Episode 12 - Andrew Stafford

What do you love about music? What are your favourite records? Have you ever felt like a song  has saved your life?

For Andrew Stafford, todays guest… music did just that… and in his words… because those who can’t play music review it, he has carved out a career writing about music instead. Andrew Stafford is a freelance journalist and the author of Pig City, a celebrated musical and political history of Brisbane. He has written for The Age, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald among others. 

And In 2019 we sat down in his Brisbane home, surrounded by a pretty incredible record collection to talk about his second book, a beautiful and incredibly moving memoir called SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN.

In our chat we cover what makes a great song, some of our favourite records, another classic book/film High Fidelity,  and we start with me asking him to describe the very intimidating record collection stacked up around us. 

Produced by Old Fashioned Studios

Hosted by Bradley McCaw

Sound design by Matt Erskine & Cross Point Solutions

Story Producer & additional engineering by Gilang Candraditya

Theme composed by James Ryan

Andrew Stafford:

Is an Australian author of two books (Something To Believe In, UQP, 2019; also Pig City, UQP, 2004, reissued in a third edition in 2014), and freelance journalist (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Griffith Review and others).