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 [...]
In viewing the John Lee Hooker guitar I was taken straight back to the many years of joy the Blues Brothers movie had brought me.
Together we embraced the galaxial view, climbed higher and higher. Reaffirmed choices, what got us there, advances and setbacks, every moment a soundtrack
As the night wore on, we took turns sharing our dreams of a world free from authority and limitations.
Ron S Peno, the compelling self-taught singer of Died Pretty, died on Friday night, 11 August, at his home in South Yarra, Melbourne.