Saturday, April 19, 2014

David Malouf and the Go-Betweens: shining a light on Brisbane

Nikki Lusk chooses apt soundtracks for classic Australian literature. Here she pairs David Malouf's Johnno with the Go-Betweens' 16 Lovers Lane


     Friday 18 April 2014  
Go-Between Bridge in Brisbane
An aerial image of Go-Between Bridge in Brisbane. Photograph: Brisbane City Council
The influence of your home town, the place in which you while away those formative years of adolescence and early adulthood, can be hard to shake later in life. The particular angle at which sunlight strikes that town; the layout of its streets; its political, social and cultural landscape: these qualities affect your view of the world and the place of your home town within it. For David Malouf and the Go-Betweens, their shared home town of Brisbane becomes a character in their creative output, seen most obviously in Malouf’s first novel, Johnno, and also lurking on the Go-Betweens’ sixth album, 16 Lovers Lane

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