Stereo Stories

Williamstown 2025. Photo by Eric Algra.
Williamstown 2025. Photo by Eric Algra.
I've been to Greasy Lake many times in the thirty years I’ve liked Springsteen, even though it doesn’t exist.
As I swayed to the rhythm and pulse of the song, I watched early morning Toronto on display like a Vermeer painting.
It was only when I listened back to my song that I realised what it was about.
Would I be able to convince my Belfast family that there was a better world out there?
I didn’t know what was popular amongst my peers, didn’t really care. It didn’t bother me if I was considered weird.
Thomas Mayo, Jane Caro and Rijn Collins are amongst the guest writers for our concert at Write Around the Murray in Albury on Saturday 13 September.
The music and lyrics to many of her recordings rolled across my mind like a red carpet welcoming my memories.
With a couple of drinks and the old audio system turned up as loud as it would go, we put Nutbush on rotation and hit the timeworn wooden floorboards.
I listen to the lyrics, 'we’re fated to pretend', like a mantra. Is this what it means to be in your 20s?
A guitar rests in a corner, beside the open fire. “Can you play?” A melody reverberates as the clock on the kitchen counter clicks over to 3am.