Damian Balassone’s latest book is Chime. It collects the best song lyrics, ballads and narrative poems from two earlier volumes.
Mike Brady's guitar strums ripple through the MCG and reverberate through the living room.
Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Monday 18 September 2023 A new week has dawned outside this all-but-empty house in the country that I’ve come to call home. As Monday morn becomes more of a memory, I stay seated at my desk with a sick cavoodle on my lap and a view of [...]
We have been looking at other people’s houses. Not like the characters – a cleaner and her child – in Paul Kelly’s 1992 song. No, not like that at all.
Who were they – this Sparks? No internet back then/No instant information. You remained agog before Google.
Although mine was a record and dad’s was a tape, there was no mistaking a shift in the axis that staked our two worlds.
I knew that the only way to achieve full closure on this difficult chapter of my life was to go to London and retrace Rory’s own steps by walking his Lonely Mile. It would be a strange form of pilgrimage for me.
You called me from somewhere in the desert for 88 nights/When I was living somewhere by the sea
Was it the siren song of an Ice Queen aboard their vessel that caused the sailors to turn off the echo sounder’s low water depth alarm?
Here's the promo clip for our show at Write Around the Murray on Saturday 16 September, 2023. Hope to see you there! Big thank you to video editor Jesse Maskell, Stereo Stories musicians Matt McGrath and Peter Maskell, and Write Around the Murray for photos and footage. Thanks also to Jeff Lang for permission [...]