Simon Sweetman is a Wellington NZ author and musician.

He is best known for his music criticism and poetry, and for his distinctive homemade ‘pots & pans’ percussion for The Winter (trio with Mike Kingston and Dave Edwards) and (more recently) Dirty Spoons, Yo (with Sam Walters);

Simon blogs at https://simonsweetman.substack.com/ ;

and records spoken-word albums as Second Storey Teller;

 his books include The Death of Music Journalism (2020), and The Richard Poems (2024).

He hosts a monthly Open Mic called Say the Thing on the last Wednesday of each month at MEOW, in Wellington.