― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060512-grantmclennan.shtml
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
My Aussie relatives have never shown any interest in home-grown talent. Maybe for his birthday I'll buy my brother in law Simon "16LL."
My narcissistic reaction to the news (still sinking in) was that, as long as my own health holds up, every single musician I love and respect will pass in my lifetime. It's a sad, scary thought, incentive alone, I suppose, to find new bands and musicians to love and respect. Though few I imagine will be on par with what the music Grant made meant to me.
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
The Senate—
(a) notes:
(i) the loss suffered by the Australian music community and music lovers with the death on 6 May 2006, of Queensland born and bred songwriter and musician, Mr Grant McLennan,
(ii) the contribution made to music by Mr McLennan as a songwriter and performer over nearly three decades, which is highly respected and widely recognised as very influential,
(iii) that the song ‘Cattle and Cane’, written by Mr McLennan and performed by the Go-Betweens was named by the Australian Performing Rights Association as one of the ten greatest Australian songs, and
(iv) the significant inspiration that Mr McLennan and the Go-Betweens provided to musicians from Brisbane and beyond over many years; and
(b) conveys its sympathies to his mother, immediate family and past and present band members.
― QB, Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 13 May 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
the service was oka few too many messages from our sponsor, maybebut it was ok
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i had one of grants fave drinks a long island teawhich seemed to have 5 different white spirits in itand certainly knocked me aroundi met the moody and enigmatic ed kuepper(and i hugged him!!)what a gentlemen
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 May 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Sunday, 14 May 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://hemlocktavern.com/prog_guide.php?
― sheep sheet (serious sheet), Friday, 2 June 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I asked him to talk about Grant which he was more than happy to oblige. He talked about working with him and what type of person he was. It was really nice to talk to someone who worked and knew him. Steve is very poetic and speaks with bravado at times. He lightened up the conversation saying, "Why did Grant have to go? He was such a gentleman. Why couldn't it have been Liam Gallagher?"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 24 August 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 25 August 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 25 August 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
* Tribute show in Brisbane on Nov. 30
* First Jack Frost album has been remastered/reissued with extra tracks
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 2 April 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roy Kasten, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― whisperineddhurt, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roy Kasten, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 April 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
And now, four years.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn. I've currently no Go-Between or McLennan songs on my iPod.
One of my favorite ILM threads, this. Lots of good writing, fond memories.
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I've currently no Go-Between or McLennan songs on my iPod.Wha???
― Jazzbo, Thursday, 6 May 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Peter Milton Walsh (he of The Apartments) posted a rather stirring tribute to Grant today:http://rileyrecords.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-6th-grant-mclennan.html
His observations on The Go-Betweens are equally fascinating:What I liked most about them and the world of their songs, was its immaculate innocence. A childlike world, radiant with hope. Huge, huge hope. Daydream believers. In the howling chaos that seemed to be my life at the time, there was nobody like that. I’m not sure there ever had been.
― doug watson, Thursday, 6 May 2010 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
That's crazy, I broke out Before Hollywood on Thursday, and then the rest of the catalogue, first time I'd listened to them in ages. Was thinking about how sad it was to lose that talent, and I didn't even notice the significance of the date. His River of Money gets me more and more every time.
― verhexen, Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
My first thought when I saw this thread revived was that he wasn't dead anymore. :(
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 May 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Eternally missed.
― Mule, Monday, 6 May 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
will play "Dusty in Here."
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man, that'd bring real tears. It's a strange feeling having real emotions for someone you've never met.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 6 May 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
I write these words to his tune that he wrote on a full moonAnd a river ran, and a train ran, and a dream ran through everything that he did
― Mule, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:42 (nine years ago) link
oh dear
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 14:44 (nine years ago) link
10 years. Sigh.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0sgi5uL2w
― Mule, Friday, 6 May 2016 10:49 (eight years ago) link
Memory wastes.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 May 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
Bigger-than-usual one of these tonight: http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/whats-on/events/6-may-16-this-nights-for-you-a-grant-mclennan-tribute-show-bush-hall/
(The one where Robert turned up and played some songs a couple of years ago was all-time for me.)
― Tim, Friday, 6 May 2016 10:55 (eight years ago) link
I miss him, I miss this band. Going to be playing their stuff today.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
from Forster's Facebook page:
May 6, 2016. Ten years ago today Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens passed away. A sad anniversary to mark, but necessary in so many ways, not the least because he was a great singer-songwriter and a wonderful friend. I think of him often; he is not someone who has faded - remaining close to me as he always will be, in memory and music. We knew each other for just over thirty years - for seventeen of them we were in a band, for the remainder of the time the friendship was just as important and central to us. Grant and I did a lot of talking together. Pitching ideas, making plans, swapping enthusiasms we had, and laughing. We were a force together. The sting to this day shall be strong as he died in Brisbane, The Go-Betweens were a Brisbane band, and today I shall be out in the city and tonight will sleep in it. Thinking of Grant. Warm greetings to all who read this, and have Grant firmly in their lives too. Hold on. Fond Regards. Robert.
― tylerw, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:06 (eight years ago) link
Beautiful tribute
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 6 May 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
That tribute gig looks great. Can't believe it's been 10 years.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 6 May 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm afraid to wear my Grant McLennan t-shirt anymore because I don't want it to fade.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 May 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
Lovely piece here
https://medium.com/@RyanMaffei/gentlemanly-melancholy-7ff32d02763f#.8ssrq56xz
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
The best of Forser and McLennan's solo work.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
Is the book ever coming out in the US?
― Barkis Garvey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
Steve Kilbey's compiled and selling 3 hours of Jack Frost performance and interview footage as a download via his Facebook. $20 bucks. Grabbing it in the morning as I imagine it'll be perfect accompaniment to early Xmas Day wine drinking and vegetating.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 06:02 (five years ago) link
I love this strummy alubm.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
*album even