Pinball Number Count on Sesame Street. Story by Emma Westwood
Emma Westwood Geelong, 1977 Melbourne, 2014This kind of almost avant-garde compositional material – that would give the Herbie Hancocks and Frank Zappas of this world a run for their money – was actually created to appeal to children. Call me gob-smacked.
PINK FLAG by WIRE. Story by Gideon Haigh
It was only as the band members sloped off that they looked a little senior for all this excitement, ready for bed and a Horlicks. The mood in the audience was not just ecstatic but validated.
POOL PARTY by JULIA JACKLIN. Story by Gemma Keating.
It was strange: I listened to it, and the unspoken words hanging between us were suddenly said – not by him, or me, but by this angelic voice from afar. It was an admission, an apology. No, it was a plea. No, maybe it was just a song.
POOR BOY BY SPLIT ENZ Story by Hugh Jones
Here in my city I’m fretting after my father, lost in the aftermath of a stroke and the creeping invasion of inoperable cancer.
Poor Places by Wilco. Story by Stephen Andrew.
Stephen Andrew The Palace, St Kilda, 2003I reckon that I, one of tens of thousands who would have seen that Wilco tour poster, was the only one who shed tears upon viewing it.
Port Fairy in 76 seconds
We’ll be at the Port Fairy Literary Weekend on Saturday 3 September, 2022.