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May 16, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Watching Music
The best way you can learn about music is by listening to it – sure, you can research, ask questions, read up, get opinions from others…these are all smart ways to build your knowledge, but number one is to listen widely. And far too often. Reading about music has been a big part of my […]Archive
March 31, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
There’s a Clip I Watch on YouTube and I’m Not Joking When I Say I Look at it Most Weeks…
It’s a film-student interviewing John Cusack and she can’t believe her luck, you see the class was watching American Beauty that day, and she skipped out to interview its star – only Cusack, quite reasonably disagreed, given he’s not in the film at all. His interviewer presses the point that he is in fact in […]Archive
January 30, 2022 by Simon Sweetman
Barn – Neil Young & Crazy Horse – A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn: Film
Barn: Neil Young & Crazy Horse – A Band, A Brotherhood, A Barn Director: DHLoveLife A Shakey Pictures Production Neil Young is in the news for taking his music off Spotify – his stand against the company’s platforming of Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan masquerades as a free-thinker and entertains conspiracy theories, which has seen him […]Archive
June 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
In Praise of YouTube, The TV Channel!
My son is nine – he has a TV in his room and used to have a DVD player until that got subbed out when he received an X-Box for his last birthday. He would desperately like his own YouTube channel. When I was his age, I had a TV in my room too. I […]Archive
March 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 249: Gavin Hewitson (Gavin Learns)
Welcome to Sweetman Podcast. It’s 2021. But I started this year with conversations recorded at the very end of 2020. Now we’re into fresh conversations recorded in 2021. And this is episode 249 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as […]Archive
March 9, 2021 by Simon Sweetman
Gavin Learns Podcast: Episode 32 – Simon Sweetman
Gavin Hewitson is a Wellington-based comedian and podcaster. Gavin Learns is his show and you get that wherever you get podcasts. But also he puts it up on YouTube – as is the way with some podcasts. So you get to watch it and/or listen. Gavin talks to a range of people about subjects that he’s interested in […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
May 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman