| Author | Message | ||
     Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2005 |
Looking at the setlists for the shows in Europe, I'm really starting to dispair that songs like Mountains near Dellray, He lives my life and Part company are being elbowed out of the way by Make her day, Too much of one thing and Poison in the walls. Where too is Bachelor kisses, The Statue, the wrong road and Spirit of a Vampyre? I'm dragging rent a crowd to Bulli in July and we'd love to see some of the missing songs. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 36 Registered: 03-2005 |
I thought "The Statue" was being played in these shows. I agree "Make Her Day" has outworn its welcome. I'd love to hear "Part Company" and it is odd that "Bachelor Kisses" gets passed over. Bypassing "Mountains Near Dellray" is a definite mistake. That's the song I've been lately using to convert people to Robert Forster. It works like a charm. | ||
| Peter Collins Member Username: Tyroneshoelaces Post Number: 7 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've only ever heard Wrong Road once live. Should be played more. | ||
| AS Member Username: Labelguy Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2005 |
Part Company was played in Zurich. | ||
| AS Member Username: Labelguy Post Number: 3 Registered: 05-2005 |
and since Frankfurt "Darlinghurst Nights" is played accoustic, only R&G - still works, although I prefered the electric version with Grant playing the funky riff. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 20 Registered: 04-2005 |
From the posted setlists, it appears "Dive For Your Memory" is rarely played, which is a shame, as I think it might be RF's finest song. And "To Reach Me" was on some of the early setlists of this tour but seems to have dropped off. I'd like to hear it. Maybe it will return for the U.S. swing. I'd love to hear "Hammer the Hammer" too. | ||
| Sean Alvin Member Username: Hammjammin Post Number: 2 Registered: 05-2005 |
looks like cattle and cane has been absent recently as well. i will be so so disappointed if they don't play it when i see them. | ||
| Simone Dubberke Member Username: Sim Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 |
"He lives my live" was played at the hamburg show last sunday. with 5 encores it was the best go-betweens show i ever had the chance to see. everybody attending was excited. don't miss them! | ||
| Brook Crowley Member Username: 1_fan Post Number: 27 Registered: 02-2005 |
I would really, really love to hear the Go-Betweens sing "Don't Call me Gone". I don't know if they played this electric bluegrass song in concert, but they should do it with banjo and upright bass (Adele, I hear, plays the upright as well as electric bass) and one of the violinists from the string section should join in. Also, I think, "I Just Get Caught Out" (from "Talulah") and "Rock & Roll Friend" (an outtake from "Sixteen Lovers Lane") should be put in their repetroire too. CLASSICS! | ||
| kuba a Member Username: Kuba Post Number: 6 Registered: 05-2005 |
in: The House That Jack Kerouac Built, Slow Slow Music, Bachelor Kisses, Quiet Heart, Head Full Of Steam, Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea. out: German Farmhouse, Make Her Day, The Clock. | ||
| Mark Tuffield Member Username: Mark_t Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2005 |
Dare I say “Lee Remick” – just so I can jump up and down and sing along (badly) to the ba, ba, ba, bits. And most definitely “Mexican Postcard” any song with lines like “battleships firing down the line” and “bats circling round the tomb” is a must and I’d love to see if they could replicate the dreamy sound of the recording on a live stage. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 13 Registered: 12-2004 |
I'd love to hear Unkind & Unwise. I remember it was the opening song the first time I saw them live back in 1986. | ||
| Matt Ellis Member Username: Matt_ellis Post Number: 24 Registered: 11-2004 |
I totally agree Mark. Mexican Postcard is probably my favourite Go-bees song. I think it would sound different live (for one there is no Amanda Brown to do the joint lead vocals) I reckon it would sound great with Adele though. Possibly all the acousitc and electric guitar lines would be hard to re-create live too. Does anyone know if they have ever played this song live? Also - Love Is A Sign was played when I saw them in 2003 in London. It seems to have been dropped for a while now. I think its due a return at some point on this tour :-) | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 79 Registered: 10-2004 |
