| Author | Message | ||
     Allan Kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 27 Registered: 04-2006 |
New videos are always being posted it seems. Here is a great clip of the band doing "Cut It Out" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXTj3VoPi Qo Feel free to add more YouTube links if & when they are found. | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 186 Registered: 11-2007 |
Found 2 videos from Far Out Corporation with Grant and Adele - didn't know they made release videos: good one's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GffylLBbK 84&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l89xplVr0 4k&feature=related | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 234 Registered: 05-2005 |
Here's a new one .... Roskilde 1987 Clarke sisters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537nt5rbX CE | ||
| Allan Kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 28 Registered: 04-2006 |
Fantastic, that Roskilde footage is amazing! here is the Video for Surfing Magazines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJYP_nfM mg some beautiful footage of Surfers from the 70s. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 144 Registered: 06-2005 |
A stylish "Twin Layers Of Lightening"..check out the airplane car! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKPSKsmCK Do | ||
| Allan Kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 29 Registered: 04-2006 |
Here is Robert doing "i love myself and i always have": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfTtwBxn0 Ig | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 613 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes that Roskilde footage is wonderful : Robert in full 'Blake Carrington' hair period. All we need now is the whole gig... | ||
| Allan Kingdom Member Username: Allan_kingdom Post Number: 30 Registered: 04-2006 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXFiBLhi gM The Go-Betweens perform on Australian TV show "Hey Hey It's Saturday" broadcast on 24th Sept. 1988 Any ideas what guitar Robert is playing? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1557 Registered: 08-2006 |
While I recognize they're playing to a canned track, I had to laugh no one's playing bass in this clip. Very Go-Betweens. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 240 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nice to see 'new' footage. The guitar, I think it's a Maton Fyrbyrd 6 String Electric but I could be wrong. | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 69 Registered: 05-2005 |
While it's great to see old/new footage of the band from this era, the clip is a real eye-opener in terms of the direction in which the Go-Betweens (had they stayed together) were headed in 1988/89. It must have been galling for Robert to find himself pushed out to the fringes as Grant & Amanda's Sonny & Cher routine was deemed, in some quarters, to be the way forward. Of course, Amanda's contribution to the band's legacy is undeniable (Right Here, Jack Kerouac & Bye,Bye Pride, The Clarke Sisters, Streets of Your Town etc.) yet I wonder how much the Forster/McLennan dynamic might have suffered as a result of record-company pressure to push Amanda more to the front. While there would have been a natural temptation to accommodate Amanda when writing and arranging songs (particularly in Grant's case), some attempts to re-work older material to include a violin were less than inspired - 'Part Company' & 'This Girl, Black Girl' being cases in point. The dreadful 'Running the Risk of Losing You' may, or may not, provide a glimpse into a future that never was. The decision to demo songs for what became 16 Lovers Lane before presenting them to the band could have been a result of (possibly) Robert - The Strategist - aiming to shake off a tendency for writing songs with the violin or oboe in mind and restoring the status quo, as it were, within the group. Presumably, 'The Botany Sessions' came about for the same reason. The planned Forster/McLennan acoustic album - sans other Go-Betweens as per David Nicholls' book - was probably a last-ditch attempt to get back to basics. The rest, as they say .... Anyway, thanks for the link! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2614 Registered: 03-2005 |
Interesting ideas, Pat. I've never objected to the Amanda-era version of "This Girl, Black Girl" but, yes, if Amanda sawed away on every song it would get a little old. She also played guitar though, didn't she? And of course the oboe. I know one infamous critic dubbed Robert the "lesser half" of the Go Betweens but I emphatically disagree. Robert had the more distinctive voice, the more striking looks, the more up-front stage persona and generally wrote the more uniquely Go Betweens-ish songs after about 1986 or so. I don't think there was any danger of Robert being pushed out to the fringes. "Running the Risk of Losing You" is a Robert song, no? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2105 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thinking back to the 1986-89 period, one could almost say the oboe was at it's highpoint in pop music. Not only the Gob's with Amanda, but we had The Dream Academy single "Life In A Northern Town" that hit really big in 1986. | ||
| Shane Greentree Member Username: Realinspectorshane Post Number: 82 Registered: 03-2007 |
Wow... seeing the Go-Betweens on Hey Hey Its Saturday is surreal, especially with that not particularly convincing miming. I only hope they fled the studio before learning out what the Great Australian Joke for the week was. ;) | ||
| Svein Inge Saether Member Username: Springrain Post Number: 55 Registered: 08-2006 |
