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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9285 Registered: 05-2005 |
The article is behind a paywall, so I've posted it below. I've left in the howler mistake about The Go-Betweens. LINDY MORRISON (musician) A drummer with the seminal Brisbane band The Go-Betweens, Morrison attended Somerville during the 1960s and went on to study a Bachelor of Social Work at the University of Queensland. Her family was very interested in music and musical theatre, and the school had a music program, but Morrison attributed her interest in playing music to the time she was in a sharehouse. Then unknown musicians such as Stuart Matchett and Frank Millwood would drop around to rehearse in the music room and actors including Geoffrey Rush, Trevor Stuart and Billie Brown would rehearse Shakespeare or devise plays on an upturned table. By the late ‘70s, she was living in Petrie Terrace and playing in a predominantly female punk band called Zero, about the same time Robert Forster and Grant McLennan from The Go-Betweens were on the Brisbane music scene. Brisbane was still considered small town and musicians would all rehearse in the same rooms in the Valley. Eventually Morrison joined the Go-Betweens, a band which created nine albums and released 19 singles until they split up in 1989. After becoming a mother Morrison moved into community music, directing various shows with many communities around the country. She took an interest in copyright and contracts and began to teach, later gaining a Masters in Legal Studies from the University of New South Wales. In 2010, Brisbane City Council named the bridge linking West End and Milton after The Go-Betweens. “People may mock me, but having the bridge named after the band meant a lot to me,” she said. |