YOUR SONG by ELTON JOHN. Story by Barbara Hughes
I had a moment to take in the purple jacket and track suit pants before Elton gave me that familiar gap-toothed smile and said ‘Hello’.
THE NUT BROWN MAIDEN, a traditional Scottish song. Story by Alex Barr.
I sometimes think of my father as a cold, bleak Icelandic landscape, and his songs as those hot springs that bubble up from unknown depths.
JUST LIKE THAT by BONNIE RAITT. Story by Luke Davies.
Every now and then there’s a song that comes along at a time in your life when you’re most ready to respond to it.
SURFING MAGAZINES by THE GO-BETWEENS. Story by Mark ‘Swish’ Schwerdt
Surely Robert Forster wasn’t a surfer, you initially think. He’s having a lend of us. But he isn’t. Or is he?
Stereo Stories steams into Queenscliff!
Our first show for 2023 is our first visit to the Queenscliffe Literary Festival, on Victoria's Bellarine peninsula.
I AIN’T COMING HOME by SILVERTIDE. Story by Lauren O’Hagan.
He could barely speak English. I could barely speak Italian. But somehow, we communicated with one another, almost playing a silent game.
SERENADE by MARIO LANZA. Story by Hugh Jones
Some guests on Desert Island Discs are more interesting than others, and some are not what you would expect at all - Robert Plant, for example.
HARD DRIVIN’ MAN by J.GEILS BAND. Story by Paul Dufficy
I was in my new outfit and if truth be told I looked a bit like Thurston Howell III from Gilligan’s Island. I think most of the girls there thought so too.
THIS IS by ASLAN. Story by Maria Haughey
Once Upon A Time there was a band. A band that was Made In Dublin. And there was a girl. Who wasn’t Made In Dublin. But was formed there. In a way. In the 1980s and the 1990s. In the parts of Ballymun that passed themselves off as Glasnevin.
Irish radio cameo for No Regrets story
A big thank you to Irish radio station Newstalk, which quoted a Stereo Story on Tuesday 21 February.