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March 7, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 158 – Caroline Easther

Welcome to episode 158 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. This week I have a chat with […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Barry Saunders, Beat Rhythm Fashion, Caroline Easther, Chat, Conversation, Drummer, Drumming, Drums, ep 158, Hobnail Boots, Interview, La Petite Chocolat, Let's Planet, Music, Musician, Simon Sweetman, Songwriter, Spines, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 158, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 158 – Caroline Easther, T Leaf T, The Chills, The Warratahs, Throw, Verlaines, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 217 – Verlaines, Wellington, 2016

Shit this was good. I mean great. I mean really fucking good. Cos for some reason I kinda wasn’t expecting it to be. I love the Verlaines, sure. But I’d seen The Chills the night previous (this was billed as “The Dunedin Double” – though it was arbitrary, no anniversary or anything…) and I just […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Alternative, Arts Festival, Chills, Dunedin Double, Gig, Gig Review, Live, Live Gig, Music, Pop, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 217, Stubs: # 217 – Verlaines, The Chills, The Verlaines, Verlaines, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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June 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 25 – Roger Shepherd

Welcome to episode 25 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by our brand new sponsor, Phantom Billstickers. This episode features a chat with Roger Shepherd, the guy that started Flying Nun Records, the guy who has written the fantastic memoir, In Love With These Times – My Life With Flying Nun Records.
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 0800phantom.co.nz, Auckland, Autobiography, Book, Chris Knox, Christchurch, Converation, David Kilgour, Doug Hood, Dunedin Sound, Ep.25, Episode 25, Flying Nun, FNR, HarperCollins, HDU, In Love With These Times, In Love With These Times: My Life With Flying Nun Records, Interview, L'affare, London, Memoir, Music, My Life With Flying Nun Records, NZ Music, Phantom Billstickers, Podcast, Roger Shepherd, Simon Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 25 – Roger Shepherd, The Bats, The Chills, The Clean, Verlaines, Wellington, Writing, Yeastie Boys ·

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May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month

It’s always slightly depressing to me somehow – why we need one at all and who it’s for exactly. Growing up as a kid in the sixties most of the ‘homegrown’ music we heard was local cover versions of overseas artists songs – almost like a karaoke country or lamb dressed as mutton. There were […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Art, Barry Saunders, Beat Rhythm Fashion, Body Electric, Dave Dobbyn, Fat Freddy's Drop, Flying Nun, Front Lawn, Guest Blog, Guest Post, Jews Brothers, Jive Bombers, Jon Mcleary, Midge Marsden Band, Muttonbirds, Nambassa, Negative Theatre, Neil Finn, New Zealand Music, New Zealand Music Commission, New Zealand Music Month, New Zealand On Air, NZMM, Orchestra of Spheres, Radio With Pictures, Rip It Up, Shona Laing, Six Volts, Sneaky Feelings, Songwriting, Spines, Steroids, The Chills, The Ghost of Electricity, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110, The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 110 New Zealand Music Month, The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival, The Spines, Tim Finn, TrinityRoots, Verlaines, War Stories, War Stories # 110, Writing ·

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April 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Carter/Morley/Yeats: Two Gigs (Akld/Wgtn) April, 2016

Audio Foundation presents Carter/Morley/Yeats in Wellington and Auckland – late April, 2016. The incendiary trio of Shayne Carter, Michael Morley and Robbie Yeats has been blowing minds over the last two years with their rare performances. First formed to play an impromptu set at a friend’s wedding, the band has recently played a bunch of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2016), Akld, Auckland, Audio Foundation, Bored Games, Carter, Carter/Morley/Yeats, Carter/Morley/Yeats: Two Gigs (Akld/Wgtn) April, Dimmer, Double Happys, Dunedin, Gate, Gig Annoucement, http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQD93VFof4, Michael Morley, MOON, Morley, Nowhere! Festival, NZ, PR, Promo, Robbie Yeats, Shayne Carter, Straitjacket Fits, The Dead C, Tour Announcement, undertheradar.co.nz, Verlaines, Wellington, Wgtn, Yeats ·

