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 [...]
Two more writers have been added to each of our final shows for 2024.
Every summer he drove across the country in a clapped-out vehicle to see us kids, but he always went back. Back to where he had a stool at the bar and a nickname he loved: the Professor.
Tickets are now available for our show at Tempo Rubato in Brunswick on Saturday evening 30 November.
References to places in Belfast also appear in the lyrics, Hyndford St, Cypress Avenue. Locations around Northern Ireland, Newtownards, Comber, Coney Island. Van was nailing it for me. I knew the places he was weaving into his lyrics. Belfast was becoming famous through his songs.
We return to the Queenscliffe Literary Festival on the Bellarine peninsula on Saturday evening, 26 October.
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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.
Tickets are now on sale for our concert at Write Around the Murray in Albury on Saturday 14 September.
We are delighted to be part of a very special show at the Local Word Writers Festival in Geelong on Saturday 24 August.