It is five years since Joan Kirner, former Premier of Victoria, died of cancer. June 1, 2015. 76 years old. Amongst her many interests, Kirner was founding patron of the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Stereo Stories published its 500th story this morning.
One song title stands out. One title has me impatient for the CD to get to Track 7.
A song for the times. "I want to live alone in the desert/I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe/I want to live on the Upper East Side/And never go down in the street"
We ended up in a pub. There was a country-rock band in a back room. They played with a certain honesty. Lap-steel guitar can do that.
Here he is on the telly. Careering about in a golf buggy. Dancing. Having a ball. I find the song on the interweb and YouTube tells me it’s had 593,254,616 views. So far. Incomprehensible.
I’m hoping there are no latecomers, no stragglers, because I want to hear as much of this song as I can. The chorus, though, catches me off-guard.
The seeds of Stereo Stories can partly be traced to a story I pitched to The Big Issue in 2009, four years before I began this website.
Over seven years close to 150 writers have written a total of nearly 500 stories for this website. All those writers have contributed their skills for free. That's a lot of goodwill.
From the opening lines of this debut single you know that Oliver Northam knows how to tell a story.