yep, it just wouldn't be right if record companies didn't cash in on death...

i like the bonus stuff.

no these were planned for a while and Send Me A Lullaby (2CD Remastered) Before Hollywood (2CD Remastered) Spring Hill Fair (2CD Remastered) have been availible on import for a few years. They are about half the price of the imports.

They've all been available for years on Lomax

Is this the first local release for any of them then?

they've all been available on import. But only half had slipcases and there were other things. They are cleaned up now.

And yeah the deal was done way before...in fact, there's a best of Grant and Robert's solo years coming in November. Grant finished the tracklisting just befoe he died. I'm pretty sure those albums are long deleted?

The video where Grant came up and sang to me {and a few others} is now on YouTube

Was it posted by M&N's glamnesia?

can anyone pick HEB in this video?

is it time for another gobs tribute cousin creep?

another? did cousin creep have something to do with this one?:

i found it in the red eye second hand section a few years ago and was very happy

i had only just discovered the go-betweens at the time, the liner notes were very inspiring

features a great cover of clouds by frente which at the time i thought was genius

the cous man is response for this one.

it might be time for another one, with maybe a directional change.

martha wainright doing........cattle and cain
dan kelly doing.....dive for your memory.....

From a triple j mailout;

"A special GO-BETWEENS TRIBUTE headlines triple j's 2006 AUSMUSIC MONTH. Throughout November, there'll be live gigs across the country, the best new Australian music, the J Award winner announcement, the music quiz to end them all... and a few surprises to come.

triple j has lined up a stellar cast for a one-off massive TRIBUTE to the GO-BETWEENS (Brisbane's Tivoli, Thursday 30 November) to celebrate the late GRANT MCLENNAN. The line-up will feature a house band of Go-Between members GLENN THOMPSON and ADELE PICKVANCE, led by the awesome DAVE MCCORMACK and his brother DYLAN. Guest singers include SARAH BLASKO, GLEN RICHARDS (AUGIE MARCH), DARREN HANLON, TOBY MARTIN (YOUTH GROUP) and BOB EVANS, plus some guitar power from IAN HAUG of POWDERFINGER. With more singers still to be announced, this will be special."

Sounds pretty cool, I can't wait to hear it.

"With more singers still to be announced"

Idol final five?

oh man, i'm THERE.

dammit!!! That sounds so great

Prize for Go-Between at a critical point in his career

ROBERT Forster and Grant McLennan enjoyed more critical acclaim than most Australian rock acts during their lengthy tenure as The Go-Betweens.
In the past 18 months, however, Forster has been showing he is just as accomplished at writing critical essays as he is at earning the praise of others.

And last night Forster's insights in his music columns for The Monthly magazine earned him the Critic of the Year 2006 Pascall Prize.

One of the columns, published in July, was a tribute to McLennan, whose death at the age of 48 in May brought an untimely end to The Go-Betweens and to the friendship the two had enjoyed since they attended Queensland University together and formed the band in the late 1970s.

"With the passing of Grant I've had to reassess completely where I'm going, what I can do and what I want to do," Forster said. "Writing, in that broad sense of the word, seems to have come my way. This prize, if I needed one more piece of encouragement - that's it."

The prize - $15,000 - is awarded annually by the Geraldine Pascall Foundation, set up in 1988 to commemorate the famous Sydney critic and journalist on The Australian and to encourage excellence in critical writing on the arts and culture.

Surprisingly, Forster's only previous experience as a critic was when he wrote a column on hair care for a friend's fanzine in Manchester, England.

"I've had a lot of small false starts for stories or with the idea I could write a novel, which peters out after a page," he said yesterday.

"It wasn't like I had a whole lot of form."

Forster's essays have included appraisals of Australian band Augie March and Nick Cave, as well as articles on the Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond and Franz Ferdinand. The songwriter said the piece on McLennan had been by far the most difficult to write.

"That was four weeks of work," he said. "It was really good for me, taking up my time and looking back. It was the longest piece I've done - 3000 words, and there were one or two difficult areas, especially when I went into his depression. That was the hardest bit to write."

And his opinion of other rock critics? "I don't find it an 'us and them' thing. That's a bit old school," he said.

Forster's next column is on The Countdown Spectacular.

thanks for posting that kuroneko. where's it from? is that the SMH piece?

sorry Louis, that piece was from The Australian

There's also articles from the aforementioned SMH and ABC Online.

I like Robert. I'd like to have him over for dinner.

is there anywhere you can read the essay he wrote on mr mclennan?

Here

Separate thread for the tribute show mentioned by goingblank above has been started here

Popboomerang, if you're who I think you are, then I can thank you for introducing me to the Go-Betweens way back in the day (via the TFC mailing list from memory).

i'm sure he is me!

fwiw, you can hear excerpts from both discs over here

Judging by those excerpts... I am very, very, very glad the Oceans Apart songs have been re-done.

Now if only they'd fix the whole album...

my copy of oceans apart is fine, what's wrong with yers?

ridiculous overuse of peak limiting

Fixed

Excellent work Ash!

In other news, I'm trying to help out a friend o/s who has a music video show (on cable telly) and he wants to play the 'Cattle and Cane' clip. Anyone here able to point me in the direction of someone responsible for making or owning the rights to this?

The ''clip'' was made for ABC's Countdown in the Ripponlea Studios
So you'd need to ask Aunty

Robert was amazing last night at Thornbury Theatre.

He was pretty fantastic. Great story teller. And the wine was very reasonably priced.

details

What is this image meant to convey!!!

the way the type is set out on that poster makes it looks like the deceased Grant McLennan will be playing.

Necromancy - bad stuff for gig promoters to get caught up in.

what the?

Or maybe he's playing an really brief showcase set from 7.58 to 8.08pm.

ugh the idea of that allo darlin singer destroying a bunch of go betweens songs makes me nauseous

Given Allo Darlin's Go-Betweens love we've asked them to play every year. This year, the gods are smiling on us as Elizabeth Morris - the Australian Go-Between, if you like - isn't on tour and is playing an exclusive solo set of Grant covers.

geez

Look what's on that evening in the same venue