| Author | Message | ||
     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 306 Registered: 05-2005 |
...... whats the chances of us having some sort of Go-Betweens convention? The main problem is that we are scattered all over Europe, The USA and Australia. Can it be done? Maybe tie it in with the tour for the next album? Nothings impossible these days, is it? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 286 Registered: 05-2005 |
I mentioned this, sort of jokingly, but sort of not, in another thread. I said we should all meet in Spring Hill at fair time and dress as our favourite Go-Between. Bags not being Robert in a dress. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 81 Registered: 12-2004 |
What about declaring an International Go-Betweens Day with meetings in various places. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 269 Registered: 04-2005 |
I guess Hardin, Jeff, Randy, and I could organize the U.S. West Coast GoB-con! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 309 Registered: 03-2005 |
All four of us. That's about how many people there were at the Troubadour when they played last spring. I like the idea of meeting in Spring Hill. Maybe we'd get to experience one of those crazy Brisbane storms. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 290 Registered: 05-2005 |
I don't know what Brisbane storms are like, but if they are anything like the spectacular electrical storms we get on the Sydney coast then they would be something to behold. I wonder if Ed Kuepper's Electrical Storm is about Sydney (where he lives) or Brisbane (where he's from). | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 96 Registered: 11-2004 |
I heard that album for the first time yesterday Padraig! (thought I would 'research' Kuepper as I downloaded a superb Laughing Clowns MP3 a while ago and was very intrigued) To me its mixed - the tracks are either brilliant or not s'good. Knowing me I will probably grow to love the whole album. Whats your pick for best Laughing Clowns record? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 312 Registered: 03-2005 |
Matt, just spring for the full "Cruel but Fair" set. It's all worth it. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 275 Registered: 03-2006 |
I vote for Cichli Suite's Italian pied a' terre as the site for the first Annual GB Fan Con!...if he hosts, I'm so there dude...pauper that I am, I'll scrape up air fare... Also, I read about Flaming Lips heading up the entertainment for some kind of psychedelic lifestyles cruise...Not that I care for FL (they make for fun reading, however), but it struck me that the idea could work for the GBs...imagine - we could ask them all these scintillating questions, about production, songwriting, acoustic vs. electric, in person... Being the devoted fans we are, I think we deserve that kind of access! | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 40 Registered: 06-2005 |
Ed Kuepper has been living in Brisbane for at least the last 5 or so years. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 41 Registered: 06-2005 |
(unless he has left again in the last few months?!) | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 107 Registered: 08-2004 |
Nice suggestion, Hardin! and you can all stay at my apartment too. I haven't said anything to Mrs Suite but I'm sure she wouldn't mind... not. I'm not sure the GBS would be too keen to attend. I have the impression they like to maintain an aloofness from their fans. Perhaps it's because they've never posted here, unlike other artists I've seen who regularly contribute to their web site. Maybe, they are following the footsteps of their idol, Bob Dylan. I read recently that Dylan and Merle Haggard did a 30 date tour where Haggard didn't get to speak to Dylan once. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 294 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mingus, I saw Ed play the Marrickville festival in inner west Sydney in September 2002 and he was billed as a local resident. I have no knowledge of his whereabouts other than that and the fact that he lived in the inner west of Sydney when I also did in 1992. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 291 Registered: 03-2006 |
Cichli, Thought I'd try...thought maybe that if I asked, you wouldn't say no (like Morrissey). If there were to be a West coast GB conference, we could have it at my apartment, but if more than eight attended, someone would have to bring chairs. Actually, despite my joking, I think I like my idols to stay aloof - it helps keep up the mystique. I don't want to find out that Robert wrote "Dive for your Memory" about his toy poodle, etc... | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 109 Registered: 08-2004 |
Well, I'm sure wouldn't turn a regular Go-Betweens message board contributor away from my door. Hardin, I can't believe you have 291 posts and you've only been registered here since March!!! Do you write all you posts or do you franchise the Hardin Smith brand to other posters!  | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 257 Registered: 08-2004 |
That's a nice attitude Cichli but what if they outstay their welcome? Central Europeans should meet in a German farmhouse. Fans from S. England will make a pilgrimmage to the Ocean's Apart bar. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 297 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yeah Cichli, I'm like that artist, who was it? Jeff Koons? who paid other people to do his stuff and then affixed his signature... Actually, not to bore you with the details, I use a custom (and poorly) designed software app. in my job, that takes forever to run...so, I end up with some fairly big (5-10 minute) chunks of time to fill...so doing this "keeps me off the streets". | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 258 Registered: 08-2004 |
So Hardin, where did you fill time before you stumbled on this humble community? | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 298 Registered: 03-2006 |
I didn't. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 42 Registered: 06-2005 |
Pádraig, I guess it's not that important but I think the 2002 Marrickville billing was out of date or wishful thinking; Ed was definitely living in Brisbane then. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 320 Registered: 03-2005 |
Everybody seems to return to Brisbane . . . . Chris Bailey next? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 301 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's the cheaper house prices in Brisbane. Far cheaper than Sydney. | ||
| mingus Member Username: Mingus Post Number: 43 Registered: 06-2005 |
I reckon hell will freeze over before that happens! | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 97 Registered: 11-2004 |
Jerry, Where is the Oceans Apart Bar?...I will buy you a half! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 261 Registered: 08-2004 |
It's in Norwood SE25, I'll have a pint :-) |