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05/11/2006: "Vale Grant McLennan"
Jesu,
in times of Grief
it is better to Get It Out...
Personally,
I regret that My Love of the GoBees
wasn't enough!
that's selfish!
Dunno 'bout you
but they lifted me;
lifted me...
I worked at 6UVS-FM (now RTRfm)
and was well swept up in the early '80's indy-phoria.
The GoBees were part of that
but they got better
and
better!
I guess we all get to tell our GoBees stories now.
Last time I saw Grant & Robert
was at the Clarendon Hotel, Katoomba;
up in the Blue Mountains
with Brother B!
(perhaps he will bless us with his Lindy stories..?)
Just the two of them
and twenty of us
in a small room.
Magnificent.
Another great memory
was not so much seeing them support REM at the Concert Hall -
with Robert wearing a wedding dress -
but seeing Robert do it again
at The Shents the next night!
(I pause to offer Great Praise
to my beautiful brown girlfriend
for making all this happen... )
I pray that I'm not mixing this up
but they were touring Tallulah round about then ( February 1989),
and mixing up the unbridled joi of Spring Rain,
the magnificence of Head Full of Steam,
the suspense of The House that Jack Kerouac Built,
and the menace of Twin Layers of Lightning...
I always yelled for Karen as an encore -
but it never happened...
Lindy said that they'd just signed a deal with EMI
to re-release their entire catalogue -
with lots of extras...
I pray that the Abel Label singles (or the compilation EP)
see the light of day.
Home in the Rectory
I am Far Too Sad
to put on anything now;
Not even Becky can cheer me up...
lerevdr on Thu 11-May-2006 @ 02:13 e.s.t [permalink]
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On Saturday, May 13th, at 01:21 e.s.t, Brother B said:
Hmmm. Lindy stories. Just the one very simple tale, reprised a coupla times over the years:
Slightly scary blond woman scowling in the Gin section of the Robin Hood bottleshop...
Magnificent is indeed the word for Katoomba. The Lesbians thought so too.
And I didn't miss them supporting REM. I think I went with MrLee. It was a nice dress. I hope Robert had it washed - or at least aired and pressed - before the Shents show.
But the last time I saw the GoBees was a couple of months ago here in BCN. They played support for Teenage Fanclub. (We left after the first Fanclub song, and catching bit of what I think may have been the second song as we strolled down the stairs I felt vindicated in my belief that we'd already heard everything we needed to hear. Or indeed were going to hear. But I digress.) Robert was looking even more like MrLee's dad than last time. Neus said "Someone once told that man they liked his shirt so he's still wearing it now..." and something similar about his haircut. I think she was implying something similar about me. But again I digress. McLennan was just this quiet little guy at the side - but he had just as much of the good stuff as the other guy. A bit of a shame that the photo of him they used in El Periodico the other day was most unflattering - but not every Australian musician gets written up in the Barcelona press when they step on a rainbow.
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On Saturday, May 13th, at 16:31 e.s.t, Le Rev Dr said:
Ah, bless you, Brother B!
I should clarify that I was at the Concert Hall, thanks to the pretty brown girl with the perfect nose.
Then at The Shents,
and there was an Old Melbourne show as well - but I may be mixing things up. I do recall being in thrall to the mesmeric House that Jack Kerouac Built at that venue... but I don't recall a dress; washing/airing & pressing, I s'pose...
2SER 107.3 Real Radio http://www.2ser.com/ is now playing (and streaming) an episode of my favourite programme The Attic, presented by Michael Stranges. I am preserving it for posterity, old school stylee... Perhaps some kind Parishioner could stream & rip it?
(WOO! Twin Layers!)
Gotta get this out ASAP!
Bless Y'all!
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