Fill the balcony, folks!
Photo courtesy of Williamstown Literary Festival 2024. Wouldn't it be nice to fill the balcony at the Williamstown Town Hall, next Friday? We've sold all 380 downstairs seats, so tickets are now available for the balcony. Guest writers this year are Nathan Curnow, Claudia Nankervis, Rijn Collins, Andy Griffiths, Alice Pung and Smokie [...]
ELECTRIC FEEL by MGMT. Story by Barbara Samuelson.
It was the first time I learned what a silent disco headphone system even was.
COPPERHEAD ROAD by STEVE EARLE. Story by Bill Arnott.
He was going to either live off-the-grid and plot conspiracy theories or start a band and write songs. He chose the latter, which made my life better.
Comes a time – the final poems.
As of today, Stereo Stories will no longer run poetry on this website. Here are our final three poems.
CONFIDE IN ME by KYLIE. Poem by Nathan Curnow.
You’re on the staircase, Kylie, summoning a confessional poem...
DANCING WITH MYSELF by BILLY IDOL. Poem by Stephanie Holt.
Stephanie Holt takes us back to New York, 1981.
DENIS by BLONDIE. Story by Robert Lastdrager.
I sat before the drum kit and just marveled, before playing along to my Blondie 7-inch single Denis as loud as my record player could go.
Williamstown in June – cooking up a delicious night of music and memoir
Tickets are now available for our annual show at the Williamstown Literary Festival on Friday 20 June.
The maternal collection
Daughter and mother; Natasha and Angela Savage. Mother’s Day may be an artificial construct but stories about mothers, and about being a mother are as genuine as the blood running through our veins. Here are 14 such stories that interwine parenting, love and music. Martina Medica celebrates her toddlers’ love of music, [...]
ROCKY GROUND by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. Story by Martina Medica.
I’m fairly sure, though, that you didn’t request the song because of its profound message. No, at the age of ‘not quite two,’ it was just a song you liked, and especially a song you liked to sing.