Take Me by Kiss. Fiction by John Weldon
Fiction by John Weldon Traffic lights, Melbourne. September 2010 It was completely meaningless, totally shallow and absolutely without any relevance to anything going on in my life. Perfect.
Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond
Kerrie Soraghan Pool room, Deer Park, 31 October 1982 On Saturday mornings Dad always sang along loudly to Song Sung Blue on our tinny stereo: mortifying in the extreme to a teenage daughter full of her own pretensions
Stereo Stories on Radio National
Pull up a chair, pour a cup of tea and listen to the 20 minute Stereo Stories segment broadcast on Radio National on Monday evening 21 July, 2014.
Free As A Bird by The Beatles. Story by Ian Carpenter
Ian Carpenter Ferguson St, Williamstown 1962 At home the Oklahoma soundtrack would not get a look in as the battle to control the family radiogramme had begun.
Get Dancin’ by Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
Stephen Andrew High school quadrangle, Melbourne. Lunchtime, 1975 On my fourteenth birthday my best mate, Peter, presented me with two gifts, one of which I still hold close to my heart.
Hello Goodbye by The Beatles. Fiction by Stephen Kimber
Fiction by Stephen Kimber A country town, outside a dance, night. Out of pure ignorance I'd done something right. She smiled at me.
Red River Shore by Bob Dylan. Story by Vin M
That first summer I heard about the girl from the Red River Shore I felt a little better, if a little sadder, about the world.
Holiday in Cambodia by Dead Kennedys. Story by Nick Cowling
Nick Cowling Driving in Hoppers Crossing, a Thursday afternoon. August 2011 That day I realised that I can still listen to metal and that I don’t need to be a music fascist and devote myself to only one genre.
F–k Art Let’s Dance by 5.15. Story by Stephen Andrew.
Stephen Andrew Student hostel, West Geelong 1982 I didn’t get a Mohawk, nor cut up and safety pin my clothes. I kept my phlegm to myself. I was a part-time punk.
Welcome to Stereo Stories
Welcome to Stereo Stories
Above: The Stereo Stories Band of writers and musicians will be playing at
Newport Bowls Club on Sunday 19 October, 2pm. Details below.
Take a song, a place and a time, and you may well have a Stereo Story: a short memoir inspired by a piece of music.
Stereo Stories are about pop and country and jazz and rock, about love and family and humour.
Stereo Stories are about punk and metal and folk. About school and life and love and grief.
And always about being a fan.
Welcome aboard.