SAILING TO PHILADELPHIA by MARK KNOPFLER. Essay by Ann Banham.
I am intrigued with the lyrics sung by the distinctive gravelly vocals of Knopfler. Who is this Jeremiah Dixon?
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CENTRE STAGE Matt McGrath
Geelong drummer Matt McGrath will be playing on his home ground when The Stereo Stories Band performs its Nick Cave show at the Local Word Festival on Saturday 24 August.
BADGE by CREAM. Poem by Craig Kirchner.
I’m reading about an outbreak of laughter, /that broke out at a girl’s school, /ended up involving the whole town,
Quick stix for Albury tix
Tickets are now on sale for our concert at Write Around the Murray in Albury on Saturday 14 September.
MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS by MANIC STREET PREACHERS. Story by Grace La Pace.
The six-minute masterpiece Motorcycle Emptiness truly was a rare opus in my incredibly mundane life.
YEAR OF THE CAT by AL STEWART. Story by Paul Gleeson.
Mum was fiddling with the dial, but the glitchy radio was not getting her urgency—pure static.
SO WHAT by MILES DAVIS. Poem by D.R. James.
Divorceville, Michigan, December 1999. Mind/ful/l of Miles What’s new? I too am kind of blue, ear buds soothing “So What,” Chambers and then Evans noodling Gil E.’s intro. Sooo what? Upright walks in the tune, conjures modal three-part sooo what’s. No mute for Miles, just cool, [...]
Into Nick Cave’s Arms with The Stereo Stories Band
We are delighted to be part of a very special show at the Local Word Writers Festival in Geelong on Saturday 24 August.
STAND by REM. Story by Nicole Langtip.
It’d be almost another year of blasting it out on repeat though til the song actually got into my bones, got in there so deeply, that it took me by the hand and transported me into my new life.