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December 31, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

RNZ Feature: Dave Dobbyn’s Classic Trilogy of Albums

I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums and I also do a bunch of Music Features. And last Christmas season I was invited onto one of the holiday shows to talk about Damon Albarn and play some of his music. When I was asked to come up with something for this season […]

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August 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 508

V/A, Pulp Fiction [OST] (1994) I saw the film six times on the big screen. I went to it three days in a row. Final year of school. Friday afternoon. So good we could only talk about it all night after, on the piss, already quoting lines. So back the next day with a new […]

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March 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Dave Dobbyn: Harmony House

Dave Dobbyn Harmony House Dave Dobbyn Here is the new Dave Dobbyn album – his first in eight years. Yes! If you’ve been waiting, you’ve been waiting too long… Beginning with Waiting For A Voice, its title perhaps giving us a clue behind the delay between records, we’re in a different world, particularly as album […]

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March 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 16 – Dave Dobbyn

Some big news for Episode 16 of Sweetman Podcast – first of all it’s a two-hour chat with Dave Dobbyn. We’re talking about his brand new album, Harmony House – you can even hear some snippets from the album ahead of its release at the end of this week. But of course we talk about […]

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December 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Kina Sai

Kina Sai is an Auckland musician who goes under the moniker Sinatra Frank. Here are, ahem, “five films” that say with her… I’ve realised through this exercise I don’t watch movies. The last time I was seriously watching movies was when I was a teenager and when I was a teenager it was the nineties. […]