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Sweetman Podcast

Simon Sweetman

Conversations with creative people. simonsweetman.substack.com

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 77 - Steve Garden

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2017/08/17

An in-depth chat with Steve Rattle - record producer, engineer, musician, and label owner. Steve is the man behind Rattle Records - an imprint of quality 'art' music from New Zealand - featuring jazz, classical and the bits in-between, home to movie soundtracks and ambitious pieces. Steve is also a drummer who has worked with Sharon O'Neill, the earliest version of The Mutton Birds and many more acts across a diverse range of genres. We sat down to chat through his life in music, the aims and

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 76 - Tamzin Beazley

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2017/08/09

An in-depth chat with Tamzin Beazley, wife of Head Like A Hole frontman, Booga Beazley. We talk about the documentary film, "Swagger of Thieves", currently doing the NZ Film Festival circuit. We talk too of the impacts on her and family as key parts of the film and filming process; we talk band and rock'n'roll, drug addiction, break-ups, reunions and rock'n'roll... Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 75 - Gaylene Preston

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2017/08/03

An in-depth chat with filmmaker Gaylene Preston. We talk, mostly, about Helen Clark and Gaylene's current film festival-touring doco, My Year With Helen. We talk United Nations, feminism, women, the "glass ceiling", the making of the film - but we also talk about Preston's other movies, her docos in particular - films about Kiwi icons like Rita Angus and the movie 'Utu', the power "War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us" and about a creative life making sense of the world through a lens... Get full

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 74 - Melody Thomas

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2017/07/27

An in-depth chat with broadcaster, freelance writer and now podcaster Melody Thomas. We preview her upcoming RNZ podcast, "Bang!" and talk through her life and career as a freelancer for RNZ, her time at radio school, her broadcast training, her love of podcasts - and music - and we reminisce about the time/s we were going to do a radio show (or podcast) together as co-hosts... Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 73 - Janna Lapidus Leblanc

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2017/07/20

An in-depth chat with Janna Lapidus Leblanc. She was Stevie Ray Vaughan's fiancee at the time of his death; they met four years earlier in Wellington - she's a Kiwi, now based in America. She has recently written and published a book of photos that tells the story of their love affair. Janna and I talk about Stevie, his music, their relationship, her book. We talk too about her life, her upbringing, her career (professional model), her grieving of Stevie. Get full access to Sounds Good! at

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 72 - Holly Walker

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2017/07/13

An in-depth chat with Holly Walker, mother, former Greens MP, author of "The Whole Intimate Mess" a brief, candid memoir that addresses her struggles with depression and self-harm, with working in politics as a mother; we talk also of the work she had done ahead of politics and after as student newspaper editor and freelance writer, radio commentator, podcast guest and host and as book reviewer. We talk through her book and the process of writing and her world around all of that. Get full access to

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 71 - Norman Meehan

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2017/07/06

An in-depth chat with musician, critic and educator Norman Meehan. We talk through his involvement with music as a writer of biographies and dialogues around music, as a player and composer, as a critic and a teacher. And we pay special attention to the winning collaboration/s with poet Bill Manhire and singer Hannah Griffin across a half-dozen or more recording projects and performance pieces over the last decade. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 70 - Rodger Fox

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2017/06/26

An in-depth chat with Rodger Fox - very much the face of jazz and big band music for New Zealand; ex member of The Quincy Conserve and now leader, for over 40+ years of The Rodger Fox Big Band and various other smaller ensembles, including his Funkbone Experience, also a promoter, arranger, educator and tireless supporter of music and musicians. We talked through his career, his highlights and his passion for music. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 69 - Jeremy Taylor

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2017/06/22

An in-depth chat with Jeremy Taylor of Slow Boat Records. He's a singer/songwriter, former food blogger, rugby writer, music reviewer, singer and voice for hire...and he and I have been having versions of this conversation for about a decade now, trapped in discussion around music, TV, comedy, films, and in this instance...even a bit of rugby. Buckle up for a huge conversation to celebrate two years of the podcast. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 68 - Colin Hogg

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2017/06/15

An in-depth chat with Colin Hogg - rock writer, Women's Weekly columnist, TV producer...Colin's done it all really...and we talk about his many book projects and documentaries and his journalism career that started nearly 50 years ago as a young cadet and saw him become the leading rock writer in New Zealand across the late 1970s and into the 1980s. A candid conversation with one of my writing heroes. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 67 - Jeffrey Paparoa Holman

