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The Go-Betweens

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Ashleigh Merritt: How would you describe the music that you play? Robert Forster: It's like running water off thin, white strips of aluminium. . . Merritt: Will you be the future of rock and roll? Forster: I, I, I doubt it. We could be. The Go-Betweens were Australia's most artistically successful and influential rock group of the 1980s. Their roots lay in the 1970s in the oppressive, endless summer heat of Brisbane. They were at various times outrageous, absurd and manic. Their music was elegantly crafted pop and their lyrics were intellectual, evocative and distinctly Australian. This book is more than a bland detailing of gigs and chart positions. It portrays real people who happened - through their politics, egos and creative urges - to become swept up in a rock movement that changed other people's lives as much as it changed their own.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface The new Velvet Underground The Australian Go-Betweens show Brisbane Let's camp it up! Baroona Hall Rob likes the word go Funk! Punk! Spunk! Zero The sound of young Scotland 1980 Send me a lullaby The Go-Betweens are telling me lies Before Hollywood Robert Vickers Can you shut your fucking mouth for a minute? Out of step They wonder why I'm neurotic. I have to hang around with them! Liberty Belle Very quick on the eye Tallulah 16 Lovers Lane Freakchild Watershed Discography Who they were then/Where are they now Notes

About the Author :
David Nichols is a Melbourne-based musician and writer whose work has appeared in everything from Smash Hits to Juice and Puncture. He is currently writing computer manuals, playing in bands and doing a PhD in Australian Urban History.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781864483352
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 215 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1864483350
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English


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