Listen to The Go-Betweens & The Irish Writers

Check out documentary maker Ken Sweeney's excellent 50-minute podcast on The Go-Betweens below. 

Here's the scoop...

Australian group The Go-Betweens founding members Robert Forster and bandmate, the late Grant McLennan have been hailed as ‘the Lennon & McCartney of indie’

Their music inspiring bands from Franz Ferdinand to Teenage Fanclub and a favourite of music journalists.

But what has never been discussed before- is how Irish writers like James Joyce – whose work Grant and Robert studied in Queensland University – inspired The Go-Betweens to write about their own country, Australia in classic songs like Cattle and Cane.

Life long Go-Betweens fan and documentary maker Ken Sweeney, (RTE radio docs ‘REM Out Of Athens’ and ‘In Search Of The Blue Nile’) asked Robert Forster to join him at Beacon Studios in Dublin to tell their story and play some of the Go-Betweens classic songs on acoustic guitar. But the 50 minute special also features, an unreleased interview Ken did with Grant McLennan in August 2000, prior to his death in May 2006. Listen via Mixcloud right here or alternately, via Soundcloud right here.