Tag: The Go-Betweens

Robert Forster sets UK book tour for 'Grant & I: Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens'

Robert Forster sets UK book tour for ‘Grant & I: Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens’

Robert Forster, the surviving co-founder of Australia’s The Go-Betweens, will embark on a book tour of the U.K. and Ireland this September to promote the publication of the paperback edition of “Grant & I: Inside and Outside The Go-Betweens.” Autographed copies can be pre-ordered online.

Watch: The surviving Go-Betweens look back in trailer for new documentary 'Right Here'

Watch: The surviving Go-Betweens look back in trailer for new documentary ‘Right Here’

Director Kriv Stenders’ new documentary on the beloved, if criminally underappreciated, Australian indie-rock act The Go-Betweens will premiere next month at the Sydney Film Festival in the band’s home country, and a new trailer offers fans an early look at the film. See the film’s trailer here.

New releases: The Church, OMD, Art of Noise. The Go-Betweens, Stiff Little Fingers

New releases: The Church, OMD, Art of Noise. The Go-Betweens, Stiff Little Fingers

This week’s new releases include the belated U.S. issue of the new studio album from The Church (“Further/Deeper”), plus a reissue of OMD’s “Junk Culture,” a new Art of Noise compilation, a CD/LP box set of The Go-Betweens’ early work, plus a Stiff Little Fingers live album.

Steve Kilbey releases 3-hour film documenting 1991 U.S. tour with Grant McLennan

Steve Kilbey releases 3-hour film documenting 1991 U.S. tour with Grant McLennan

The Church’s Steve Kilbey dropped a New Year’s surprise for fans, releasing a nearly 3-hour documentary that features performances, interviews and “general horsing around” that he filmed during the short 1991 U.S. tour by Jack Frost, his group with Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens.

Vintage Video: The Go-Betweens on Australian TV show 'Rock Arena' — full 30-minute set

Vintage Video: The Go-Betweens on Australian TV show ‘Rock Arena’ — full 30-minute set

For this week’s installment of Vintage Video, we head Down Under for this nine-song, 30-minute performance by The Go-Betweens on Australian television show “Rock Arena” that aired in December 1987, about six months after the release of the band’s fifth album, ‘Tallulah.’

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (February 2012)

Download: Auto Reverse — Slicing Up Eyeballs Mixtape (February 2012)

This month’s Auto Reverse mixtape includes new music from The Wedding Present and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, plus new remixes of The Cure and Depeche Mode and plenty of old faves by the likes of The Chills, Kraftwerk, Squeeze, Oingo Boingo, The Go-Betweens and many, many more.