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August 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 130 – Bill Manhire
Welcome to episode 130 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. It’s Poetry Day! So I had a chat with Bill Manhire. We had in fact planned this for last year’s Poetry Day but I dropped the ball I guess, got behind, I can’t quite remember…but I do know I’ve […]Archive
July 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 124 – Bill Direen
Welcome to episode 124 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. I was chuffed to finally get to have a good long yarn with Bill Direen; to meet him even. We’d never met though we had corresponded. I had reached out to him a while back to podcast – and […]Archive
February 19, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 197 Second Time Around
I know I’ve been quiet lately The last year’s health problems flared up again and kind of laid me low This time around I didn’t take myself off to the hospital I just tried to deal with the problems from home and finally go looking for a doctor my own Meanwhile I didn’t feel I […]Archive
February 2, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 101 – Ant Donaldson
Welcome to episode 101 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat with legendary Wellington drummer Ant Donaldson. I met Ant a few years back – having been an admirer of his playing across so many bands. The Razorblade, The Mantarays, The Six Volts/Front Lawn, The Labcoats, The […]Archive
June 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Holly Walker: The Whole Intimate Mess
The Whole Intimate Mess: Motherhood, Politics, and Women’s Writing Holly Walker BWB Texts Holly Walker was a Rhodes Scholar, a Green MP and she wanted to be a mother. In this short volume of memoir she tells of how leaning in too far caused her to topple over. She picks up the pieces of herself […]Archive
May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 62 – Sarah Jane Barnett
Welcome to episode 62 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, L’affare and Yeastie Boys. This one is a conversation with writer Sarah Jane Barnett. I met Sarah through mutual friends, but before that I had written about how much I loved her first book. She’s since released a second book of poems which […]Archive
August 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 126 Post Office
In early 1984 the band was on hold. I’d recorded Act Your Age in Auckland almost as a solo album and I had two children on the way – I needed to get a job. Michelle and I were living in the big warehouse on Wakefield Street and I had been doing a bit of […]Archive
July 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 122 Strathmore
I had to move out of the place I was in – I loved it but simply couldn’t afford to live there on my own. It had a little shed where I had worked on the Blood Monster album and was close to town. One night at Bodega some drinking buddies said they had a […]Archive
June 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman