The Go-Betweens: divisions and pain run deep

By Andrew Stafford
Updated September 20 2017 - 9:08am, first published 8:59am

Scene: a tall, erect man, aged 60, is walking up a long gravel driveway. He is impeccably, incongruously dressed for the country surroundings: dark blue suit and tie, rose-pink shirt, dress shoes. It is the Go-Betweens' Robert Forster. He is carrying a guitar. An old radio voice-over asks him to describe the music he plays. "It's like running water off thin white strips of aluminium," he replies. Soundtrack: the first three notes of Cattle and Cane.

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