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July 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 223: Lance Philip

Welcome to episode 223 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 194: Fergus Barrowman

Welcome to episode 194 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 […]
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May 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Rodger Fox Presents…Jazz Gala – Gregg Bissonette, Louis Dowdeswell, Glenn Walters (May 26, Wgtn)

Rodger Fox Presents…Jazz Gala  Memorial Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington  Sunday, May 26  For this year’s Jazz Gala Rodger Fox and his big band welcomed guests from U.S.A and England with British trumpeter Louis Dowdeswell, and Americans Glenn Walters (a journeyman soul/jazz vocalist) and superstar session drumming great Gregg Bissonette (famed for his work with Maynard Ferguson, David Lee Roth […]
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April 15, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Rodger Fox Presents… “Charlie Parker with Strings” featuring Dick Oatts 

Rodger Fox Presents… “Charlie Parker with Strings” featuring Dick Oatts  Memorial Theatre, Victoria University  Monday, April 15  Dick Oatts is a respected educator and player from America. An alto specialist, who in 1977 was shoulder-tapped to join the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. He’s also toured or recorded with the likes of Sarah Vaughan, Joe Henderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Lovano and Mel Tormé.   Here in tribute […]
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October 11, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 137 – Mary McCallum

Welcome to episode 137 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. I had a chat with Mary McCallum. She’s just published her first book of poems, the excellent XYZ of Happiness. But Mary was playing the long-game, she’s a known, established poet – having studied under Bill Manhire when his […]
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June 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 122 – Pip Adam

Welcome to episode 122 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Given her proximity to where the podcast takes place – she lives four or five houses down the road from me – it feels like it’s taken forever to get Pip Adam on the podcast. It didn’t take winning […]
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August 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 123 Union Hall – Part Two: Violent Femmes

It was packed, with students, music fans and hoons and there was a great atmosphere. The Spines were Ross, Wendy, Neill and me that night and we were up for it. We were like a huge rhythm engine in those days playing in odd funky time signatures with intense and sometimes insane vocals. We had […]
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December 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Worst Thing To Happen To Music This Year

A couple of weeks ago I left you with a list of the biggest stinkers of 2015 – and I’ve looked back through that list, they are all duds (or were duds to my ears anyway) but there isn’t an album there that stands out as the single worst thing I heard this year. I […]
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October 7, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Meehan/Griffin/Chisholm: Small Holes In The Silence

Norman Meehan/Hannah Griffin/Hayden Chisholm Small Holes In The Silence Rattle/VUP Norman Meehan’s framing of Bill Manhire poems – taking them from the page to the stage with the assistance of the pure-voiced Hannah Griffin – resulted in a winning project across the Buddhist Rain and Making Baby Float albums, across the multimedia project, These Rough […]
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May 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 79 – Woman Far Walking, Wellington, 2000

It was the “World Premiere” of a new play by Witi Ihimaera – and it was the Arts Festival. I was studying a paper at Vic Uni, one that I actually was quite into – drama department, but it was about theatre as texts more than the acting side. It was really an English paper. […]
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May 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Jack Body

Very sad news overnight, Jack Body has died. The news wasn’t – as such – a surprise. People knew that Jack was ill, that his time on this earth was coming to an end. But it is very sad news, here was a person who did so much, who gave so much – who was […]
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March 19, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 67 – The James Hardway Quartet, Wellington, 1998

I guess it must have been a University Orientation gig – judging by the date. I wasn’t a big James Hardway fan ever – but I was aware of him. Perhaps the peak of my James Hardway fandom was going to this gig. I had one of the albums – if you don’t remember what […]
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