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22 December 2006
The Queensland government have created a $20,000 annual music fellowship in memory of Grant McLennan. More information can be found in the Queensland government media statement.
20 December 2006
ABC's Dig TV currently have a 30 minute Grant McLennan/Go-Betweens tribute on their website.
The recent Go-Betweens tribute show can be heard via the tribute band leader David McCormack's website.
Noel Mengel's review of the tribute show is on his Courier-Mail web page.
5 December 2006
Photographs from the recent Go-Betweens tribute show are now on the Triple J website.
A review of the tribute show appears on the Rave magazine website.
Robert Forster's piece on Bob Dylan's album Time Out Of Mind appears in the current edition of Mojo magazine (issue dated January 2007).
29 November 2006
Thursday's (30th November) tribute concert to Grant McLennan and The Go-Betweens at The Tivoli, Brisbane, will be broadcast live on Triple J at 8pm EST. Triple J can be heard around the world via the Triple J website.
To see what time the show will be at your location, use The World Clock Time Zone Converter.
10 November 2006
There will be a concert tribute to Grant McLennan and the Go-Betweens at the Tivoli Theatre in Brisbane on 30th November. Musicians appearing at the show include Adele Pickvance and Glenn Thompson of the Go-Betweens. The show is organised by Triple J, who will be making tickets available to their listeners. More details are on the Triple J website.
Robert Forster's latest piece for The Monthly, Heroes (Just for One Day), concerns The Countdown Spectacular. It appears in the November issue.
8 November 2006
U2 have paid tribute to Grant McLennan at their recent Brisbane show. Reports can be found on The Age and NME websites.
30 October 2006
Robert Forster's short story The Coronation of Normie Rowe appears in the current issue of Meanjin magazine, published by the University of Melbourne. The magazine also features a piece on Grant McLennan, Sadness and Longing in Australian Music, written by Steve Kilbey of The Church, and Adrian Robinson's Poem For Robert Forster.
27 October 2006
Two more articles on Robert Forster's winning of the Pascall Prize:
The Australian
ABC Online
26 October 2006
Robert Forster has been named Pascall Critic of The Year for 2006. The Pascall Prize is a prestigious award which was established
in Australia in 1988 in memory of the writer Geraldine Pascall. For more information read the story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
23 October 2006
Jack Frost, the album released in 1990 by Jack Frost (Grant McLennan and Steve Kilbey), has been remastered and rereleased on CD by Karmic Hit in Australia. The CD includes three extra tracks over the original release: Persuasion, Bad For You and Jack's Dream. The CD also features new cover artwork by Steve Kilbey.
12 October 2006
Robert Forster's article on Bob Dylan, Modern Times and Times Before That, appears in the current edition (issue dated October 2006) of The Monthly magazine.
3 October 2006
Andrew Stafford's memoir on Grant McLennan, The Last Time I Saw Grant, first published in the current edition (edition 13, 2006) of The Griffith Review, published by Griffith University, is now fully available on their website. Thanks to Andrew Stafford and the Griffith Review for making this article available.
The second edition of Andrew Stafford's book Pig City was recently published by the University of Queensland Press.
26 September 2006
Glenn Thompson's band The Rainbows have now regrouped with a new line-up under the name Beachfield.
20 September 2006
The Go-Betweens have been nominated in this year's ARIA awards, in the Best Music DVD category, for their That Striped Sunlight Sound live DVD. This follows their victory with Oceans Apart in the Best Adult Contemporary Album category in the 2005 ARIA Awards.
Andrew Stafford's memoir on Grant McLennan, The Last Time I Saw Grant, appears in the current edition of The Griffith Review, published by Griffith University.
30 August 2006
Rubber Records have released Emptiness Is Our Business, an album by GB3. The album features one track, Actress On A Mattress, written and sung by Grant McLennan.
10 August 2006
A True Hipster: Robert Forster on Grant McLennan, from The Monthly, July 2006.
6 July 2006
Grant McLennan's family have issued a note to thank all of Grant's friends and fans for their support:
From The Monthly magazine:
Robert Forster has written a tribute to Grant McLennan in the July issue of The Monthly magazine,
reflecting on their lives as friends and working partners.
The issue was released on Wednesday 5 July and is available in most newsagencies and some bookshops in Australia through until the
end of the month. To purchase the magazine by mail order, please email enquiries@themonthly.com.au.
17 June 2006
There is a Go-Betweens special to be broadcast on ABC's Rage television show at 00:15 on the morning of Sunday 18th June. The show features a collection of Go-Betweens and Grant McLennan videos from throughout their careers.
8 June 2006
Grant McLennan articles appear in the current edition of Rolling Stone Australia magazine (issue dated July 2006) and in the June 2006 edition of Rolling Stone Germany magazine.
7 June 2006
A Grant McLennan obituary appears in the current edition of Word magazine (issue dated July 2006).
5 June 2006
Brisbane's deputy mayor is supporting a campaign to get a bridge named in honour of the Go-Betweens: 'Go Betweens' bridge proposal wins support (ABC)
and Stars lobby for Go-Betweens bridge (Courier-Mail)
There is a short obituary for Grant McLennan in the current edition of Q magazine (issue dated July 2006).
1 June 2006
A Grant McLennan obituary appears in the current edition of Uncut Magazine (issue dated July 2006).
30 May 2006
A Grant McLennan obituary appears in the current edition of Mojo Magazine (issue dated July 2006). In the same magazine, Robert Forster describes his favourite Beatles song.
