ROCKET MAN by ELTON JOHN. Story by Lauren O’Hagan.
Music is always so much more than just music. It’s quite simply everything.
LAVADEIRA DO RIO by MARIA RITA. Story by Chiara Vascotto.
I had to choose well. Finally, my polished fingers landed on a yellow case, MPB Classics, and picked track nine.
THE TIME WARP from ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Story by Katherine Kovacic.
I heard a squeak from the seat beside me and looked across. Jen is pressed back in the burgundy velvet, eyes wide, a look of absolute horror on her face.
VOLUNTEERS by JEFFERSON AIRPLANE. Pilgrimage by Jim Landwehr.
If you listened hard enough, you could almost hear the echoes of Grace Slick wailing her backup vocals in her white tasseled top and her funked out hair.
LAST NIGHT I DREAMT SOMEBODY LOVED ME by THE SMITHS. Story by Samantha Straw.
I was somehow out of breath as if my heart had expanded in sorrow and joy, crushing my lungs.
Book review: Full Coverage by Samuel J Fell
Here’s a book about music writing that ticks a lot of boxes.
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE by THE BEATLES. Story by Darren ‘Smokie’ Dawson.
My Beatles education commenced, early before I was born
EVERLONG by FOO FIGHTERS. Story by Bill Arnott.
The wash of sea set a score, emanating from the base of high cliffs. I hoisted a pack and travel guitar, and made my way toward town.
GIMME SHELTER by THE ROLLING STONES. Poem by Mary Pomfret.
It was cold there at the border/I shouted your name, bitter/winds blew strong.
A meeting of rivers – Albury 2023
All photos by Peter Charlesworth. The river of song flowed into the river of story at our sixth appearance at Write Around the Murray, in Albury on Saturday 16 September. The guest writers, all new to the format of our show, embraced narrating their stories as the band weaved in the particular [...]