That Striped Sunlight Sound

Also at the weekend I picked up The Go-Betweens’ DVD That Striped Sunlight Sound. A live show filmed in their hometown of Brisbane last August, 3 months after I saw them at the Renfrew Ferry.

The Go-Betweens are a rare phenomenon in that they’re a band that actually got better after they reformed. The stuff they’ve released since 2000 sits easily alongside material from their 80s heyday.

More enjoyable for me though is the second part of the disc, an afternoon interview with Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. They talk of the various stages of the band’s career, song writing and touring while performing acoustic versions of benchmark songs. It’s interesting to listen to the rivalry of their writing partnership. Forster kicking himself when McLennan came to him with the now classic Cattle and Cane. “He did childhood! Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?”

It comes with a free CD of the concert.

Here’s a review of it from The Guardian.

The photograph is from the Renfrew Ferry show. The guy that took it couldn’t have been standing very far away from where I was.