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May 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Megan McCarthy
Megan McCarthy is a Wellington musician. Here are five albums she’s loving right now… I feel that this post should reflect my growth as a musician: where I have come from and where I am now. I have my fiancé Peter Baillie to thank for my musical education of late – but there is still [...]Archive
May 8, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Rennie Sparks (The Handsome Family)
Rennie Sparks is one half of The Handsome Family. The duo’s new album Wilderness is out at the end of this week. Rennie has also written an accompanying book of essays and art. Here are five albums she’s loving right now… 1 – Puccini, Madame Butterfly: Just saw a local production of it and [...]Archive
May 7, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Brett Sparks (The Handsome Family)
Brett Sparks is one half of The Handsome Family. The band’s new album is out at the end of this week, it’s called Wilderness. The new record is coming out on vinyl, so Brett went out and bought himself a turntable to listen to the test pressings. He grew up with vinyl so it’s been [...]Archive
May 6, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Blair Everson
Blair Everson is a local ne’er-do-well who plays guitar and sings in Wellington band The Eversons. Here are five albums he’s loving right now… 1 – Boa Constrictors, Nice Try: Boa Constrictors is all played and recorded by one guy called Joe. I’ve listened to this album upwards of thirty times in the last week [...]Archive
April 28, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Dianne Swann
Dianne Swann is one half of duo The Bads who have just released their third album Travel Light. They are currently touring and playing as a five-piece and will be playing a show as a double-bill with Craig Terris Group at Puppies in Wellington this Thursday, May 2nd. Doors at 9pm. Here are five albums [...]Archive
April 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Nick Raven
Nick Raven has recently released debut album, Love and Lomography. He is considered a fast-rising young troubadour and his “nice acoustic music” has been described as “evoking a sun-soaked, psychedelic fantasia that will keep your summer glow shimmering for the rest of the year”. Here are five albums he’s loving right now… 1 – The [...]Archive
April 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Jimmy Jones
Jimmy Jones is a landscape gardener, constructor, designer etc. He arrived in Sydney 15 years ago via Dunedin, Nelson, Motueka and well NZ in general. He’s never written about music or played in a band but has been surrounded by music, musicians, engineers, producers, writers et al since he was a teenager. His brother Damian [...]Archive
April 14, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Ella Rose
Ella Rose is a singer/songwriter originally from the UK, who has moved countries every two years of her whole life till settling in NZ a few years ago. A long standing session musician in London and Paris, singing on everything from major ads, to BBC soundtracks, to albums by artists like Mike Oldfield for example, she [...]Archive
April 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Aly Cook
Aly Cook is a singer songwriter from Nelson and New Zealand Female Country Artist of the Year 2012. She travels the Tasman regularly having carved out a Fly-In/Fly-Out career in Australia, where she has had two Top 20 Country singles in the Top 30 Country Tracks Chart last year. Aly appears at the prestigious Gympie [...]Archive
April 12, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Five Albums I’m Loving Right Now: Frank Eggleton
Frank Eggleton is a Musician/Filmmaker who plays guitar/keyboards and some vocals in Wellington band Kittentank, their album is available here. They are playing next Wednesday at SFBH for free. Here are five albums he’s loving right now… 1 – Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Press Color: Just got into this album this year, it’s my Friday night [...]Archive
April 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman