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October 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 236: Claire Mabey (Verb Festival)

Welcome to episode 236 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys 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 […]
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September 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 278 – Teju Cole: Blind Spot, Wellington, 2018

Most days I think about Teju Cole’s book Blind Spot (and how wonderful it is). And sometimes I remember how lucky I was to see him not just once but twice in the same weekend. Just recently I found the stub for that first show – and remembered that it was slightly derailed by tech […]
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January 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 149: Simon and Nick at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival

Welcome to episode 149 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here’s something different. Last year I was invited along to speak with Nick Bollinger at the Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival. It was a lot of fun. Part of a magic weekend in fact. And with the permission of Nick […]
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October 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Even More Talking about Dancing about Architecture

This weekend just been, Saturday, October 20, I was invited to speak at the Cabana in Napier with Nick Bollinger and Jamie Macphail was our chairperson – part of the Hawke’s Bay Art Festival. The talk was music-writing, music-journalism, blogging, our histories, the role of criticism, how we went about it – and so on. […]
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November 23, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 91 – Shelagh Magadza (Again!)

Welcome to episode 91 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This conversation is me chatting once again with the Artistic Director of the NZ Festival and Wellington Jazz Festival, Shelagh Magadza.
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