Farewell, Salvatore Romita
Salvatore Romita, founding member of the Stereo Stories band, died on Wednesday evening, 17 November, aged 96.
Salvatore Romita, founding member of the Stereo Stories band, died on Wednesday evening, 17 November, aged 96.
When The Stereo Stories Band is not preparing for its shows, the members are rehearsing and playing with various bands and combos around Melbourne and Geelong.
In the first of a very occasional series we trace the travels of the Stereo Stories coffee mug!
Stereo Stories writer John Butler and his partner Marion this year opened Everybody Knows Books, a second-hand bookshop in Ballarat.
A big thank-you to The MEMO Music Hall in St Kilda for kindly re-scheduling our 14 November 2021 show to Sunday 9 January, 4pm, 2022.
We couldn't play at the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury this year, so at the invitation of the festival, we made a little video. A postcard, you could call it.
Given so many Stereo Stories (or stories in general ) are about rites of passage, and formative years, it’s no surprise we have a collection of short music-memoirs about schooldays. Just over 20 stories, including contributions from noted authors Tony Birch and Melanie Cheng, and our RocKwiz colleague Brian Nankervis.
We have a handful of stories inspired by The Rolling Stones. Just the five, which may be a fraction surprising.
Jenny Valentish will be joining us for our Memo Music Hall show in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon 14 November.
'Voice' is not a song. It's a book. A slim volume. Just 90 small pages. But a weighty tome.