list of the biggest stinkers of 2015 – and I’ve looked back through that list, they are all duds (or were duds to my ears anyway) but there isn’t an album there that stands out as the single worst thing I heard this year. I […]
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July 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 18 The Brain

At the end of the eighties Ross and Wendy had gone off to do other things. For a while the Spines was Neill and me and any ex-bass player or drummer who was in town. My partner Michelle Tayler, Linzy Forbes and I decided it was time for a full colour NZ arts magazine that […]
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January 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Philip Matthews

Philip Matthews did two stints as arts and books editor at the Listener, and was its film reviewer for a long time, before he went south and took a job as a feature writer for The Press newspaper in Christchurch in 2007. He continues to blog about film at secondstogo.blogspot.co.nz and writes regularly for Gordon […]
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November 27, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1737

Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker (2000) Got around to buying this LP a couple of years ago. The CD ran its course – and it’s nice to have this back in the collection. It’s one of only a (small) few Ryan Adams albums I care about. He has his Kool Aid-drinking defenders that talk up so many […]
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September 13, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1852

Jeff Beck, Blow By Blow (1975) An album that will forever be in my Top 10/desert island discs/best-ever list/s. I bought it – the first time – on a whim. I was in to Jeff Beck, mostly from reading about him – and from hearing some of the early material. And I bought this, on […]
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