Go-Betweens-Interview, New Musical Express, 6. August 1988:
Describe to me the typical Go-Betweens fan?
Lindy: „German, male, between 20 and 26, earnest.“ Grant: „Female, heavily into Sylvia Plath, could have played hockey with the Australian Olympic Squad but gave it up. And called Mirabelle.“ John: „A young man who’s just been seriously jilted for the first time.“
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If the Go-Betweens were a film, what would it be?
John: „It’s A Wonderful Life“
Lindy: „Summer Holiday“
Grant: „We’d be that scene in ‘Love In The Afternoon’ where Audrey Hepburn’s running along the platform thinking Gary Cooper has gone forever and then this arm comes down and he sweeps her onto the train.“ Ahh! You big softies!
Lindy: „Well Hemingway said that people can only write properly when they’re in love…Mind you, he said that writers can only write when they’ve got syphilis too, so what does he know about anything!“
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