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August 18, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Gunter Herbig: Flower of the Sea

Gunter Herbig Flower of The Sea Rattle Gunter Herbig was born in Brazil and raised in Portugal and Germany – he’s been in New Zealand since 1989, where he has continued to be a citizen of the world in a touring and performing sense, taking his solo guitar shows around the world. But New Zealand […]
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August 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Take Two Woodstock 99 Documentaries And Make One Dark Reminder of Misogyny (And Shit Music)

I watched all three episodes back-to-back of Netflix’s Woodstock 99 documentary, Trainwreck. Twitter had told me it was compelling and awful and hard to look away, Twitter was outraged, as Twitter so often is. But Twitter probably wasn’t entirely wrong. And, anyway, I had actual friends who had told me that I should see the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Doco, Documentary, Essay, HBO, Music, Neon, Netflix, Take Two, Take Two Woodstock 99 Documentaries And Make One Dark Reminder of Misogyny, Take Two Woodstock 99 Documentaries And Make One Dark Reminder of Misogyny (And Shit Music), To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV, Woodstock, Woodstock 99 ·

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August 15, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

How We Listen To – and Collect – Music Has Always Been Changing

One of the ways I discovered new music was having to learn songs to play in a band – anyone who has learnt covers for a band will know that it can be the quickest way to kill a song; you like it the first time, then you really like it when you play it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, CD, Collecting, Collection, Compact Disc, Download, DVD, Essay, How We Listen To – and Collect – Music Has Always Been Changing, Mixtape, Music, Record, Spotify, Streaming, Tape, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, VHS, Vinyl, YouTube ·

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August 14, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Nope: Film

Nope Director: Jordan Peele Universal Pictures / Monkeypaw Productions Jordan Peele’s third film is going to divide fans – and I’m sure he’d like that. He’s operating on a level where his movies reward repeat viewings, contain deep-cut attention from a huge film and pop-culture geek and also have such a strong social conscience/political narrative […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Daniel Kaluuya, Film, Film Review, Horror, Jordan Peele, Keith David, Monkeypaw Productions, Movie, Movie Review, Nope, Nope: Film, Sci-Fi, Steven Yeun, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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August 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

My Regression: Reading Novelisations, Watching TV Movies

I am regressing somewhat into an interesting focus within my areas of interest – movies, music and books. I’ve only just noticed this. A pattern. I’m obsessed with collecting soundtrack albums (on CD) which I’ve decided is a very benign and in-character form of late mid-life crisis. This is healthy-enough and not hurting anyone. I […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 80s, 90s, Blog, Book, CD, Collecting, Comfort, Essay, Film, Movie, My Regression, My Regression: Reading Novelisations Watching TV Movies, Novelisation, Reading, Reading Novelisations, Regression, Soundtrack, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV, TV Movie, Watching TV Movies ·

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August 12, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

My New Single Is Available Now – Second Storey Teller: The Residuals

My third single is available for free/pay what you like over on Bandcamp. It’s called Have You Ever Been Experienced?  This is part of the soft-launch of my spoken-word+beats side-hustle which is a lark that I’m loving. Earlier in the month I released my first full album, Everybody Wants To Fool The World. But Experienced is not part of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bandcamp, Garageband, Music, My New Single Is Available Now, My New Single Is Available Now – Second Storey Teller: The Residuals, Poetry, Second Storey Teller, Second Storey Teller: The Residuals, Short Story, Single, Soundcloud, Spoken Word, Story, The Residuals, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here ·

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August 8, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bring Concert Films Back To the Big Screen

Going to the movies these days – the return to cinema – is a little like going to a concert. Certain screenings anyway. Recenty, I was at The Roxy for one of their fun, retro screenings. This time it was Army of Darkness. And it was beautiful. Such a funny film, all those great one-liners. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Back To the Big Screen, Big Screen, Blog, Bring Concert Films Back To the Big Screen, Concert, Concert Films, Doco, Documentary, Music Films, Neil Young, Rock-Doc, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Year of the Horse ·

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August 6, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

A Very Benign And In-Character Midlife Crisis: I’m Back Buying CDs

But it is only a very specific type and only at a set price. I won’t pay more than $5 for a CD.  (Well, sometimes rules are made to be broken). And I am basically only buying soundtrack albums, instrumental scores. Well, I’ve busted outside of the lines a few times, but it’s the same […]
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August 3, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Elizabeth – A Portrait in Part(s): DVD

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) Director: Roger Michell Madman With its pleased-with-itself subtitle (that doesn’t seem to actually mean anything) Roger Michell’s documentary about the Queen is less a portrait and more a series of scrapbooks; in fact, with its incongruous music, it’s more some sort of smug mixtape. No talking heads. No revelations. And […]
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August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Remembering When The Ultimate Warrior Wrote Me A Christmas Card

I loved the Ultimate Warrior. And yet I can’t ever feel completely satisfied with that one sentence. It’s the love of guilty pleasure and therefore needs justification. It is like saying, hypothetically, “I love Kylie Minogue’s Greatest Hits” – or “I really like The Spice Girls Movie”. But just as it could be suggested that […]
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August 2, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

#NewFoundPoems

I found some old books on the shelf – very old books, 10c finds from Church fairs from years and years ago. I started scratching out certain words to make new poems. It was fun. Doing it on the fly. One take. If I scratched too far – or took out the wrong word – […]
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August 1, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Isn’t Music The Best? Oh, And How Good Are Rhetorical Questions By The Way?

Hey there, and guess what? I found – on vinyl! – (I always hear that in the voice from Half Baked when they say, “on weed!”) the score to Twin Peaks. I consider this a holy grail, basically. I am so thrilled to have this. I didn’t have time to sit and listen to it […]
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