Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
Casselise Rowe Between Coober Pedy and William Creek, outback Australia, June 2007Two stray horses trotted up to the car, out of nowhere, curiously looking in on us as if also wanting to hear the music.
Bruise Violet by Babes In Toyland. Story by Rijn Collins.
Rijn Collins The Metro, Melbourne, November 1995Agoraphobia starts slowly. There’s a tremble of a hand on the doorknob, a flutter of your heart on the tram, and then suddenly it’s been two years of watching your housemates walk down the front path, without you.
Beat on the Brat by The Ramones. Fiction by Aimee Said
Fiction by Aimee Said Siouxsie’s bedroom, suburbia, 2010I let loose with some side kicks and moderate headbanging myself. When the track finishes we fall onto the bed, puffed and laughing like loons.
Aneurysm by Nirvana. Story by Matthew Naqvi
Matthew Naqvi Lounge room, 3.45pm, 2004, BroadmeadowsMy parents didn’t mind because this was as troublesome as I got.
All Or Nothing At All by Vince Jones. Story by Nick Gadd
Nick Gadd Kitchen, Saronno, Italy, January 1990I was working as an English teacher at a chewing gum factory, and Lynne had a job at a language school in Milan.
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus by Frank Zappa
Stephen Andrew Lounge room, Warrandyte 1975My inner ear quivered like a Jack Russell on heat as I rode home on the bus. I slid out the disc, looked at the warm, mustard-coloured Reprise record label and lowered the needle onto the outside groove.
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. Fiction by Nick Gadd
Fiction by Nick Gadd A home in Yarraville, Melbourne. A Friday evening 2008The guy selling the sax was over sixty, a retired postman, but he played ten times better than Philip ever would.
ANTMUSIC by ADAM AND THE ANTS Story by Rachel Howlett
Rachel Howlett Brashs Record store Melbourne,1981I double-checked the orange CBS label before handing over my two dollars, made up of Charles and Diana commemorative fifty-cent coins.
Cup Eve with the Accordion Orchestra of Melbourne
Vin Maskell Coatesville Bowling Club, Bentleigh. Monday 1 November, 2010. Cup Eve.In a way the evening was Broadway Danny Rose meets Cocoon. But more moving. Much more moving.
Stereo Stories Live 2014: full house for Newport gig
Stereo Stories played to a full house at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday 6 July 2014. The venue was the intimate Newport Scout Hall, with log fire burning. Six stories and songs were performed in the 45 minute set […]