Hope plays with with The Stiletto Sisters, The Persephone Project, My Friend The Chocolate Cake and many others.
We are two writers and performers of verse born in regional Victoria back in ’83, two people who are now pushing 40, who are now moving even further from youth radio station Triple J’s target demographic.
On the train/we ran through fields of wildflowers/as if in slow motion...
Darren 'Smokie' Dawson, a very popular story-teller at our concerts, has counted down his 50 favourite Beatles songs and along the way has written a family history of sorts.
A few seconds pass. His gaze goes behind the counter. To a small ornate wooden frame. And an image inside. “Is that Mary?” “No. It’s Jesus. It’s a da Vinci. From a museum in Amsterdam.”
Northbound on the turnpike/across vague acres/at evening's beginning.
The centre of our social universe was Dingley. Two of the more socially sophisticated girls had cool parents who let them throw parties and for this particular party I dressed carefully.
“It’s love sickness, sir.” I wanted to respond. “A bad case.”
The Stereo Stories Band returned to Albury in September for its sixth annual show at the lovely Write Around The Murray festival.
Christmas songs and carols are often a reminder of the ideal family experience, but that is not the case for many.