26 May 2006
UK, The Scotsman: Grant McLennan
25 May 2006
USA, CNN: The man who fame forgot
USA, The New Yorker: The Great Between
24 May 2006
Some radio tributes available on-line:
Australia, Triple J: MIXTAPE: Grant McLennan tribute
UK, BBC 6 Music: Dream Ticket
includes Go-Betweens session from May 2005, about 40 minutes into the show broadcast on Tuesday 23rd May 2006
UK, BBC 6 Music: The Hub two tracks from the above session
And some more on-line articles:
USA, Rolling Stone: The Go-Betweens' McLennan Dies at 48
USA, Billboard: Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan Dies In Australia
UK, Mail On Sunday: Grant McLennan, 1958-2006
23 May 2006
Australia, Sydney Morning Herald: Dive for your memory
Austria, Der Standard: Grant McLennan ist tot
Germany, Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Mitten im größten Glück blieb sein Herz plötzlich stehen
UK, The Independent: Grant McLennan
UK, The Times: Grant McLennan
17 May 2006
Ireland, The Irish Times: Remembering a great song and its writer
14 May 2006
Australia, Parliament of New South Wales: Grant McLennan
Australia, Parliament of Australia: Mr Grant McLennan
Australia, Courier-Mail: Icon leaves on a high note
Australia, Courier-Mail: Perfect striped sunlight
Australia, Courier-Mail: Farewell to band founder
Australia, ABC: Family, friends farewell Go-Between McLennan
Australia, ninensm: Go-Between farewells 'generous' McLennan
Australia, ninensm: Senate remembers musician Grant McLennan
Australia, Sydney Morning Herald: Rockers go to church and send McLennan a lullaby
Australia, The Age: Lyricist painted evocative word pictures
Australia, The Age: Goodbye to a great
Australia, The Age: Funeral for Go-Betweens frontman
Australia, The Age: Music's glitterati say farewell to 'a generous and gentle soul'
Australia, The Australian: Farewell to a Go-Between now gone
Austria, ORF: Who said love was dead? - Grant McLennan 1958-2006
Austria, Die Presse: Go Betweens: Grant McLennan gestorben
Denmark, Politiken: The Go-Betweens-sangskriver død
Germany, Die Tageszeitung: Meister der Herzen - Zum Tod des großen australischen Songwriters Grant McLennan
UK, The Guardian: Grant McLennan
USA, New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/arts/music/09mclennan.html
USA, Village Voice: Grant McLennan, 1958–2006
Germany, Berliner Zeitung: Die Lüge hatte hier keinen Platz
Beggars Banquet have a free download of Fingers by Grant McLennan available on their website
11 May 2006
We will shortly have details of places where you can send donations, for those who wish to remember Grant in this way.
The Schonell Cinema at the University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane (Ph: 3377 2229,
Schonell.com) will be screening That Striped Sunlight Sound on Sunday at 8pm as a tribute to their friend Grant McLennan. Admission will be free.
An open letter from Lo-Max Records:
I am sorry to inform you that our dear friend, the legendary singer songwriter Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens, passed away this weekend. Thousands of tributes have been pouring in from all over the world, including obituaries in the Independent yesterday and The Times today. The Queensland Government Minister made a statement in the Australian Parliament yesterday in his honour. Grant died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack in his sleep on Saturday 6th May.
It was an honour to work with such a talented man whose songs influenced a generation of musicians such as U2, REM, Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian, Coldplay, The Wrens, Primal Scream and many more.
Grant was a softly spoken, polite and gentle man who loved literature, music and art. It is a tragedy that he has been taken away from us at such a young age and at the peak of his career. He will be missed by all of us here at LO-MAX.
My heartfelt condolences go out to all his family, friends and fans all over the world who knew and loved him like we did. In particular my thoughts and deepest sympathy go out to lifelong musical collaborator Robert Forster, band members Adele Pickvance and Glenn Thompson, his managers and label colleagues Bob Johnson, Bernard Galbally, Bernard MacMahon and Jonathan Turner.
Allison McGourty
www.lomaxrecords.com
10 May 2006
NME: Go-Betweens star hails 'magnificent' Grant McLennan tributes
The Times: Grant McLennan
Die Welt: Grant McLennan (1958-2006)
Der Tagesspiegel: Ein Klassiker
9 May 2006
Grant's funeral will take place at 1.30pm on Friday 12th May at St Johns Cathedral, Ann Street, Brisbane. The service in the cathedral will be open to the public.
We encourage you to remember Grant at this time, wherever you are in the world. Thank you.
8 May 2006
Reports and obituaries for Grant McLennan have appeared on the following websites:
The Courier-Mail: Band founder dead at 48
The Australian: Death brings Go-Betweens to sad end
The Australian: Writer fused lyrical rock with poetic landscapes
Sydney Morning Herald: Go-Betweens singer dies in sleep
Sydney Morning Herald: From the cane fields, songs of love and loss
Sydney Morning Herald: Go-Betweens singer was all set to celebrate
The Independent: Grant McLennan
BBC: Go-Betweens singer dies in sleep
NME: Go-betweens star Grant McLennan dies
NME: Tributes flood in for Go-Betweens star
ABC: Go-Betweens frontman McLennan dies
Billboard: Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan Dies In Australia
The Big Takeover: Unfinished Business: R.I.P. Grant McLennan
6 May 2006
Grant McLennan
On Saturday 6th May, legendary Australian singer songwriter Grant W McLennan died in his sleep at his home in Brisbane.
Click here for the full obituary.
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