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November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Bottling Up Memorabilia: Remembering That Time I Was Given Bobby Womack’s Water Bottle

There to the left is a picture of a water bottle. I’m sure many of you spotted that straight away and had it all worked out before you read this. You looked at the picture and just drew your own conclusion. You didn’t need me to tell you what it was. You knew already. It […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Australia, Bobby Womack, Bottling Up Memorabilia, Bottling Up Memorabilia: Remembering That Time I Was Given Bobby Womack’s Water Bottle, Memorabilia, Remembering That Time I Was Given Bobby Womack’s Water Bottle, Sydney, Vivid Festival, Water Bottle ·

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October 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, 2013

It can’t be often you get to see two of the best gigs you could ever see in one night – well it happened to me once. Same band too – Kraftwerk playing their classic albums through one by one. Eight albums across four nights, two shows a night and I got to hear the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, 3D, Australia, Autobahn, Classic Album, Classic Albums, Kraftwerk, Live, Live Gig, Opera House, Radio-Activity, Radioactivity, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Vivid Festival ·

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September 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #142 – Heritage Orchestra: Music from Blade Runner, Sydney, 2013

I think back now and perhaps I liked this show a bit more than I let on at the time. Well, no maybe that’s not quite it, maybe I explained myself and the show just fine at the time. But I catch myself thinking about this show – Vangelis’ music from the film Blade Runner […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, Australia, Blade Runner, Bobby Womack's Water Bottle, Gig Review, Heritage Orchestra, Live, Live Gig, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #142 – Heritage Orchestra: Music from Blade Runner, Sydney, Vangelis, Vivid Festival ·

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June 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #98 – Bobby Womack, Sydney, 2013

I was flown to Sydney, Australia for the Vivid Festival one year. A real treat – got to see some cool talks and shows, and I have friends in Sydney so I got to hang with them. I was put up in a hotel, I met some other music-peeps in Australia and was generally treated […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, Australia, Bobby Womack, Gig, Live Gig, R.I.P., Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #98 – Bobby Womack, Sydney, Vivid Festival ·

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September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Authors I Admire: # 5 Sylvie Simmons

I started reading about music when I was 10. That’s about when I started really obsessively listening to music too – buying tapes and reading music magazines. Then it was to bios – I read about The Stones and The Beatles and some of it went over my head but that was okay, I would […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged America, Author, Authors I Admire, Authors I Admire # 5, Authors I Admire: #5 Sylvie Simmons, Interview, Journalist, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Music Journalism, Music Writing, Neil Young, On Song, Phantom Billstickers, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon Sweetman, SS, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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June 28, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack has died. He was 70. I was pretty sure he was so close to dead when, roughly a year ago, I saw him stumble and bumble his way through a concert in Sydney, Australia. He had not turned up the night before, two nights reduced to one. And he struggled. Almost immediately. And […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Across 110th Street, All Over Now, Bobby Womack, Eulogy, R.I.P., The Bravest Man In The Universe, The Poet, The Poet II, Vivid Festival ·

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January 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

It Was The Best Gig Ever # 11: Kraftwerk, Sydney 2013

Here’s something that never happens – well, has never happened before – EVER – for me. I was flown over to Sydney to see Kraftwerk. Earlier this year. Man! It was the best. I’d have to think of the first Kraftwerk gig as the best of the year in 2013. One of the best ever. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3D, Australia, Best Gig, It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 11, Kraftwerk, Live, Phantom Billstickers, Sydney, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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July 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1339

Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity (1975) A strange album for some, but I really like this. I wasn’t going to pick up the new vinyl version – until I scored a trip to Sydney recently and saw the album performed in its entirety. As part of the build-up for that trip I bought this album – it’s now […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Autobahn, Kraftwerk, Live, Radio-Activity, Radioland, Sydney, Vinyl, Vivid Festival ·

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June 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Vivid Festival: Inside The Evolving World of Photojournalism, Photo Agencies and Newspapers

Inside The Evolving World of Photojournalism, Photo Agencies and Newspapers Panel Discussion: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Saturday, May 25 Panel discussions seldom resolve anything they set out to, often they don’t even make it over the line – just leaving questions, the speakers either cutting each other off or they’re not guided correctly by […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2013, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Panel Discussion, Photography, Photojournalism, Reportage Festival, Sydney, Vivid Festival ·

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June 3, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Alan Cross: Kraftwerk – The Secret History

Kraftwerk: The Secret History Alan Cross Audio Joe/Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Alan Cross has pumped out a few Kindle Singles that trace around a band’s chronology. This one is about Kraftwerk and will take 20 minutes to read – max. And you have to wonder why there is a need for such things these days […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Alan Cross, Amazon, Book Review, Kindle Single, Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk: The Secret History, Vivid Festival, Wikipedia ·

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May 31, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

David Buckley: Kraftwerk – Publikation

Kraftwerk: Publikation David Buckley Omnibus Press Well this book arrived at a good time for me I guess. Already on a bit of a Kraftwerk kick I then get invited to review not one but two shows from the band’s recent Catalogue Series at Sydney’s Vivid Festival. Special shows they were too, particularly the first […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Andy McCluskey, Biography, Book Review, David Buckley, Karl Bartos, Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk: Publikation, OMD, Ralf Hutter, Vivid Festival ·

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May 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Heritage Orchestra Performs Music From Blade Runner – Vivid Festival (May 26, Sydney)

Heritage Orchestra: Music From Blade Runner Vivid Festival: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House Sunday, May 26 Originally commissioned for the UK Meltdown Festival (by Massive Attack, no less) the Heritage Orchestra of Great Britain combines a full orchestral score and the ambient/electronica sweeps via found percussion and analogue synths. This performance of Vangelis’ Blade Runner […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Blade Runner, Classical, Concert Hall, Gig Review, Heritage Orchestra, Jules Buckley, New American Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, Vangelis, Vivid Festival ·
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