I'd love to hear them play Unkind & Unwise. That's always been one of my very favorite Go-Betweens songs. A friend of mine got to meet the band backstage back in 2000, when they were touring in support of TFORW. My friend suggested to Grant that they inlude Unkind & Unwise in their live sets. He said immediately Grant's eyes lit up, and Adele asked, "what song is that?" Grant started singing the verses, and Adele still didn't know what it was, but Grant seemed excited by the mere thought of the song (as if he just hadn't thought about it in a long, long time). I'd also really love to hear Head Full of Steam, 5 Words, Bow Down, Rare Breed, etc..., though I'm perfectly aware that's wishful thinking on my part. I hope they include Mountains Near Delray and Lavendar in their sets, as those are two of my favorite songs from OA. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 14 Registered: 05-2005 |
I love 'Unkind & unwise' also. It's drum pattern is very peculiar, like nothing I've ever heard anywhere before. Grant once described 'unkind and unwise' as the second in a trilogy of songs - the first was 'Cattle & cane' which is also somewhat quirky imho. I don't think Grant ever identified the third song in the supposed trilogy, but I often wondered if 'The Ghost in the Black Hat' was the one .... probably not. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 41 Registered: 03-2005 |
I'm very impressed that Grant could remember the words to "Unkind and Unwise" something like 16 or 17 years after writing it. I'd be delighted to hear that too, but I'll settle for "Rock n Roll Friend," "Apology Accepted," and "Part Company." I totally agree about "Mountains Near Delray." | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 16 Registered: 12-2004 |
I've always assumed the third song in the trilogy was Bye Bye Pride. The unusual drum pattern in Unkind & Unwise may be partly explained by its unusual time signature. Most modern songs are written in 4/4 time, but U&U is in something like 7/4 time, which I think must be difficult for a drummer to play. Cattle & Cane also has an unusual time signature. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 82 Registered: 08-2004 |
I don't believe that at all. Grant could have been joking. why only a trilogy? These things never add up to a quadrilogy. If it is true, then the link must be an autobiographical theme. | ||
| Sean Alvin Member Username: Hammjammin Post Number: 5 Registered: 05-2005 |
Hope they change up the set a little when they get to america. seems as if they've settled into the exact same set every night for the past 6 gigs or so, with slight alterations during the encores. No 'to reach me' or 'cattle and cane' or 'part company' anywhere to be found. 'unkind and unwise' would be great. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 27 Registered: 04-2005 |
I wonder why they've stopped doing "Cattle and Cane"? By all accounts, the version on this tour sounds great. Hope it makes it back into the set by Seattle. | ||
| Jacqueline Hope Member Username: Jack Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2005 |
I would die happy if I got to see "House Jack Kerouac Built" live, it is my favorite Go-Betweens song, it also happens to be the first one I ever heard. | ||
| Richard Member Username: Double_hipness Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 |
Definately Part Company for me, it was the first track I ever heard from the band. It was on the John Peel show many moons ago and I couldn't recall what it was called so I had to guess the title from the lyrics I could remember, I took a chance on the Metal And Shells import LP and have never looked back. I couldn't believe it when it was omitted from the 1978 - 1990 compilation and even more so that it isn't played live anymore. | ||
| david nichols Member Username: David Post Number: 61 Registered: 09-2004 |
I would like to hear 'Ask'. But slow. | ||
| Chloe Weil Member Username: Primaryism Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 |
Without a doubt, The Girls Have Moved. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 16 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'd say there's about zero chance of them playing that one. | ||
| julia motzko Member Username: Julia Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2005 |
"easy come easy go", acoustic version with Robert on the piano | ||
| nic oliver Member Username: Nico Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 |
River Of Money, real slow! | ||
| James Member Username: James Post Number: 22 Registered: 05-2005 |
I wouldn't mind hearing them play Grant's 'One Plus One' or 'Simone and Perry', or Robert's 'Crying Love'. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 52 Registered: 03-2005 |
All great choices, James. "River of Money" can finally enjoy renaissance for Grant's new alter ego M.C. Lennan. | ||
| wallace Member Username: Leebee Post Number: 1 Registered: 06-2005 |
River Of Money would be incredible! | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 15 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Go betweens on thursday night at Bulli played "He lives my Life" and "Mountains near Dellray". Thank you very much Go Betweens!!!!!!!! For the first encore I yelled out "Dellray" and Robert pointed to my table and began playing it! Magic!!!!!!!!! |