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March 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 109 – Elvis Perkins

Welcome to episode 109 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with the great Elvis Perkins. This was a huge thrill to me, I’ve been a fan since his debut album, Ash Wednesday. Perkins was in New Zealand – his first visit – as part of […]

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March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

NZ Festival Writers & Readers: A C Grayling – Democracy In Crisis

A C Grayling: Democracy in Crisis Renoulf Foyer, MFC Sunday, March 11 This Writers & Readers session was a straight-up lecture by British author, philosopher, public intellectual A C Grayling. The topic Democracy in Crisis coming from his latest work, Democracy And Its Crisis. He also spoke the previous night, although I missed that on […]

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February 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Billy Bragg: Bridges Not Walls (ep)

Billy Bragg Bridges Not Walls – EP Billy Bragg/Cooking Vinyl The fucking Brexit nonsense and the rise of Trump and general non-thinking must be exciting to someone like Billy Bragg. I’m not trying to be churlish, but imagine how easy it is for him to write songs around that? Well, actually, it has proved fine […]

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June 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Waters: Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters Is This The Life We Really Want? Columbia Over a quarter century after his last studio solo album, Roger Waters returns and fittingly – since we’d already amused ourselves to death he’s now concerned with whether this is the life we really want. As if he warned us back then and we didn’t […]