IMAGINE by JOHN LENNON Story by Lucia Nardo
I love my son’s tattoos. The latest addition is the word 'imagine' on his right upper arm.
TOO MANY TIMES by MENTAL AS ANYTHING Story by Stephen Andrew
Greedy Smith was the biggest dag in a band full of dags. They looked like they didn’t take anything seriously, yet they made some ripper records.
BOATS & BIRDS by GREGORY AND THE HAWK Story by Lauryn Goates
The next thing I knew I was on the ground. A paramedic was talking to me. I didn’t know what they were saying.
I WILL DARE (and other songs) by THE REPLACEMENTS. Poem by Christian Brimo
When I was with you I felt like Paul Westerberg /Yearning, hopeful, bruised but romantic
GREEN RIVER by CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Story by Damian Balassone
My sole ambition in life is to find out what has happened to John Fogerty.
MAYBE by SPLIT ENZ Story by Kevin Densley
Split Enz were considerably more interesting in their earlier period.
The Big Issue and Stereo Stories
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.
MORNINGSIDE by NEIL DIAMOND Story by Jane Leonard
I’m watching Dad working on the huge driftwood table he’s been making out of wood that he’s found and dragged home from the beach.
CENTRE STAGE Rijn Collins
Photo by Eric Algra. Geelong Library 2016. Rijn Collins was part of our very first show, at the Williamstown Literary Festival in 2014. But she wasn't there. Laryngitis. A croaky, very croaky, voice rang to apologise. The band, and a fill-in narrator, performed her very dry, very funny travel story about Jackson by [...]
YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOUR LOVE AWAY by THE BEATLES Story by Stephen Andrew
Despite my stage fright, a dodgy monitor and a handful of fluffed lines, my little trio are sharp enough and together enough to sound OK.