IF I CAN DREAM by ELVIS PRESLEY. Story by Violet St Clair.
The Heartbreak Hotel was a real gem, with kitschy Elvis memorabilia, framed photographs of all sizes and a pink plush telephone so fluffy I expected it to purr.
SEARCHING by INXS.Story by Martina Medica.
I watch the funeral on my own, in bed, after recording it. I don’t want to watch it in real time with others around me, the people who don’t understand, who tell me I'm being silly.
CENTRE STAGE Laura Sheridan
"Her playing underpins the feeling of every song she plays on. How did we exist so many years without her beautiful cello playing?”
SCOTT STREET by PHOEBE BRIDGERS. Story by Jennifer Manoogian.
The blue star light went to my room, the Pokémon poster and books went to my sister, and the guitar went to a corner in the living room, where everyone fights the urge to strum it when they walk past. What are we if not pieces of our older sibling, broken off and handed to us as they grow?
KIND OF A DRAG by THE BUCKINGHAMS. Poem by Craig Kirchner.
Craig Kirchner takes us to the drug store corner of his teenage years in Baltimore.
Tempo Rubato preview
Here's a preview of one of the songs we'll be performing at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick on Saturday 30 November.
IN A LITTLE WHILE by U2. Story by Tess Macrae.
Returning to Melbourne always felt like a slow deflation, but I had Paddy and our photos and stories and reminiscences to keep me going through the school term. I longed for open skies and mountains, physical work and companionship, stars and weather and cold.
Albury alchemy
Albury, New South Wales, 14 September, 2024. Gemma Keating It is always a privilege, and a joy, to perform at the Write Around the Murray festival (WAM) in Albury, as we have done for seven years now, going back to 2016. We never take any show, or any audience, for granted. We [...]
The Queenscliff ovation
Photo courtesy of Queenscliffe Literary Festival. When Indigenous author and Voice referendum campaigner Thomas Mayo concluded his story at our show last Saturday night the 300-strong audience broke into sustained applause that very, very quickly became a standing ovation. Mayo’s story, ultimately one of hope, was what the Kev Carmody/Paul Kelly song [...]
FOR MICHAEL COLLINS, JEFFERY AND ME by JETHRO TULL. Story by BAZ BLAKENEY.
Few people, myself included, gave quite as much thought to the third astronaut of Apollo 11, Michael Collins, the muggins who circled the moon alone before picking up the hitchhikers for the return trip. A year after the event,