Write. From the Heart.
Vin Maskell continues tracing the history of his family’s record collection, with cameos this week from The Screaming Tribesmen and The Girl From Ipanema.
The more I look at my list of nine columns the more I realise that none of the records belong to anyone anymore. They are not mine or my brothers’ or my sisters’ or my parents’. Or my brother’s wife’s. They belong to the beach-house at Moggs Creek.
Tickets are going fast for the first Stereo Stories gig of the year: 100 people have already booked seats for the 90 minute show at the new Geelong Library. Vin Maskell, Smokie Dawson and the Stereo Stories ensemble of writers and musicians hope to see you there.
In the diary at the family beach-house my brother’s wife has written a list to sum up their short holiday with their two young children. Rachel has written ten names, beginning with Michael Jackson and ending with The Doors.
Lorraine Pink grew up in The Netherlands, then England, then Australia, accompanied by the music of David Bowie. My father could not understand why a boy wanted to look like a girl, and was very confused that his daughter now wanted to dress like a boy. Bowie had opened my eyes to the world of [Read more]
Steven checked his phone. Nothing. Sometimes Rachel still texted him when there was no way around it. He craved the loud bling of his message tone. He was careful not to reply straight away, though.
A Stereo Story set in a Sydney laundromat based around Hotline Bling by the rather popular rapper Drake.
For Cassandra Atkinson it was only through her parents’ divorce and the breaking up of her family into smaller divided units that she realized the true nature of Paul Kelly’s How To Make Gravy.
Watching the gorgeous new movie The Dressmaker, Vin Maskell couldn’t help but notice, despite Kate Winslet’s considerable charms, that there was a good old-fashioned 1950s scoreboard in some of the shots.
So Vin contacted the props department and got the low-down on the making of the scoreboard and the filming of the footy scene, at Jung Recreation Reserve in the Wimmera.
For ten years a small group of former non-footballers have met on Sunday mornings for The Sherrin At The Fearon kick-to-kick sessions in Williamstown, opposite the beach. But numbers are dropping.
Stereo Stories is kicking off 2016 in style: our first gig of the year is at the exciting new Geelong Library and Heritage Centre.
Join us for 90 minutes of music and memoir on Sunday afternoon 7 February.
Where were you when you heard that John Lennon had been shot?
Stephen Andrew, a prolific writer of Stereo Stories, was having a swim in the Yarra at Warrandyte on that day 35 years ago.
Duets are really meant for two. Even poorly sung it needs two voices. Just like going to a Mick Thomas gig. I shouldn’t be here alone. I should be here with Steve.
There’s only one way to take a diagnosis of cancer in our family, writes Lucia Nardo in her latest Stereo Story. You get on with it. But the day of Martin’s surgery, I’m not getting on with it very well.
In the midst of family violence Maria Majsa found comfort in a little transistor playing Penny Lane: a brave and moving story by one of Stereo Stories’ finest writers.
Award-winning Yarraville writer Nick Gadd takes his daughter for a driving lesson, starting at Bunnings in Altona.
In 1996 Alan Attwood found himself alone in a Las Vegas honeymoon suite, writing up stories about Kerry Packer’s gambling and Mike Tyson’s demolition of Frank Bruno.
Melbourne writer Paul Bateman makes his Stereo Stories debut with a charming story about his wedding day at the Prince Albert Hotel in Williamstown, and Re:Stacks by Bon Iver.
Debut Stereo Story by Shu-Ling Chua about a music festival, temptation, a grandmother’s words and When A Fire Starts To Burn by Disclosure.
Coming up over the next few weeks: stories inspired by songs by Bon Iver, Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Emmylou Harris, and Warren Zevon.
Debut Stereo Story by NIDA student Clare Hennessy about being all at sea in Berlin, and about Now At Last I Know by Feist. Visit our partner site Stereo Stories. Coming up over the next few weeks: stories about songs by Disclosure, Bon Iver and Tom Waits.
The changing of the seasons moves Vin Maskell to verse.
It had to happen – a Stereo Story about a corny Christian country music song and an almost obsolete Australian Rules football skill.
Truth be told, this yarn first appeared here at the Almanac about five years back as part of a series about the drop kick. Now, though, there’s pics and music.
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