Robert Forster
Meet: We chat to the living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens and solo) about his renewed lease of creativity, the bands and the good old days, ahead of the release of his new album ‘Strawberries’.
Ahead of his new album ‘Strawberries’ due for release on 23 May 2025, I had a thoroughly entertaining chat via Zoom with living legend Robert Forster about the past, the present, creativity, the legacy of The Go-Betweens and his new Swedish band. But let’s get a couple of big questions out of the way. The …
News: What can ordinary be? Living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) feels guilt about what happened to the ‘Strawberries’ as new album is announced with the title track unveiled.
‘Strawberries’, the new single from the iconic The Go-Betweens songwriter Robert Forster, features his trademark insouciance and his witty wry delivery, augmented by his wife Karin Bäumler’s vocals. Pondering the moral and ethical ramifications of greedily consuming the last strawberry in the bowl, Forster’s tone is light and playful, cheeky and jaunty in this little …
Album Review: Robert Forster’s ‘The Candle And The Flame’ is an achingly beautiful paean to life and the passage of time.
The highly esteemed songwriter from the legendary The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster, probably needs no introduction – he is a national treasure. Forster has just released his eighth solo album ‘The Candle And The Flame’ and it is unsurprisingly a beautiful and stately release befitting his stature. The album is deeply imbued with a romantic blush …
Classic Compilation: Various Artists – I’m Your Fan
The compilation album consisting of multiple acts recording a variety of songs penned by a single artist by way of tribute resulted in a series of releases which can be generously considered ‘patchy’. For every Step Right Up, or A Testimonial Dinner, two examples which actually worked, there were a dozen more ham-fisted attempts at …
Robert Forster – Grant and I (Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens)
It wouldn’t be a surprise to learn that Grant and I took its title from the phrase that recurs most in the book. It describes perfectly what you get within. It’s certainly not a full account of the Go-Betweens as a group of people. They are there, but so frame-filling is Robert Forster’s account of …
DVD Review: Medium Cool (Masters of Cinema)
Turbulent times often lead to some of the most groundbreaking cinema. 1968 was possibly the most unstable year in post-war American history. The US were on the back foot in Vietnam, and with public anger at boiling point, President Lyndon Johnson resigned during the Primaries. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were both assassinated, the …