Search Results for: Vin Maskell

Almanac Music – Stereo Stories: Facebook on my mind

February 26, 2021 by 3 Comments

The recent Facebook changes didn’t just impact the Almanac – partner site Stereo Stories also had to work out a way forward. Site founder Vin Maskell ruminates on an interesting week and a slow return to normality.

The fourth jumper

August 10, 2020 by 4 Comments

Vin Maskell’s trio of particularly personal football jumpers is now a quartet, courtesy of a recent gift from a coach.

The Footy Almanac 2007 Round 16 – Richmond v Port Adelaide: Six times tables don’t cover 24 goals

July 15, 2020 by Leave a Comment

When the struggling Tigers met the Grand Final bound Power in 2007, it wasn’t pretty. But Vin Maskell reflects on how it provided some kids a chance to develop their mathematical skills.

Three jumpers

June 21, 2020 by 4 Comments

Vin Maskell re-visits, and updates, his football jumper stories, threading through themes of life and remembrance.

The Footy Almanac 2007 Round 6 – Essendon v Hawthorn: The Buddy show slams the hapless Bombers

May 3, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Vin Maskell went to the MCG for some Saturday arvo footy. With the game teetering each way, it was Lance Franklin who put on a heroic performance to push his Hawks to victory.

When Stereo Stories met the Footy Almanac

April 26, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Vin Maskell, creative director of Stereo Stories, looks back at a crucial meeting with John Harms of the Footy Almanac.

Bruce Dawe: A Poet remembered

April 3, 2020 by 2 Comments

Vin Maskell is a huge fan of Bruce Dawe, and shares his previously published stories of the poet as a tribute to celebrate the life that has just passed.

Meeting Geoff Blethyn

November 16, 2018 by 8 Comments

Sometimes writing takes you to surprising places, and so does a T/shirt! Vin Maskell explains why.

Almanac Book Review – How the West was One

November 21, 2017 by 2 Comments

Blow-in Vin Maskell (who has only lived in the west since 1986) reviews the wonderful new collection of memoirs about growing up in the Melbourne’s Western Suburbs. How the West was One is a lovable book.

Drive All Night. Brothers. Stereo Story.

June 3, 2017 by 2 Comments

This week Vin Maskell joins the dots between Glen Hansard, a love song from the Springsteen double album The River, and a five-minute drive from Moggs Creek to the Aireys Inlet general store.

Lit Fest looming: Almanackers front and centre

May 27, 2017 by 2 Comments

Almanackers are once again front and centre at the Williamstown Literary Festival on the weekend of 17 and 18 June.

Kerrie Soraghan, Yvette Wroby, John Harms, Smokie Dawson and Vin Maskell are amongst the guest speakers.

Stereo Story: first time I heard State Trooper

February 2, 2017 by 1 Comment

Vin Maskell recalls the first time he heard Springsteen’s State Trooper, from the Nebraska album…the sixth song began, its guitar line pulsating like a fresh bruise.

First kiss: New Year’s Eve poem for an unknown song

December 31, 2016 by Leave a Comment

Vin Maskell shifts the goalposts a little in this short poem about a long ago New Year’s Eve, a kiss, and table-tennis.

450 scoreboards, and counting

May 14, 2016 by 2 Comments

A few seasons ago Almanackers Les Everett and Vin Maskell began their Scoreboard Pressure project: a website about, yep, scoreboards. From Adelaide Oval to Airport West to Afghanistan; from the MCG to Uranquinty, from Yarck to Yea to Yealering.

Summer Stereo Story – beach house records, part 2

January 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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.

Stereo Stories Live in Geelong: tickets going fast

January 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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.

The Dressmaker’s scoreboard

December 23, 2015 by 2 Comments

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.

Almanac poetry: Season’s over

October 10, 2015 by 2 Comments

The changing of the seasons moves Vin Maskell to verse.

Almanac Music: The Bob Dylan Telephone Directory

September 17, 2015 by Leave a Comment

What is a 14 year old to make of ‘fogs, amphetamines and pearls? Vin Maskell writes about Bob Dylan’s performance of Just Like A Woman at the 1971 Concert For Bangla Desh.

Almanac Music: A good night for the roses at Stereo Stories’ latest gig

August 6, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Stereo Stories’ fifth gig in less than four months was at Victoria University’s Footscray Park Campus on Thursday evening 30 July. A night of new stories and lovely musicianship. Vin Maskell was there.