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It's Sweetpool Week in Outsideleft It's Sweetpool Week in Outsideleft - All This Week

It's Sweetpool Week in Outsideleft

It's Sweetpool Week in Outsideleft - All This Week

by LamontPaul, Founder & Publisher
first published: March, 2026

approximate reading time: minutes

Highlights. Thrilling Highlights to be had during Sweetpool week in Outsideleft.

Sweetpool Week

Sweetpool join Outsideleft to celebrate the release of their fine new LP, 3AM. A Head of Snakes, from Birmingham’s Slow Century Records—based outta the Knowle record shop of the same name. It's going to be a week of thrillingly highwire events... 

LP Art

Highlights include Jonathan Thornton talking to Sweetpool vocalist Nic about the new LP and the recording sessions at Blotto.  Enjoy Happy Shopper trips with each of the band members, vocalist and guitarist, Nic, drummer Ant and bass playing Jase, and including on hysterical debate about shoe vernacular… Shoes, Pairs… reminding of question posed to kids on school breaks to keep up their mental acuity, I mean, you do that don’t you? ["If I have 50 different pairs of shoes in a dark closet, what is the smallest number of shoes I’d have to take out to be certain I have a matching pair?"] Later this week read a review of their new LP and check out some of their favorite videos before, somewhat sadly, we will return to normal programming. It’s a lot.

Sweetpool

SWEETPOOL WEEK IN OUTSIDELEFT
MON:
 It's Sweetpool Week All Week in Outsideleft → | Record Release In-Store at Slow Century →
TUES: Happy Shopper with Jase →
WEDS: Happy Shopper Ant → | Interview with Nic →
THU: 3AM. LP review by Jonathan Thornton → | Happy Shopper with Nic →
FRI: Some Songs Sweetpool really need you to know about...


essential information
Sweetpool main image by Louise Holgate - although we messed up the lower one because we are dabblers

Sweetpool's website is here →

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LamontPaul
Founder & Publisher

Publisher, Lamontpaul founded outsideleft with Alarcon in 2004 and is hanging on, saying, "I don't know how to stop this, exactly."

Lamontpaul portrait by John Kilduff painted during an episode of John's TV Show, Let's Paint TV


ALSO BY LAMONTPAUL
Happy Shopper #51: Jase from Sweetpool →
Sweetpool Week continues with bassist Jase doing some Happy Shopping...
Daren Garratt: The Outsideleft Sunday Interview →
Acclaimed Black Country drummer Daren Garratt talks about a life in music with Pram, the Nightingales, the Fall and most recently David Lance Callahan
Penny Kiley: The Outsideleft Sunday Interview →
Punk Rock, Liverpool and Trying to be Me... Penny Kiley talks to Outsideleft
The Greatest Afternoon Out of the Year... So Far →
The first ever Outsideleft Afternoon Out with Bapz on Crack, Me & Thee, Ancient Champion and Jackdaw with Crowbar
Happy Shopper #48: Mike Mason →
Mike Mason Week continues with the Happy Shopper #48
The Delines New LP 'The Set Up' and 2026 UK Tour →
The Set Up will be released in March 2026
visit the LamontPaul page →

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