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July 19, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Angel Dream (Songs from The Motion Picture “She’s The One”)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Angel Dream (Songs from The Motion Picture “She’s The One”) Warner Bros. We’ve been lucky to receive a lot of great Petty reissues in the wake of his death. Not too much to get your head around, nothing so cynical it feels like a cash-in, and all respectfully done. The […]Archive
August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Playlist: Fleetwood Mac World Tour 2019 Setlist
If you’re as excited as me about seeing Fleetwood Mac (aka “Finnwood Mac”) in New Zealand in September you might want to know what the band is playing. Sure, okay, you might not! So in that case click out now. But with the new line-up solidified it looks like a new setlist has taken permanent shape – […]Archive
July 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Nothing Doing
There was nothing to be done – so he set about doing that. Making sure nothing gets done is at least as hard as doing anything, harder perhaps to measure. He chose coffee cups, broken dreams and crazy schemes. And waiting… Waiting…like Tom once said, it’s the hardest part.Archive
March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 420
Jeff Lynne, Armchair Theatre (1990) I was pleased to find this. Jeff Lynne’s first solo album – arriving right at the end of the very hot streak that saw the Wilburys and all of the albums that Jeff worked on in and around that – Tom Petty, George Harrison, etc. I reckon Armchair Theatre is […]Archive
November 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Remembering The Wilburys – Especially Vol. 1
The Traveling Wilburys were a big deal to me. I remember the news item announcing them. I remember my mum and dad took us out, family outing, Friday night (late-night) shopping, to buy the cassette tape. Not only that we took it home and sat and listened to it. The whole family. It was an […]Archive
November 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Margo Price: All American Made
Margo Price All American Made Third Man Records Just as Janet Frame released To The Is-Land as a volume of her autobiography and then Owls Do Cry as fiction – the two linked, and it could even be argued that there’s more truth in her fiction, more creativity in her alleged non-fiction, the same sort […]Archive
November 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: End Of The Larkin Line
When the first Traveling Wilburys album was released we took a drive into Hastings – Friday night, late night shopping…it was me and my brother in the back of the car (our usual spots) and mum and dad up front. They bought the album – on cassette tape. No CDs then – not in our […]Archive
October 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The 1001 Albums Challenge # 14: Dusty Springfield – “A Girl Called Dusty”
I’ve always loved Dusty Springfield – right from when I first heard her, Bacharach compilations, and then finding out it was her that was the voice on that Pet Shop Boys song and from there to classic Dusty compilations, of course the Dusty in Memphis album – a masterpiece; a revelation – and not that […]Archive
October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. Tom Petty
What a day. First that awful news from Las Vegas. Many of us went to bed on that last night, woke to hear the full horror, from one death to twenty, then over 50, some 400 injured… For music fans the news didn’t get better as the new day started. First the story that Tom […]Archive
November 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Stevie Nicks: Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition)
Stevie Nicks Bella Donna (Deluxe Edition) Rhino Entertainment Company It was an interesting time – and very creative – for Fleetwood Mac and its members post-Rumours. The popular narrative suggests they never bettered it, but they did something much better in a way, they diversified. Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood both made solo records in […]Archive
October 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman