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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 […]Archive
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, […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
September 13, 2011 by Simon Sweetman