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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8242 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's screening at Sydney film festival five weeks from now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_678J-b p1w | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 423 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, thanks for that - it looks great. Many, many, many years ago I went to the opening of the Sydney Film Festival at the State Theatre (1988). Sadly I won't be there this year but this looks like a must-see film. I'd still marry Amanda Brown on the spot, though I'm not sure my wife would let me!! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1149 Registered: 04-2005 |
Yes Yes Yes ! That trailer looks great and I hope that the film reflects the originality of the band. Simon, I'm before you in the queue. Pistols at dawn ? | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 424 Registered: 08-2005 |
Andrew, I have pacifist tendencies. How about scissors, paper, stone?! Or Texas hold'em poker? Seriously, you have to love the Go-Betweens! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8245 Registered: 05-2005 |
And I want to marry Robert, but same-sex marriage is the love that dare not speak its name in this damn country. And Robert's already married. And neither of us are gay. But otherwise, yes, definitely. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 427 Registered: 08-2005 |
Glad I've raised the tone of conversation here! Pádraig, those may be slight impediments to the Forster/Collins nuptials, but surely Aussies are known for their positive attitude to life: "She'll be right, mate!" | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 428 Registered: 08-2005 |
Glad I've raised the tone of conversation here! Pádraig, those may be slight impediments to the Forster/Collins nuptials, but surely Aussies are known for their positive attitude to life: "She'll be right, mate!" | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1367 Registered: 10-2006 |
I too could envision a settled homelife with Robert, though I think the relationship would inevitably founder through my attempts to foist my own lyrics on to his tunes. "Here's a good one...go on, just try it..." "I'm going out for a coffee. I may be some time." Door slams. Sigh. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8248 Registered: 05-2005 |
I just laughed out loud at that scenario, Stuart. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3760 Registered: 03-2005 |
This does look very exciting. Padraig you might remember that either Robert or Grant once described their friendship as "platonic homosexuality" so your most probable obstacle is Robert's troth to the memory. "Mostly, I miss my friend." | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1150 Registered: 04-2005 |
After seeing a RF performance in Glasgow, a friend of mine said "that is the campest hetrosexual I've ever seen" Did anyone get in touch with the film-makers ? I sent a message with some info, but never even got a reply so didn't take it any further... | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 431 Registered: 08-2005 |
I sent an email with some lo-res pics. They got back to me and said they'd be interested in seeing more. Sadly we're having building work done here so I've no idea where the original pics/negs are. I've linked to these before, but I love the B&W pics from Warwick Uni in the 1980s, and I think they're worth a look. I was well into my photography in the 80s. Looks like you'll have to paste the link rather than click on it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/23678069@N04/ | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 405 Registered: 05-2005 |
Same with me. All my slides are somewhere, but where? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 1152 Registered: 04-2005 |
Those are great photos from the Warwick gig Simon. Cheers ! | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hear, hear. Those Warwick pics deffo worth a look. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3762 Registered: 03-2005 |
I particularly love the whole-band overhead shot Simon. At that point they were visually a wonderfully well-balanced band. You had the two fancy Roberts, the ordinary-Joe Grant, the Amazon keeping complicated time and the bird playing orchestral instruments. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 433 Registered: 08-2005 |
"The bird playing orchestral instruments"!? Are you allowed to say that in these enlightened times...! And I like the somewhat camp-looking blond-haired Robert Forster, and if I remember rightly he's wearing a particularly fine pair of red trousers. |