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     Morten Olesen Member Username: Moo Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hi, I'm a Danish backpacker, who just arrived in Brisbane. I would love to pay Grant - one of my favourite artists - the final respects. Is his burrial site known by the public or are there any other areas in the city, made to tribute Grant? | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 158 Registered: 11-2004 |
As far as I know, Grant was cremated, so the best way you could pay tribute to him in Brisbane would be to sit at the bar at his favourite drinking spot, Ric's. www.ricsbar.com.au You could always visit the houses and flats Grant used to live in during the late 70s if you were really keen, or perhaps check out the Bellavista Terrace street sign? I guess there's enough bits and pieces around Brisbane to do a Go-Betweens tour of the city. ..just a thought. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 1 Registered: 09-2006 |
Hi Morten, I'm Wolfgang from Switzerland and I was on your tour in July - the only information I got was in Rocking Horse Records where they told me too that Grant was "probably" cremated. At the information desk at St. John's Cathedral they had no idea - they didn't even have a record that there was funeral service in their own church just some weeks ago ...! At least I bought a cup there at the shop for the benefits of the renovation ... I ended up on a barstool throne at Ric's - and round and round, up and down through Spring Hill, The Valley, Highgate Hill, wherever you may pick up the bits and pieces Donat mentioned. With a little help from my ipod and Grant's melodies that's a perfect way to keep Brisbane in your mind (and Grant may rest in peace – think of poor Jim Morrison in his Beaujolais-stained "party-tomb" at Pčre Lachaise...). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 595 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wolfgang, that sounds like a great pilgrimage. Welcome to the board. I think of Jim Morrison as little as possible. | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 2 Registered: 09-2006 |
Thanx for the warm welcome Randy and sorry for mentioning the M-Word (hopefully not a false start at the board?!?!)- I've been a spy in your house for months and maybe the Leichhardt of McLennish exploration, so I could feel with Morten who maybe - like naive me - expected to find a guitarpicking beerfuelled crowd around a huge monument for one of Australias greatest sons. Instead you have to say cheers from Ric's barstool - it's a little bit disappointing first when you're on that pilgrimage, but the gothic way is not the way to pay tributes to Grant. Better for lizards we don't like to think of very often... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 606 Registered: 05-2005 |
Welcome Wolfgang. I hope you had a taste of Grant's favourite tipple - a Long Island Iced Tea - while at Rics? I had a couple there after the funeral. They really are exceptional Long Islands. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 596 Registered: 03-2005 |
You had a couple, Padraig? Could you remember where your hotel was? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 609 Registered: 05-2005 |
No kidding Randy, I actually couldn't find my hotel that night. But I had at least a dozen strong Australian beers after the Long Islands. I ended up getting a cab to the hotel. I was very close, but just could not find it! | ||
| Wolfgang Steinhardt Member Username: Berbatov Post Number: 3 Registered: 09-2006 |
No Pádraig, I missed the opportunity! I just had a couple of strong Belgian beers at Cafe Brussels (with my Hotel just around the corner:-)after a couple of strong Australian beers at Ric's. But I lost my hotel the next night in Sydney after the socceroos defeat against Italy... | ||
| Matthias Treml Member Username: Matthias Post Number: 144 Registered: 05-2005 |
Donat, Be our tour guide. If one was travelling to OZ and wanted to go on a go-betweens pilgrimage, where would one go? Please the three-day package! BTW, I went to Jim's party tomb in 1992 as I was staying in the red light district (gun shots at night, barred windows, and crying) near his resting place. It was really sad that luminaries (Chopin I think) from hundreds of years ago had their own monuments defaced with an arrow to show where Jim's tomb was. It was such a hike, I had to pee at the cemetery bathroom and the walls were covered with quotes like Jim Lives. I believe I scrawled, "Get a life" If I didn't I was thinking it. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 649 Registered: 04-2005 |
Wouldn't have been more in the spirit of things if you'd peed on Morrison's tombstone rather than in the bathroom? Plus it would be an apt commentary on his artistic "legacy." | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 119 Registered: 04-2005 |
Pčre Lachaise: and as for all those bloody Morrisey fans + their lipstick kisses on Oscar Wilde's (Epstein designed) grave...ignorant gits! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 603 Registered: 03-2005 |
Padraig, you are made of much sterner stuff than I. With that input I would have been looking longingly at the gutters. Until I just fell down into one. Brisbane is really hilly, correct? Maybe it's easy to lose your bearings there anyway. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 616 Registered: 05-2005 |
It is very hilly, but what makes it hard to find your way round is the river which meanders around the city. My hotel was "on the river" but that didn't help when I was drunk. Actually, I had trouble finding it earlier when sober too! | ||
| Donat Member Username: Donat Post Number: 165 Registered: 11-2004 |
Matthias, I'll come up with a Go-Betweens tour of Brisbane - there will be some ridiculous places, but such is Brisbane sometimes. Sadly, many places no longer exist or have since been demolished. If you want to check out places like where Grant used to work painting in animated cells or the house where Grant and Robert used to live in and recorded the Teeki Tapes in '79, they're still around. I'll give it some thought over the weekend and get back to you. | ||
| Michael Leach Member Username: Mike_l Post Number: 25 Registered: 05-2005 |
well, Im an ex-Brisbane lad, so here's a starter for you visitors. (Since I was just in Copenhagen and everyone was very friendly, Im happy to!) Get the City cat ferry from the city and "ride your river under the bridge" to the final stop - the University of Queensland. This is where Robert and Grant met. Grant lived in one of the residential colleges when an undergrad (they're laid out further along the river once youre on the campus). Baroona hall, the site of their first gigs is (from memory) on Caxton St, off Petrie Terrace, heading towards Paddington. Im 10 years younger than the Gobys, so Im afraid I dont know much more than that! I believe they lived in Toowong later as undergrads - in which case go to the RE pub (where they almost certainly would have drunk a few - we all did at UQ!) and also a very fine old pub further down the road on Coronation drive (whose name eludes me - been in Melbourne five years!). You wont miss it - right on the river. For further info, ask a Queen St sex thing. | ||
| Ian Darby Member Username: Jan Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 |
I recently checked the Brisbane city council website - and it has Grant's grave at Mt Gravatt cemetery - in the suburbs of Brisbane near a campus of Griffith University. I am planning on dropping in next time I'm up in Brisbane and paying my respects. I guess another good spot to go would be Cairns for a walk down Shield St and Sheridan St. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 719 Registered: 05-2005 |
Welcome Ian! | ||
| lindy morrison Member Username: Lindymorrison Post Number: 101 Registered: 09-2004 |
There are two beautiful unusual apartment buildings on or near Petrie Tce. Rob and I lived directly on the Terrace on the second floor in our block and Grant lived behind in a small lane, take a left off Petrie Tce directly after our block as you walk up from the Valley, the left takes you towards the city, and then take first right. This is on foot. No cars allowed. His apartment was on the ground floor. An old wooden stairwell went up to his place on the left of the block. The buildings are still sitting there. You can see the photos of these places in the cover of the SMAL album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 748 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good to have you back Lindy. I note you returned on post no 101! | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 |
...I have just read Andrew Staffords article ..'The last time I saw Grant'....just returned 'Fireboy,16ll and OA' to the CD drive along with Amanda's 'incognita' and like an angel from another time Lindy comes in..Hope you are well... I am getting better with all this... Charles from 'down by the water'..Mentone |