Robert Forster
Arts & Letters
Wave of Song: Jane Birkin’s world tour, 'Jane Birkin Sings Serge Gainsbourg'
Robert Forster
She speaks in English between songs and sings in French, pleasing the two largest nationalities of her public. Her English retains traces...
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Arts & Letters
Thirty Words: The Dirty Three’s 'Toward the Low Sun'
Robert Forster
Occasionally, just by looking at the song titles on a record sleeve, you can tell an album is going to be great. There is a rightness to...
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Arts & Letters
Treasure in the Attic: The golden age of singer–songwriters
Robert Forster
As far as romantic professions go, it’s up there with lighthouse-keeping, lion-taming or jobbing as a private detective in Los Angeles in...
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Robert Forster
Some years ago I was in the cluttered study of a friend who works as a music journalist and radio broadcaster in Munich. The walls were...
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Music, Arts & Letters
Out of the Bay: Girls’s 'Father, Son, Holy Ghost'
Robert Forster
Girls are a two-piece band out of San Francisco who write and sing songs about loneliness, heartbreak, the fuzzy disconnect around rock’n’...
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Masterpieces, Arts & Letters
Popular Music Masterpiece: Sarah Blasko - 'As Day Follows Night', 2009
Robert Forster
Bookended by two wispy Disney-esque ballads, As Day Follows Night has as its body, and certainly its heart, ten beautiful songs. Their...
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Arts & Letters
Maybe Baby: 'Rave On Buddy Holly'
Robert Forster
Perhaps it could only happen to a white American boy writing songs and recording music during the first decade of rock ’n’ roll and at a...
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Arts & Letters
Last Words: Mick Harvey’s ‘Sketches from the Book of the Dead’
Robert Forster
Imagine this: Mick Harvey is a 52-year-old new artist and Sketches from the Book of the Dead is his debut album. He hasn’t been in bands or...
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Music
To the Heart: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu’s 'Rrakala'
Robert Forster
Elcho Island is 560 kilometres from Darwin, off the north-east Arnhem Land coast. A strong musical community there has produced members of...
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Music, Arts & Letters
Scream: The Glory and the Madness of being a ‘60s and ‘70s Australian Pop Singer
Robert Forster
It begins in Brisbane in the late ’60s, when I was 11 and 12 years old. The Saturday afternoons were never-ending and on some of them,...
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