Almanac Music 3 – Letters to Sgt Pepper
Dear Sgt. Pepper, You were released 50 years ago. That is more years than for which I have breathed this air.
Thank you, Williamstown
Thank you, Williamstown, for being so much a part of our show at the Williamstown Literary Festival on Saturday 17 June.
Almanac Music 1: From Billy Elliot to Suedehead in six minutes
There is much conjecture and disagreement about the trajectory of Paul Weller and friends, the evolution of The Jam from punkish to mod to pop to pastiche, ending in the Style Council, of which I was never a fan (you can tell a Weller woman by the way she wears her hair etc).
Postcard from the mixing desk (2017)
Yes, folks, Stereo Stories now has its own postcard, courtesy of graphic designer Chris Rees.
RACING IN THE STREET by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Story by Richard Castles
As a teenage boy in a dark suburban room, I was a long way from the turnpikes of New Jersey. I didn't have a job, a car or a girl, just an Apollo 10-speed bicycle and a dungeon I called my own. What on earth was I connecting with here?
Music and memoir alive and well in Wangaratta
Stereo Stories' first concert for 2017 was a 90-minute show at The Stage Door Studio, an intimate performance space tucked away in a corner of the Wangaratta Showgrounds. The night kicked off with the starkness of State Trooper and finished with a rousing blues jam.
Valentine’s Day at Stereo Stories
A medley of romantic stories to mark Valentine's Day: The Eels, Vince Jones, Bon Iver, The Church, The Beatles.
Black Saturday stories
The Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia on 7 February 2009 killed 174 people. These four stories include two by Stephen Andrew, who survived that day.
Note for note at Word For Word Festival
Zoe Krupka and The Stereo Stories Band (Drummer Anthony Shortte hidden behind lectern!). Photo by Patrick Reynolds Stereo Stories' final show for 2016 was the closing event of the Word For Word Festival at the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre on Sunday 20 November. The one hour concert included a short tribute to [...]
Cohen, Leonard: a song
Vin Maskell Café, La Trobe St, Melbourne. Lunchtime June 2010Some songs need fresh air. They need to be able to breathe again. They need to be able to float away into space and not come into our orbit for a good while.