Stereo Stories in concert: Word of mouth
It'e easy, especially these days, to blow your own trumpet. But what do other people say about Stereo Stories, particularly the live performances?
Stereo Stories Live at Sunshine Library: books, stories, music, toddlers
Stereo Stories' latest foray onto the stage was a quietly moving one-hour show at Sunshine Library on Saturday afternoon 12 September. Take a look!
Just Like A Woman by Bob Dylan. Story by Vin M
What is a 14 year old boy to make of Just Like A Woman? What does he know of fog, amphetamines and pearls? What does he know of standing inside the rain, of dying there of thirst, of a long-time curse?
Fathers’ Day at Stereo Stories
Fathers and fatherhood are universal themes.Here at Stereo Stories we celebrate Father's Day 2015 not with gifts of angle grinders and barbecues and golf balls but with stories, ten in all.
HE DOESN’T KNOW WHY by FLEET FOXES Story by Maria Majsa
Maria Majsa Auckland, New Zealand, early 1970s Western Springs College, Auckland 2012Inheritances run in families like a seam through generations; swallowed hopes and ambitions which sometimes find their full expression decades later.
How Blue Can You Get by BB King (Live at the Regal, 1964)
Luke R Davies Blacktown, New South Wales, 1986It was hairs standing up and goose bumps time. I am an atheist and this was as close to a religious experience I was ever going to get.
WATERLOO SUNSET by THE KINKS Story by Rick Kane
Rick Kane Northcote, Australia July 2015 London July 2010Vicki and I scan the north side of the river, trying to imagine what window of what flat Ray Davies peered out to look at people swarming like flies down below. Is he looking at us now?
Heartache Tonight by The Eagles. Story by David Oke
David Oke Colac , early 1980sFrom our vantage point of the stage we could see that CPR was being administered to someone. Someone who’d had a heart attack.
Totally Wired by The Fall
Maria Majsa The Marquee, Wardour Street, London 1984I headed for the place I’d seen him last, but all I found was blood on the floor. People had scrambled through it leaving sticky prints in every direction, like a contaminated crime scene.
Wavelength by Van Morrison
Vin Maskell Geelong 1979, Melbourne 1982We were talking and Van was singing. Tom, maybe you talked about your family, whom I’d never met. And maybe about your father, your distant, distant father.