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February 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 155 – Brendon Pongia

Welcome to episode 155 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. Brendon Pongia is a former TV host and […]

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December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 21: Moby Grape – “Moby Grape”

Funny that I’d never heard this album, only in that I love Skip Spence, the mythology – that amazing solo album of his and so usually, when something like that comes along you work your way back through everything – and yes I’d heard of Moby Grape and heard some of their stuff, and Jefferson […]

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December 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 20: Country Joe and the Fish – “Electric Music For The Body And Mind”

It’s getting a bit stuck-record, I know, but things will change as we move into the seventies, eighties and nineties – but so far I’m liking pretty much everything I hear. And so it is with this album – and sure, I knew of Country Joe And The Fish, but really only from Woodstock and […]

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June 9, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 67 – Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

Welcome to episode 67 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting with the poet, historian and academic Jeffrey Paparoa Holman.

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January 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Start of the San Fran Sound: The West Coast Bay Area Hippie-Dippie 1960s

British rock critic Nik Cohn, writing with an outside perspective, put it simply when looking at the San Francisco Sound: “In America, acid really mattered”. Using the proceeds from his novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, the writer Ken Kesey initiated the Acid Tests; bankrolling experiments conducted by Dr. Timothy Leary – parties fuelled […]