‘The model is broken’: Brisbane live music venue the Zoo to close after 32 years
Fortitude Valley institution and sister venue Stranded will soon shut as owner cites cost-of-living pressures and young people drinking less
February 2023
Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame review – bittersweet songs with added resonance
Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame review – intimate and life-affirming
January 2023
The perfect song
Robert Forster: Venus by Television is the most perfect song of all time
The former Go-Betweens frontman recounts how, as a teenager, he fell under the spell of Television’s album Marquee Moon
January 2022
My unforgettable gig
The Go-Betweens’ Lindy Morrison: I’ll never forget playing Roskilde, when chaos hit the Hoodoo Gurus
A potent cookie, a broken lift and a band on the brink take the drummer into surprising new territory at the Danish festival
February 2019
Robert Forster: Inferno review – loads of atmosphere and dry Brisbane wit
Former Go-Betweens frontman’s seventh solo album might be an acquired taste but nevertheless gets under your skin
September 2018
Songs of Brisbane
‘It’s a widely misunderstood song’: how the Go-Betweens made Streets of Your Town
Is the winner of Guardian Australia’s Songs of Brisbane poll about Brisbane? Even band members aren’t sure
Songs of Brisbane
Go-Betweens' Streets of Your Town takes out top spot in Songs of Brisbane poll
The Saints come in second with (I’m) Stranded and the Go-Betweens’ Cattle and Cane is in third place
Songs of Brisbane
Songs of Brisbane poll: 10 reasons why Powderfinger should beat the Go-Betweens
Jon Coghill
Songs of Brisbane
Go-Betweens' Lindy Morrison: Brisbane in the late 70s was fast and furious
Songs of Brisbane
Brisbane: brave music from a city that keeps pulling people back in
April 2018
Australian cities week
Rock in a hard place: the decline of the all-ages music venue
With Australia’s live music scene struggling to survive, Brisbane’s promoters are using open and alcohol-free gigs to attract younger music lovers. Will it work?
January 2018
How I fell in love with ...
How I fell in love with the Go-Betweens
Pádraig Collins
Seeing the Go-Betweens live for the first time was probably as close as I’ll ever get to a religious experience. Their lyrics still speak to me in middle age
August 2017
Jen Cloher review – a slow-burning masterpiece from a first-class songwriter
With a poet’s eye for details and the musical ear of a life spent wallowing in rock’n’roll, Cloher has well and truly come out of the shadows
July 2017
16 Lovers Lane review – love of the Go-Betweens overcomes patchy performances
Forget Augie March, even Paul Kelly, 16 Lovers Lane remains one of the most literary albums ever made by an Australian band
June 2017
The Go-Betweens: Right Here review – love and thunder on film
Music blog
Snub TV: cult music show that unearthed the underground
August 2016
Australia books blog
Grant & I review – Robert Forster writes moving, definitive portrait the Go-Betweens deserve
The heart of Forster’s memoir is his friendship with the ‘naive boy’ Grant McLennan, but it skirts the topic of heroin that hangs over it like a shadow
June 2016
10 of the best
The Go-Betweens – 10 of the best
From shambolic cult pop to more complex and even FM-friendly, these tracks display Grant McLennan’s melodic genius and Robert Forster’s lyrical brilliance
March 2016
The Goon Sax: Up to Anything review – like living in a great coming-of-age film
Brisbane teen trio impress with an eloquent set of songs that are self-deprecating but never maudlin, prematurely world-weary but never cynical
