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.
- ISBN10 1891241168
- ISBN13 9781891241161
- Publish Date 28 April 2003 (first published 1 May 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Puncture Publications
- Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.
- Edition 3rd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English