I like these! The Circle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0rlavyz8 7Q&feature=related Justice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuM2y8I8c BY&feature=related Spring Rain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHrMMoj7Y KI&feature=related Born To a Family: http://www.youtube.com/user/peterdaicosi sgod#p/u/13/FYHoubskpic I Love Myself and I Always Will: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0xvOSjLa D4&feature=related | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 149 Registered: 06-2005 |
No Video just the audio of a loose as a goose version of "Hurricane" from a Barcelona show in 1989. I knew that they played this cover but have never heard it as I've only a few of their live bootlegs, it's pretty much as I'd imagined it might be, driven along with gusto by Amanda. I'd love to have seen this line up live but only managed to see them from the reformed shows in Dublin from 97 onwards. I say "only", it was a dream to see them at all! especially the mean fiddler ones..magic in the room. I guess if this line up were ever going to play a Dylan cover this song is well suited. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 150 Registered: 06-2005 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMMZcAK_ 4Q eh, the link would be useful! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2718 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wow, that was terrific. Thanks, Peter! | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 151 Registered: 06-2005 |
You're welcome Randy, it's from Donat's page, I'm pretty sure I've seen him post here occasionally? He has a little Apartments treat on there for you!..... http://www.youtube.com/user/uddichschmud dich#p/u/46/v2FZf5QwiVU | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 152 Registered: 06-2005 |
Bye Bye Pride from 1988....... http://christophebasterra.tumblr.com/pos t/8991648335/gobetweens | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2251 Registered: 01-2005 |
Peter, I would say it was filmed in 1987 as Robert Vickers is playing bass. | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 297 Registered: 11-2004 |
Yes that's me, Peter. Cleopatra Wong, anyone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sskl9Y7aB CE | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 160 Registered: 06-2005 |
Robert on stage with The Panics doing "Finding You".... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhkzZWKdD Ew&feature=related | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 280 Registered: 11-2007 |
Here is a wonderful old Go-Betweens promo video. I love it!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krkjvV6I2 W0 The Go-Betweens - Your Turn My Turn (1981) | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 123 Registered: 10-2005 |
Lovely, I think! | ||
| Matthew Bradbury Member Username: Bradders Post Number: 18 Registered: 09-2005 |
David Westlake doing Casanova's Last Words?..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvUdlGKG lA | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 287 Registered: 11-2007 |
no video, but a wonderful live recording from Wellington in 1985! http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu ery=go%20betweens%20cricketers&sm=3 | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 291 Registered: 06-2005 |
I was searching for the chords to one of my favourite Grant tunes when I found something I hadn't seen before, could be the few bottles of Porterhouse Oyster Stout but this is wonderful: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qin-FeyaM5 w | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 307 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw Robert Forster yesterday (Saturday) and he was RAGING. Anyone know what's up?! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1041 Registered: 04-2005 |
RAGING as in angry ? Or as in Australian RAGING ? http://www.slang-dictionary.org/Australi an-Slang/Raging | ||
| Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 142 Registered: 10-2005 |
Peter Ward: That clip of Easy Come Easy Go was wonderful. A small duo with Phil Kakulas of The Blackeyed Susans (here on a sabbatical to work with G W, I think). The few released songs (b-sides) and this live clip are superior to the album versions on Watershed. | ||
| Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 142 Registered: 09-2004 |
Here is a link to the videos that Robert played while hosting Rage last weekend: http://www.abc.net.au/rage/archive/s4356 502.htm Here is a link to a clip from the show where Robert talks about how much he loves the song "My Only Friend" by Bad / Dreems: http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/465068/the-go -betweens-robert-forster-is-officially-b addreems-biggest-fan.htm | ||
| Andreas Severins Member Username: Andreas_severins Post Number: 317 Registered: 11-2007 |
Thx Austin, Robert has been raging before with Grant on his couch  Look and enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5n0LCE 8O8 | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 358 Registered: 06-2005 |
Don't think I have seen this posted here before, it's a one hour show from June 15 1986, at Dolce Vita, Lausanne, Switzerland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rn3Nk-B OPg | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4066 Registered: 03-2005 |
Having a Rave-Up with the Go-Betweens! That is a sensational video, Peter. Thank you! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1273 Registered: 04-2005 |
Brilliant Peter! Amazing that videos like that are still surfacing, all these years later. Robert's hair is astounding. Floppy. Marked in the left-hand corner "Les archives de la ville de Lausanne". For some reason I love the idea that the town council has the tape filed away somewhere in a dusty store-room. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1275 Registered: 04-2005 |
"Draining the Pool" is wonderful. I saw them in Melbourne 2 or 3 months before and I remember that song with Robert wandering around in the audience. And conducting Amanda's violin playing. Ragged as hell, but Robert's moves are something to behold. Not sure that Lindy looks that impressed ! |