Sweetman Podcast
Conversations with creative people. simonsweetman.substack.com
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John Carroll Kirby: Piano Works 2016-2026 (opens the original)
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Your Phone Is A Monkey Playing The Trumpet (opens the original)
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The line is not mine. It comes from this video: Journalist Joss Fong (Howtown) used that line in her conversation in the video above with Katty Kay. Subscribe nowThey talk about the ‘brain rot’ of ‘doomscrolling’ — all these terms that actually no longer need inverted commas. They’re firmly in our lexicon now. We reference them in an almost self-effacing way; just
Poem: Ambient Schmambient (opens the original)
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I had a tangerine dream,the walls all draped in orange-peachsound, a new yellow.Harry Nilsson at the helm,making synthesiser music,his voice a wordless coo.He’d gone. Whether the suit wasa change of clothes. He lived oninside the circle of a song.I stayed as long as I could.On the fringe. Letting pulpbuild under the skin.It was suite. And then I woke.A heartbreak for a momentat the thought of a new pulse.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!C
Object/ive Permanence # 1: Duncan Sarkies (opens the original)
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Welcome to episode one of my new podcast series — Object/ive Permanence — where in one take, no edits, I chat with someone, the conversation is captured, and you can watch and/or listen to it. The podcast is here on Substack but will go out on all the other usual Podcast channels as past of the “Sweetman Podcast” RSS.Subscribe nowThis is a new experiment. I’m talking to people about an object they bring, and from there we go wherever the conversation takes us. Of
Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key of Life — The EP (opens the original)
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