Like arc welding, I think lyric decipherment, when it comes to micro grindcore, is quite a specialised skill. There’s possibly a TAFE, or adult education course in it.
The sounds of the snipping scissors and whirring electric clippers were hypnotising, and I felt myself drifting off.
I came across a song that I hadn't listened to for ages, a song that when I first heard it, was a real life changing moment.
For about nine months we worked and played as a double act. Steve helped me cover Oxford United Football Club’s first home match in First Division (and was threatened with a knife by a nervous scalper he stopped in the street outside), while I tagged along to concerts he was covering (remember Squeeze or Level 42?).
Listen to Cher Finver of Nevada narrate her story about Innocent Man, backed by The Stereo Stories Band.
Michael Leach celebrates his birthday with a song and a poem.
In 1970, I was the drummer and pyrotechnician in the south London 5-piece band Heatwave. (You could say I put the 'heat' into 'Heatwave'!)
She shared her name with the character in Blue Bay Blues so perhaps that is how Richard’s 1978 album Past Hits And Previews became the soundtrack to our summer afternoons.
In the first of a very occasional series we trace the travels of the Stereo Stories coffee mug!
Here and now, a deer disappears over the distant mound. Three ducks peacefully paddle, winding their way ahead of the flowing waterfall gently calling me towards the steep terrain of my nightmares.