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June 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: An Honest Attempt At A Winter Blues

It’s a cold winter coming, in fact it’s already here – if anything it seems to have snuck up on us this year. But I’m saying this with the heating on – and though there’s an extra blanket needed for the bed it happens to be a very small walk to the cupboard where that […]

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July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Digests: Album Reviews from 2017’s Second Quarter

I am not writing as many album reviews as I used to – 2013, 2014, 2015 and even 2016 were all very big years for album-review writing for me. I wrote hundreds. Sometimes 40 or 50 a month. For many reasons I’m not doing anywhere near that now – I have a weekly podcast I’m focussing […]

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May 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Darren Watson and Matt Langley: Shoot Your Television, NZ Tour, Winter 2015 (June/July).

This June/July Darren Watson and Matt Langley are doing what they do best – grabbing their guitars and voices and taking a tour of the country, taking their music to the people with the Shoot Your Television winter tour. Want warmth in your soul? Go and hear Kiwi Blues Legend Darren Watson and Alt-Folk Troubadour […]

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February 11, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1626

The Rolling Stones, Goats Head Soup (1973) For a lot of people this album is where The Rolling Stones started to go sour. The four albums before this are regarded as their best and – yep – it’s a great run of records. But some days Goats Head Soup is my favourite stones album. Dancing […]