A new year, a new show
Our attention is firmly focused on a show we're putting on at MEMO Music Hall, St Kilda, on Sunday afternoon 9 January. Hope to see you there.
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning. Poem by Vin M
Reading Cohen on Christmas morning/Poems of love and loss and yearning
CHRISTMAS by PAUL KELLY. Story by Louise Maskell.
It was still plaintive and summery. It was by another St Kilda institution. A guy I first saw play at Deakin in the early 1980s. I tracked it down to a new double album of Christmas songs.
UNTIL THE GOOD IS GONE by LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL. Story by Paul Dufficy.
Steve and I are driving from Kempsey to Crescent Head in 1972 at about 9pm and the local DJ at 2KM puts on the Hollies’ Long Cool Woman (in a black dress) and apparently goes outside for a smoke as the vinyl single hits a snag and repeats and repeats … and right in front of me the Disciples of Soul …
LIGHTS by INTERPOL. Poem by Michael Leach
well-stocked op shop—/she sifts thru clothes racks/to find/an alternative/while I scan CD racks
WHEN I’M SIXTY-FOUR by THE BEATLES. Story by Martin Hadfield.
Each time it was played a surging panic set in. How long did I have left before my bald, elderly, and poor parents required feeding? And how could they possibly go out until a quarter to three in the morning if they were in that condition? I’d be worried sick.
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT. Part 2. Story by Paul Mitchell.
Paul Mitchell concludes his story of the rise and fall of Geelong's greatest band from 1991, Tall Planet.
SOME OF SHELLY’S BLUES by MICHAEL NESMITH. Story by Vin M
The former Monkee had played rather grander venues, but he seemed pretty comfortable up there on the graduation stage. I was just a few rows from the front. Stage right, near the guitarist, Al Perkins.
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT by NIRVANA. Part 1. Story by Paul Mitchell
Nineteen-ninety-one was the greatest year in rock history. Anyone who says otherwise wasn’t 22 and forming a band.
CENTRE STAGE Brian Nankervis
Brian Nankervis has long been curious about the relationship between songs and personal stories, going right back to his days on RRR-FM.