Stereo Stories
Our next show is at The Memo Music Hall in St Kilda on Sunday afternoon 9 January 2022 (re-scheduled from 14 November 2021), with guests Brian Nankervis, Carmel Bird, Danny Katz and Jenny Valentish.
Thanks to everyone - musicians, writers, audience, Memo staff - for your patience.
More details, including tickets, via The Memo Music Hall website.
Our first show for 2021 was on Saturday evening 8 May at The Capital Theatre, Bendigo, in central Victoria. We performed a 75-minute concert as part of the Bendigo Writers Festival. Lots of pics.
Like thousands of other musicians, bands, writers, performers, actors, we have lost gigs the past two years due to Covid. We wish all those in the arts industry the very best in these hard times.
We couldn’t play at the Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury this year (due to Covid), so at the invitation of the festival, we made a little video.
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For credits for the above video clip, see our August 2020 postcard
600 songs, 600 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
$$ Spoilers $$ 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?’
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.
500 songs, 500 stories
Stereo Stories published its 500th story this morning.
A Capital night in Bendigo
Stereo Stories performed at The Capital Theatre on Saturday 8 May as part of the Bendigo Writers Festival. Good to be back in action.