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November 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Lucy Dacus: 2019 [EP]

Lucy Dacus 2019 (ep) Matador As far as stopgap EPs go this is very good. It’s a bunch of single tracks collected up and gathered here under a clever-enough theme (holidays; a different song for each holiday, mix of covers and originals) but it ultimately exists to make sure people don’t forget about Dacus in […]

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December 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. George Michael

George Michael might have died any day across the last 15 years. The story we had – the one that was easiest to hold on to was that he was self-sabotaging and self-loathing and most certainly self-destructive. It was at least as easy to see and hear that he was a phenomenal talent. But in […]

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December 13, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Turks in Havelock North – Homecoming Xmas Eve: 80s music DJ Set (Thursday, December 24)

I’m back in Hawke’s Bay for Christmas and I’m going to be playing some 80s records down at Turks in Havelock North on Thursday, December 24. Christmas Eve. It’s an early start – 5pm, and an early finish (11.30pm for a midnight close). So that’s over six hours of my favourite tunes from the 1980s. […]

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July 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

George Michael: Symphonica

George Michael Symphonica Virgin EMI One listen to Symphonica reminds – instantly – that George Michael should be getting headlines for his voice, but it’s been years since that happened. Instead he’ll make the headlines for anything else – but most frequently it’ll involve drugs, a car or a public loo. All three at the […]

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October 8, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1818

George Michael, Faith (1987) I was never really that impressed by George Michael at the time. Of course Faith was huge and you could not escape it – like Purple Rain and Born In The USA and Thriller and She’s So Unusual and So and Actually and a few other monumentally enormous albums from the […]