I was listening through to the Bloomsday demos at the weekend. The group was, myself - guitars, Chris Thomson - words, voice and guitars and Stephen Irvine - drums. Mark Bedford of Madness occasionally played bass and Douglas Muirden occasionally played keys. We signed to Island and released one album called Fortuny but as is sometimes the case I think the demos were better. So I've just posted 5 of them on the DOWNLOADS page.
Chris and I often talk about another collaboration and we are at it again so, you never know.

I just downloaded Robert Forster's song Pandanus for his upcoming album The Evangelist. It's available as a digital download from his recording company site. The album just got a 5 star review in Uncut magazine in the UK. It's out end of April. Here's the link for the download, http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=13323 and here's a link to RF's Evangelist page on his site, http://www.robertforster.net/rfevangelist.html. This is Robert's first post Go-Betweens release and the song is really good.

I toured with Robert, Robert Vickers and Grant McLennan (the other Go-Betweens on the bus) a few years back. Robert Vickers and I were playing together in Lloyd Cole's backing group and Robert Forster and Grant McLennan were opening as an acoustic duo. I have many great memories from that outing and news of Grant's passing in 2006 was shocking and saddening. I'll always remember his warmth as a person and his love of life, literature and songs. A great songwriter with friends all over the world. He is very fondly remembered.

Here I offer a very stripped down version of Cattle and Cane.