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     Padraig Collins |
Played In Your Bright Ray yesterday for the first time in a few years. Several great songs. I was struck by the reference to Mrs Morgan in Sea Breeze. I presume she is the same eponymous character in the BYBO track. Sorry if this discussion has been had before, but what other examples are there of characters popping up in more than one Go-Betweens, Grant or Robert album? (Or Jack Frost or FOC for that matter). | ||
| david nichols |
See last chapter of my book for discussion with GMcL about Mrs. Morgan. She is based on a real person, a family friend, whose name is not Morgan. | ||
| Cassiel |
I think Mrs Morgan first pops up in Trapeze Boy off the first Jack Frost affair. Grant narrates a story about how he hadn't thought of Mrs Morgan for a long time until he reads about her death in the papers. She used to play cards with his mum, gave him a piece of opal and told him to give it to a sweetheart. I think it goes on about how her husband ran a circus; the trapeze boy of the title falls off and dies and Grant finds Mrs M crying in her Mum's kitchen. The vignette, while novelistic, has the ring of authenticity; and could be the whole reason she has become fixed in Grant's memory. The Jack Frost albums get a bit ignored, perhpas for good reason. But the first, eponymous one has some great songs on it: Trapeze Boy; Providence is glorious, though it's a Kilbey song I think; and I have always loved 'Thought I Was Over You,' the first line in particular: 'When I first saw you at the opening/ Somebody's hand was up your dress.' It's a very spiteful song, quite unGrant in a way. Perhaps it was all the, um, stuff he and Kilbey were supposedly taking. | ||
| Randy Adams |
I like the Jack Frost records a lot, including the Kilbey songs like "Everything Takes Forever." I view the Jack Frost exercise as a chance taken by Grant to do some of the things that Robert would never have countenanced, i.e., psychedeia. | ||
| david nichols |
G McL told me last year Mrs Morgan (or at least her real-life inspiration) is still alive. |