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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2149 Registered: 05-2005 |
Back home in the Irish village I grew up in I went to the pharmacy the other day to get something for a cold. The pharmacist, whom I didn't realise knew me (he's not from the village), said he had read my recent interview with Robert in The Irish Times and that The Go-Betweens are his favourite ever band. We then had a good chat about them and other Australian bands. Has anyone else come across a Go-Betweens fan in unexpected circumstances? | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2129 Registered: 05-2005 |
No, but thats a great story Padraig. Didnt know you were back home, thought you might have went to Euro 2008, after a slow start its been pretty good? | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 13 Registered: 11-2007 |
At the end of 2006 I've been in western australia for holidays. One day I sat in a little cafe in perth. Being there for the second time enjoying a muffin and an espresso in a nice atmosphere I recognized familiar sounds. The next song was familiar, too but I did not know the songs. I wondered how it could be possible because I thought I knew almost everything of the GBs incl. the rarer records like far out corporation, jack frost and so on... I asked the manager about the music and it was one of grant's albums (and I didn't have every of his solo albums ;((. He was very happy meeting another go-bees-fan and he offered me to copy some of their music on my new mp3-player. I was happy and went there the other day for copying the music and having a chat and a coffee. He not only copied the music but as well gave me a 12"-copy of "Was There Anything I Could Do?" as a present. Wasn't it wonderful? It was at the tigertiger coffee bar and I think the guy is called brendan?! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1651 Registered: 03-2005 |
Both great stories! If I ever run into another Go Betweens acolyte in this vast social desert . . . . Padraig, maybe the pharmacist knew of you because you are one of the local lads who made good. You live in an exotic place and send news of it back home. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2150 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, I've been watching the football of course and enjoying it very much. Great to see it all in proper time (ie not in the middle of the night as it is in Aus). We (my daughter and I) were in Italy for a wedding. Florence was lovely, but it was all very tiring. Randy, thanks for that nice summation! I can take a compliment! | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 152 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was at the Renoir cinema in London, near Russell Square tube, to see a Romanian film called Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days (this was on a weekday not long ago) and an album of Bill Fay songs was being piped over the PA. I was astounded. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 316 Registered: 01-2007 |
My wife was working in gynaecology and one of the other Doctors there was a big GBs fan, obviously she was cool and well informed, other firends of mine who are big GBs fan are a Pathologist and one a Geriatrician. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2465 Registered: 05-2005 |
so Frank I take it the slower, nae more sedate GB' tunes would no doubt appeal to your geriatrician's audience!! | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 318 Registered: 01-2007 |
Funny but I always find Go-Betweens fans to be well read articulate and cultured (excluding myself in this) | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 319 Registered: 01-2007 |
The Pathologist ike "when People are Dead"! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2466 Registered: 05-2005 |
Frank just a quickie, is Gaviscon liquid more effective than tablet form, in your eyes? Cheers, Spence | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 465 Registered: 07-2006 |
i've met very few go-bs fans really. the last one was at an indie club, which is rather predictable i suppose. i was pretty impressed when they burst into lee rimick after i mentioned them though! | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 219 Registered: 02-2008 |
I am envious. I've never actually met a GBs fan in person, unless you count the very few people I've personally converted... | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1662 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ewan, that is because we live in the United States of Philistinia. Spence, Gaviscon liquid is very bad for your eyes. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1267 Registered: 10-2004 |
I met a few Go-Betweens fans about ~9 years ago when a former band of mine started getting gigs with other likeminded bands. The only problem was that a lot of these people loved Belle and Sebastian even more, so it almost kind of canceled out the fact that they liked the Go-Betweens. These bands wusually played twee indie pop while gleefully wearing their B&S worship on their sleeves. But, basically, the only context in which I've met people who happened to like the Go-Betweens was through playing music, so perhaps that doesn't even count? | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2468 Registered: 05-2005 |
In 1988, I had a small scratchy band called Steamtown. We played with many of the Indie bands of the time, and one band called The Laurels, wer real big GoBees fans. They wore it on their sleeves too. They were realy really cool, the singer Mark sounded like Grant, the bassist Trev looked like the singer from Imagination lee John, cheeky face n all, the guitarist John i think looked liek a cross between Stewart Copeland and Tom verlaine, very tall, lank long hair and he played a suf blue Jazzmaster, and sounded like Tom (we got on well as he thought I sounded like Malcolm Ross), and the drummer, can't remembr his name was like Billy Ficca. A really great much missed small time band, I think they used to cover sound of rain. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1269 Registered: 10-2004 |
Spence - did the Laurels put anything out? I'm wondering if I've heard them as the name sounds really familiar. Also, the Servants kinda sounded like the Go-Betweens, at least in their early melodic guitar-pop phase. The singer sounded uncannily like Robert Forster at times, and they must've been thrilled to have Amanda play violia on a few of their songs. I recall reading they made their love of the Go-Betweens public. | ||
| matthew Unregistered guest |
Didn't David Westlake sing with the Servants? I seem to remember buying his mini-LP on the strength of the GBs being his backing band on a Radio 1 John Peel session only to find various Triffids were his backing band on the LP, not a bad substitute I suppose. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2469 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff. Unfortunately no, like a lot of unsung bands, they went unoticed on vinyl. The Servants were very GB's yes, I remember seeing them a few times. The singer Westlake, i think his name was, had a very big head, not in the metaphorical sense, lietrally! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2152 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love that old country song "Gaviscon, oh Gaviscon", especially Glen Campbell's version. | ||
| Zola25 Unregistered guest |
I like Glen Campbell's one that starts, "I am the linesman at Notts County...." | ||
| Ewan Talisker McEwan Member Username: Ewan_mcewan Post Number: 228 Registered: 02-2008 |
Also lovely are "By the Time I Get to Brisbane" and the one that goes, "Like a drugstore cowboy..." |