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August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Drugdealer: Raw Honey
Drugdealer Raw Honey Mexican Summer/Southbound This, the second album by Drugdealer – a name given to a project helmed by late-blooming wunderkind Michael Collins – is another clever selection of Record Collection Pop; songs you could fool yourself into thinking you’re sure you’ve heard before. A trace of Beach Boys here, some summer 70s feel-good daze there. But actually it’s […]Archive
May 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Todd Rundgren: The Individualist – Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations
The Individualist – Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations Todd Rundgren CLEOPATRA; First edition When I first heard Something/Anything? it blew my mind. It still does actually. Regularly. I knew about Todd Rundgren the guitarist and producer – with credits ranging from Meat Loaf and XTC through to creating the score for the movie Dumb and Dumber…but I had never heard any […]Archive
April 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
XTC – This Is Pop: Film
XTC: This Is Pop Directors: Roger Penny, Charlie Thomas Special Treats Distribution We open with Andy Partridge giving us one of those I’m not gonna give you a quote-quotes: “Rockumentaries, I really dislike them. They always have that lugubrious keyboard player from that prog rock group…” Cue interview snippet from Rick Wakeman.Archive
March 27, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Todd Rundgren: White Knight
Todd Rundgren White Knight Cleopatra Todd Rundgren knows a thing or two about making mixed-bag albums – but he also knows that if you keep experimenting and collaborating you find magic. And there’s plenty of good stuff here on White Knight, an album of profound and perplexing collaborations that very much vacillates from the sublime […]Archive
February 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 36: Chicago – “Chicago Transit Authority”
I know the key songs already – singles, a few of the album tracks too, sixties compilations… And I know plenty of other stuff by Chicago – but I’d never heard this, their debut album right through. Until just recently. It’s a curio, as anything from the past is – ultimately. But there’s a lot in this. So […]Archive
December 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 191 Something/Anything?
I Saw The Light was the first song I heard and I remember it was at one of those new-fangled Jeans Stores that were cropping up in Hamilton when I was in high school. I was there with my girlfriend and we were having a crafty pash in a dressing booth and the song came […]Archive
September 25, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 181 On The Air – Part Two
When I got the call to be interviewed on the national radio station on a music subject that I knew well it was always going to be about Wellington. I did toy briefly with the idea of talking about Todd Rundgren for half an hour but got talked out of it. I really loved the […]Archive
June 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
From The Archives: The Todd Rundgren Interview
A few years ago Todd Rundgren toured New Zealand with a ‘blues’ show. It wasn’t very good – but the two-song encore (I Saw The Light and Can We Still Be Friends) was worth the price of admission. I wish he’d tour here again, maybe with his solo piano show, with anything in fact… I […]Archive
January 18, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Field Music (Measure): A Work of Genius
Field Music (Measure) is the third album by British band Field Music. The band is basically brothers David and Peter Brewis (with some occasional outside help). Have you heard it? Do you know about them? I’d heard the name before but I hadn’t heard the band’s 2005 debut Field Music, nor the follow-up from 2007, […]Archive
December 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Todd Rundgren: An Evening With Todd Rundgren – Live At The Ridgefield
Todd Rundgren An Evening With Todd Rundgren: Live at the Ridgefield Purple Pyramid Todd isn’t slowing down – a couple of new studio albums just last year, and now a big show; yet another live album. It depends of course what Todd you get, and the Todd you get is – usually – the Todd […]Archive
December 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman