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October 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

My Poems on YouTube: Making Poetry Videos

Like most of the things I do – from providing commentary on radio, to my own Vinyl Countdown posts here, indeed to any of my blogging, it happened by accident. It started randomly and has continued in much the same fashion.  But I now have a YouTube channel where I share my poems. Someone sent me some footage of […]
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August 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Paul Kelly: Forty Days

Paul Kelly Forty Days Cooking Vinyl Limited I keep thinking this is a very prolific period for Australia’s greatest songwriter. But actually it’s just a purple patch – within a purple patch. He’s always been regular and often prolific with his output but the last decade has seen a combination of ends-tying compilations and themed-shows […]
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July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Album Preview: New Music Coming by Brisa Roché + Single ‘Can’t Stand’ Out Now!

At the start of this year the Brisa Roché album Father consumed me. The first best album I heard in 2019 – my first rave review for the year. And it’s been in my ears, and I’ve been carrying it in my heart, ever since.   When you fall so heavily for something the very best news is that new music […]
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July 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: All This Trouble In The World 

Adolf Hitler just wanted to be a painter – someone should have given him an exhibition.  Take a  chance!  Charles Manson wanted to make records – why do you think he befriended the one Beach Boy that could surf? he wanted to soak up  the sound… he wrote some songs. certainly managed to get plenty of […]
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May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Jaron Lanier: Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 

Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Jaron Lanier Henry Holt and Co. Jaron Lanier was there for the building of the internet, an early chat-room visitor (and developer), a guy with major tech credentials. He’s become an internet philosopher, a fierce critic of Silicon Valley; he’s like any writer with a troubled history and […]
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April 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Completing the 1001 Albums Challenge 

I had the 2005 version of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die – I’d owned it for years and had a flip through the pages, but never really studied it. And then someone asked me how many of the albums I had heard – was it half? Was it all? I figured the […]
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August 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 26 – Chet Baker

I can’t remember when I first heard Chet Baker but I’ve been a fan for a while. A long time. Feels like he’s just been there forever. My whole life. But I would have been a teenager before I first heard him knowingly. And then it was all in. And it’s still the way. Currently […]
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March 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 108 – James Buttery

Welcome to episode 108 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat with a guy called James Buttery. He’s a record collector. He’s the co-host of a brand new podcast called The Good, The Bad & The LP. He’s also the host of a YouTube channel where he […]
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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

How Do You Find Music? How Does Music Find You? How Has That Changed?

Do you ever stop to consider the changes that have been made to the way you find music? Is your approach still the same? Surely it’s changed, you’ve changed formats, the formats have changed – in terms of delivery approach, in terms of regularity, in terms of how and when you receive them – as […]
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May 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

This Is Everything – Gigi Gorgeous: Film

This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Director: Barbara Kopple SelectNext Gregory Lazzarato was any young Canadian boy – a gifted diver on track for Olympic Games consideration. He also loved make-up and growing up in the age of YouTube found himself as a beauty and fashion vlogger with a growing fanbase connected to a YouTube channel. […]
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March 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: # 8 – Recent Finds and Reminders; Things I’ve Been Appreciating…

So it’s a Five For Friday with no real theme – if there is one it’s there in the title, these songs – old and new – have all been on my mind and on the turntable over the last couple of weeks. Songs that standout on new releases, or old records I’ve just picked […]
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October 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

What Matters Most Is The Music: It’s Not How You Listen – It’s That You Listen

Audio streaming has now beaten video streaming – or put simply, Spotify means more to people than YouTube. Okay, that’s putting it very simply but that’s – basically – the news. Record companies are only just cottoning on to YouTube, thinking video might help them sell audio. But audio is being taken for free – […]
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