Stereo Stories
Footage above and below is from our show at Write Around the Murray on September 14, 2024. Above, author Danny Katz is ‘conducting’ the band, with cellist Laura Sheridan and accordionist Julie Merritt in the foreground. Below, Ninety seconds of Martina Medica pouring her heart and soul into the final verses of the Sinead O'Connor song Jackie, after Rijn Collins had delivered a stirring tribute to the late, great Irish singer and humanitarian.
Our five concerts in 2024 were in Williamstown, Geelong, Albury, Queenscliff and Brunswick.
As for 2025? Watch this space!
For past gigs, visit our concerts page.
To enquire about booking us, contact director Vin Maskell via our contact page or via email: sterestorieseditor@gmail.com
Here is our highlights reel from our 2023 shows in Queenscliff and Williamstown.
“Unforgettable night. Stories; memories; fragments of life; moments in time; all told within the mood of music. At times soft and seductive, at other times throbbing and beating; stories in stereo. Rich and enveloping, the words and tunes weave together.” Donata Carazza, director, 2022 Mildura Writers Festival.
'An utterly unique concept' blends music and memories - read more at The Age, 3 January 2022
For our Latest Stories simply keep scrolling down.
(We post new stories most weeks.)
For details of shows, see our Concerts & YouTube page.
For credits for the above video clip, see our August 2020 postcard
700 songs, 700 stories. See our A to Z list of stories.
230 writers. See our A to Z list of contributors.
Write a Stereo Story. See our guidelines.
Every so often you come across a song which can demolish you; take you down in slow-mo, floor by floor like an old hotel, ending in a puff of plaster and dust. Maria Majsa, writing about Between The Bars by Elliot Smith.
… AND THE BASSMAN PLAYS. Words by Bill Arnott. Music by Michael Averill
Flashback to the sixties, people living in the cities you got beatniks crossed with hippies sporting horizontal stripes and small goatees play a jazzy, minor chord, learn to smoke, renounce the lord
(SITTING ON) THE DOCK OF THE BAY by OTIS REDDING. Story by Bill Arnott.
In the lee of an old wooden dock with barnacled pilings, fishing boats bobbed at anchor.
$$ Spoilers $$ by Jarrow
David Oke The Dancing Dog, Footscray, May 2015 Heather and I grinned and looked at each other through the night, as if to say, ‘How did all this happen?’ ‘Is our son really this good?’ and ‘Who would have believed this?’
10th anniversary concert this June
Celebrate 10 years of music and memoir at Willy Lit Fest on Friday 14 June.
1952 VINCENT BLACK LIGHTNING by RICHARD THOMPSON Story by John Butler
I’m standing at the end of a long queue talking to a complete stranger. We both agree we never do this sort of thing. Myself, I’ve generally abided that warning about meeting your heroes.
1979 by THE SMASHING PUMPKINS Story by Jay Daniel Thompson
At 15, I could throw off the school uniform and fire up the mixtape and be transported to somewhere un-suburban and fun. Until, of course, it was time for dinner. Or Home and Away was about to begin.