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2017/06/09

An in-depth conversation with writer Jeffrey Paparoa Holman. We talk a lot about Bob Dylan, in the context of Jeffrey's latest volume, "Dylan Junkie". We then work through Holman's life - arriving to New Zealand from England as a toddler, living on the West Coast of the South Island, discovering the music of Dylan and then off wandering, story-gathering, settling into poetry, casting off demons, moving, working, living...we talk too of his various roles now, poet and published historian, academic,

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 66 - Danny Mulheron

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2017/06/02

An in-depth chat with TV/Film/Theatre actor/director/writer Danny Mulheron. From his early days working with Peter Jackson to his recent years churning out TV documentaries and feature films Mulheron has worked - solidly - across the arts. He was a child star, a stand-up comedian, collaborator across musicals and cabarets, and then on through film and TV and theatre work. We talk about all of this but we talk, mostly, about passion and energy in the arts; about truth and authenticity; about

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 65 - Shelagh Magadza

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2017/05/29

An in-depth chat with Shelagh Magadza, Artistic Director of the NZ Festival, incorporating the Wellington Jazz Festival. We talk about her background, her commitment to the concept of Festivals, her work in both Australia and New Zealand and then we plug the upcoming Wellington Jazz Festival, previewing and profiling the great names involved from local talent to international stars including Dianne Reeves, Bill Frisell and Comet is Coming. Get full access to Sounds Good! at

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 64 - Patrick Gower

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2017/05/25

An in-depth chat with Patrick ("Paddy") Gower, TV3/Newshub Political Editor. We talk about his history as a journalist, from shoe-leather shuffling for the NZ Herald to crime reporting, freelancing in the UK, returning to NZ to work in the press gallery and then moving into TV. We talk about some of his big grabs and big interviews and we talk about our shared history, as friends from university. It's a big talk. Lots of great stories here. Get full access to Sounds Good! at

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 63 - DJ Bill E

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2017/05/18

An in-depth chat with Wellington DJ, Simon Bendall - aka DJ Bill E. For over 20 years he's been one of the mainstay DJs in and on the scene. We talk about the importance of Greg Churchill, we talk about Bill's two long-running club nights, "Atomic" and "24HourPartyPeople" - his Anglophile love of post-punk, punk and pop music; his upcoming Kiwi version of Atomic, "See Me Go", his record buying, listening and playing habits; his life obsessed with music. Get full access to Sounds Good! at

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 62 - Sarah Jane Barnett

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2017/05/11

An in-depth chat with Wellington-based writer Sarah Jane Barnett. She has two published volumes of poetry, is the literary editor for The Pantograph Punch and has published essays, reviews, literary criticism and interviews alongside her poetry and prose. She studied creative writing at Victoria University and Massey with an MA and PhD. We talk about her literary career and aspirations - we talk influences and motivations, and the drive to work full-time as a writer, balancing parenting and other

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 61 - Phil Judd

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2017/05/05

An in-depth conversation with Phil Judd, singer/songwriter, founding member of Split Enz, creator of "Mental Notes" - one of the greatest records to come out of New Zealand, painter and artist, record producer, film soundtrack composer, solo artist. He also created the Swingers and wrote "Counting The Beat" and the criminally underrated band, Schnell-Fenster. He's made a half dozen solo albums too. We talk about all of his work. And his life. The battles with mental illness, his struggle to maintain

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 60 - Miranda Harcourt

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2017/04/28

An in-depth chat with actor/director/acting coach Miranda Harcourt. We talk through her 50-year career from child-star to coaching child-stars. She still works in film - acting and directing - but also has a career as an internationally renowned acting coach. Whether you know her from radio plays or kids TV (narrating Hairy Maclary), from her early defining role on NZ TV's "Gloss" or for her film work such as 'For Good' and 'The Rehearsal' you surely know at least some of her fine work. There's also

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 59 - Nik Jarvie-Waldrom

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2017/04/21

An in-depth chat with my good friend Nik Jarvie-Waldrom. In particular we talk podcasts and podcasting, we look at her amazing series "Fathom" that recently played (and can still be heard) on RNZ. We unpack each episode and talk through her process of interviewing and story-telling. And to get to that we talk through her background as a musician, writer, drama student, as someone with background in performance (dance and music) and as someone who has worn many hats in the arts, a "Creative

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Sweetman Podcast: Episode 58 - Lyndee-Jane Rutherford

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2017/04/12

An in-depth chat with actor and director Lyndee-Jane Rutherford. We talk through her career from the farm in Feilding to acting school, via a whole lot of amateur theatre productions. From Am-Dram to TV ('Skitz'), some film work, voiceovers, ads - the works. She's been a mainstay at Circa Theatre in Wellington across most of the last 20 years, with acting work and directing too. We talk about the behind-the-scenes, pitching a show, rehearsals, those unplanned moments where things go wrong. And we

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