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January 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Pre-Panel: The Story of the Day (Jan 27, 30, 31)
Last week I had my secod go on the Pre-Panel on RNZ. Well, actually I had my second run of three goes… The Panel runs from 4-5pm but at 3.45pm they have the “Pre-Panel” where Wallace Chapman introduces the guests and the question of the day and they get a producer or a guest (or […]Archive
October 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Celebrating Fifty Years of Abbey Road
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But now and then I present features on the show too. Last year I had nearly an hour to explore the music of George Harrison. I followed that up with a chat about Ringo Starr and played some of his best Beatles drum bits […]Archive
September 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Pre-Panel: The Story of the Day (Sept 11, 12, 13)
Last week I had my first go on the Pre-Panel on RNZ. Well, actually I had my first three goes… The Panel runs from 4-5pm but at 3.45pm they have the “Pre-Panel” where Wallace Chapman introduces the guests and the question of the day and they get a producer or a guest (or whatever) to […]Archive
August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: August 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… On […]Archive
April 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: April 2019
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so now four years into it or so… This […]Archive
March 12, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ: The Panel – What Makes Collectors Tick?
Usually when I’m on RNZ it’s to review albums – sometimes a concert or a feature. But the other week I got another call-up to have a wee crack on the Panel (w/ Wallace Chapman). They were talking about collecting and collectors. And there was a news story about a TradeMe auction for clearance stock from Real Groovy’s […]Archive
January 30, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ: The Panel – Suffering Through Q and A’s
Usually when I’m on RNZ it’s to review albums – sometimes a concert or a feature. But last week I got to have a wee crack on the Panel (w/ Wallace Chapman). Seems my review of Nick Cave’s recent Q & A show struck either chords or nerves or both. And so I was asked on for a brief […]Archive
October 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Feature: Music-related novels
I’m usually on RNZ once a month to have a chat about some new albums. But the other day I got the call up to present a Music Feature for the Afternoons show. This topic was Music-related novels – books written about music and musicians that are not biographies, not non-fiction. We played some songs and talked about […]Archive
January 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Wallace Chapman: Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There Wallace Chapman Penguin A charismatic presence across TV (Back Benches) and radio (most recently on RadioLIVE, about to move to Radio New Zealand National), Wallace Chapman now turns his hand to a book that is one part slow-living manifesto, one-part memoir. Well of course the two have to be […]Archive
December 5, 2012 by Simon Sweetman