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     Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 794 Registered: 04-2005 |
Leafing through Ian Johnston’s 1995 biography of ol’ Saint Nick (Cave) I was somewhat stunned to find out that our dear Mr Forster almost (briefly) became a Bad Seed in 1985. According to the book, Cave was struggling to put together a band for his first solo UK tour “with the lead guitarist slot still vacant, Cave and Harvey contacted their old friend Robert Forster from the Go-Betweens, who was eager to play and turned up for rehearsals, but on the fourth day was told by his booking agency that he could not back out of a short tour of Scandinavia” Eventually former Birthday Party man Rowland S Howard stepped into the breach, but was not too happy about the situation “’it was almost insulting that I was asked,’ says Howard. ‘They seemed to have asked everyone that was humanly possible to fit the bill, like Robert Forster. He was so unsuitable it’s absurd. I was told that Nick had to have a few drinks down the pub before he cold ask me because he was so embarrassed’” | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 272 Registered: 05-2005 |
I recall sneaking a read of that book in Hodges Figgis bookshop and finding that Rowland S Howard quote from the index. It tickled my funnybone at the time: .... "like Robert Forster. He was so unsuitable it’s absurd" .... hilarious imho! I think I can see where he was coming from in a tea and scone kind of way. |