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March 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Verlaines (March 9, Wgtn)

Verlaines Shed 6 Wednesday, March 9 In 1982 The Dunedin Double was released, a double EP featuring the music of four Flying Nun groups, this year’s festival is celebrating that landmark recording with two of the bands from that compilation appearing across two evenings. The first night saw The Chills run through their pure pop, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Arts Festival, Dominion Post, Dunedin Double, Festival of the Arts, Gig Review, Gig Review: The Chills (March 8, Gig Review: Verlaines (March 9, Graeme Downes, Jane Dodd, Live, Live Gig, NZ Festival, Robbie Yeats, Shed 6, Stuff.co.nz, The Chills, The Dunedin Double, The Verlaines, Verlaines, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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March 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: The Chills (March 8, Wgtn)

The Chills Shed 6 Tuesday, March 8 In 1982 The Dunedin Double was released, a double EP featuring the music of four Flying Nun groups, this year’s festival is celebrating that landmark recording with two of the bands from that compilation appearing across two evenings. First up, The Chills. Martin Phillipps, with a breathy voice […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2016), Arts Festival, Dominion Post, Festival of the Arts, Gig Review, Gig Review: The Chills (March 8, Heavenly Pop Hit, Leather Jacket, Live, Live Review, March 8, Martin Phillipps, NZ Festival, Stuff.co.nz, The Big Chills, The Chills, The Dunedin Double, Tuesday, Verlaines, Wgtn ·

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May 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader: Issue # 3

The crew from Phantom Billstickers have sent issue number three of the Café Reader out to the streets. You’ll find it in music stores, cafés, bars and restaurants around your town. If you can’t find it let them know I reckon they’ll find a way to get a copy to you. It’s a FREE magazine […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Alice, Anahera Gildea, Brett Lupton, Bruce Mahalaski, Cafe Reader, Chris Moar, Creative Writing, Free, Garth Cartwright, George Henderson, Graeme Downes, Hayley Theyers, Issue # 3, Jeanne Bernhardt, Jeffrey Paparoa Holman, Jenny Powell, Jim Wilson, Liz Breslin, Magazine, Memoir, Music, Phantom Billstickers, Phantom Billstickers Cafe Reader, Poems, Poetry, Promo, Richard Langston, Sam Hunt, Short Stories, Simon Sweetman, Street Press, Tourettes, Tuisata Avia, Verlaines, Winter Edition, Writing ·

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March 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Verlaines: Hallelujah All The Way Home [Reissue]

The Verlaines Hallelujah All The Way Home [Reissue] Captured Tracks/Flying Nun You listen to these Flying Nun reissues and just want to shout, er, Hallelujah; just want to say god bless you to Captured Tracks and to the new direction of Flying Nun for organising the partnership to see albums like this reissued, let loose […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Captured Tracks, Flying Nun, Graeme Downes, Hallelujah All The Way Home, Reissue, The Verlaines, Verlaines ·

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January 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1204

Verlaines, Juvenalia (1987) I’m stoked to have the newly reissued Verlaines albums on vinyl – and I must tell you I wasn’t an instant convert to Juvenalia. I liked the Verlaines but I just had dubbed tapes, songs that were on compilations and a band best-of, You’re Just Too Obscure For Me. That was doing […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1987, Death & The Maiden, Doomsday, Flying Nun, Graeme Downes, Juvenalia, LP, Reissue, Richard Langston, Verlaines, Vinyl ·

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January 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1209

The Verlaines, Hallelujah All The Way Home (1985) I’ve liked The Verlaines for a long time – but until very recently I had never heard this album. I had the new “comeback” stuff, I had a handful of other records – a compilation and I had the album that came after this, but I never […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1985, Flying Nun, Hallelujah All The Way Home, It Was Raining, LP, Reissue, Verlaines, Vinyl ·

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