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.

The Go-Betweens and The Irish Writers

Collaboration between An Imaginal Space and Arun Kendall (The Hadron Colliders).

Music, instruments, production and mixing: Spook (An Imaginal Space)
www.animaginalspace.com

Vocals and lyrics: Arun Kendall (The Hadron Colliders)
www.thehadroncolliders.com
Lyrics:

I saw the light I saw the time
I saw the wasted days go by
I saw the sawdust on the floor
I saw the feelings left behind
He gave you everything you want
I gave you everything you need
But it doesn’t mean a thing, anything at all 

Spring comes
Spring fades
And every winter I am waiting
Spring comes
Spring fades
And all I want is to remember

I read the book I knew the end
He changed the story so he’d win
I froze this moment for a life
And kept it hidden out of sight
He gave you everything you want
I gave you everything you need
But it doesn’t mean a thing, anything at all

Spring comes
Spring fades
And every winter I am waiting
Spring comes
Spring fades
And all I want is to remember


Spring (An Imaginal Space Ft The Hadron Colliders)

Future Is Now is paradoxically an anthemic and delightfully hooky warning about the possibly grim future we may all be marching toward, and the song implores us to think about the long-term consequences of our own individual actions before they collectively destroy us. Despite this warning, however, a silver lining of hope that we can still turn things around emerges from the melody.

Future Is Now (Radio Edit)

Moving to Valdivia

Creature of Habit

This song started as a challenge: I found two metal cups in a giveaway box on my street, sampled them and turned them into an instrument I could play. I challenged myself to write a rock song using the sound of the bells instead of the guitar.

Bellwether

written, recorded, and produced by Adam Hachey
vocals by Jacky Muñoz
bass guitar by Harshith D'mello

lyrics:

someone told me
bodies floated up to shore
and it's something
but nothing i haven't heard before.
i'm asked who i am what i do
for fun.
i plug myself in...

and i go to plano
where i left another story behind.
then i drift to oslo
where i keep another story in mind.
another story in mind.
another story in mind.

every morning,
warnings, sounded off alarms.
here are fevered
leaders leeching off our arms.
and the comments page scolls on and on and on.
come on.
i plug myself in...

and i drift to plano.
did i leave some other story behind.
then to santiago
where i keep another story in mind.
another story in mind.
another story in mind.

Age of Convictions

Another Story

written, recorded, and produced by Adam Hachey
vocals by Jacky Muñoz
bass guitar by Harshith D'mello

lyrics:

please don't play that song.
recognize that
it is surfacing old wounds
i know i got past.

please don't play that song.
understand that
it incites memories so bad
and keeps them intact.

please don't play that song.
it's a shame that
it brings suddenly loose ends
i have to pick at.

please don't play that song.
i regret that
i carried it along so far,
now push it way back.

Skip

All music written and performed by the Underground Lovers

drums : richard andrew 
bass, guitar : maurice argiro
vocals, guitar and keyboard : philippa nihill 
vocals, guitar, keyboard : vincent giarrusso  
guitar, vocals : glenn bennie

Produced by Wayne Connolly at Paradise Recording Studios in Spring 1993.

These are the original recordings taken at Paradise Recording Studios before the album was re-worked with another Producer at another studio.

Underground Lovers - Bootleg Studio Mixes - 05. Bended

Irrational

Distance

The Hadron Colliders are a group of Sydney musicians playing original indie/alternative rock.