Did my quilt-making cousin Lucy know the album’s opening song was, all so briefly, part of our little concerts?
When the quilt arrived, a complete surprise, we cleared the kitchen table of cups of tea and Milo, of the newspapers, of the bills.
It’s been quite a ride with the ever-suportive Willi Lit Fest but as the band sang one June night in 2019, all things must pass.
A big, big book about a phenomemal rock climber includes a little story about a gifted troubled musician.
The odometer on our Wordpress dashboard quietly ticked over to 800 stories last week.
Here’s a book about music writing that ticks a lot of boxes.
We have been looking at other people’s houses. Not like the characters – a cleaner and her child – in Paul Kelly’s 1992 song. No, not like that at all.
You don’t have to agree on everything, you don’t have to like the same bands, or like the same bands as much, but there is a bond, a thread.
Whether it be websites or concerts, radio or books or podcasts, there is no shortage of personal stories about the songs that shape our lives.
Hope plays with with The Stiletto Sisters, The Persephone Project, My Friend The Chocolate Cake and many others.