I took myself down to Poetry in Motion’s regular monthly open-mic night. There’s always a feature poet, but a few slots for open-mic readings in the first half of the evening. Here is a warts-n-all live recording of three new poems from me, with a little context around the poems — and my return to open-mic reading after a lengthy absence. Finding m…

A late-night wash of ambient-techno scribbles.By Simon Sweetman

A bit of ambient chillBy Simon Sweetman

An in-depth phone conversation with Henry Rollins. We promo his upcoming NZ tour but talk about his move to Nashville, after 40 years of living in LA. We talk about his childhood, his recent return to travel, the Covid Lockdowns, his acting, his writing, his radio show. The works. Henry weighs in on America and politics, and previews the type of ta…

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Synth instrumentalBy Simon Sweetman

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TwinPeaking by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

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My Mum by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

School Trip, 1993 by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

The End of Family Ties by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

La-Z-Boys by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Scream Sequence by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Everybody Wants To Fool The World by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

All The Overdues by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Haberdashing by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

We Crawl by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Hi and welcome back to the podcast. I’ve had a huge break. This has been for a bunch of reasons – but really it was because of the pandemic. Lockdowns killed my flow, I didn’t want to just do phone and Skype chats. And then, ever since hitting ‘stop’ it’s been very hard to press ‘play’ again. Or in fact to hit ‘Record’. But here I am again, with th…

An in-depth conversation with repeat-guest, Megan Dunn. This time around we're talking about her memoir-in-essays, "Things I Learned At Art School". She was previously a guest, back in 2018 when her first book, "Tinderbox" was released. We talked parenting and pandemic and writing about art, writing about writing. We talked mermaids and the TV show…

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Residual by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Rearviewmirror by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Have You Ever Been Experienced by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Don’t Be A Cunt At The BBQ Eh by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Some of My Best Friends Have Been Songs by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

The Impressions I Got - Discovering Curtis Mayfield at the End of A World by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

The Email From Robbie Williams by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Not Much of a Bookstore Job by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

The Day Harrison Died by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Torch Song For My Father by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

She’ll Be Right by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Your Mate by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

Eaglehawk Down by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

We Must Be The Eggs by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

The Year of The Rat by Simon SweetmanBy Simon Sweetman

A phone conversationw with TV host and comedian Dai Henwood. We've never met and this is our first ever chat, so we talk lockdown and covid, and rap music, and we talk about his father, the late, great Ray Henwood (a wonderful actor). We do talk comedy, a bit. But this was more a getting-to-know-somehow chat. And I loved it. I hope you do too. Get …

An in-depth conversation with Wellington-based actor, writer and producer Jean Sergent. We talk about her life and work, growing up in an acting family, her current show - Live Through This - her interest in reading Tarot and a whole lot more. Great chat!By Simon Sweetman

A talk I gave at the 2020 Manawatu Writers Festival. I'm talking about blogging - and indeed all the writing I do and my journey towards it and through it.By Simon Sweetman

An in-depth conversation with Wellington-based performance poet Tarns Hood. We talk about her style of work and she recites several poems - we talk poetry slams and performing in general. We also talk about sobriety, celebrate her recent 5-year (60 month) milestone. And she talks candidly about alcoholism. Her bottoming out. Her decision to work a …

An in-depth conversation with Andrew Gladstone, drummer for Garageland. We talk about the highs and lows of the band's career across the mid/late 1990s and early 00s and then Andrew's move to Hawke's Bay to hide from the music industry - where of course he went on to play even more drums (including with Fane Flaws - R.I.P.) We also talked about the…

An in-depth conversation with the writer and book-store owner Catherine Robertson. We talk art, books, music, movies - all the good things. Huge chat. We talk about Catherine's books - but also about writing in general; books in general. We talk through her life and influences and discuss book reviewing. And many other things along the way.…