‘Cathal Coughlan was an inspiration’: Robert Forster on The Go-Betweens’ Irish spirit
Australian songwriter on his friendship with Microdisney, overcoming Grant McLennan’s death, and why superstardom doesn’t appeal
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Robert Forster: The Candle and the Flame – An inspirational blend of literary folk pop
The former Go-Between is on fine form with eighth solo album
Film-maker Jim Cummings: The Hollywood that built Harvey Weinstein is still there
Cummings’s breakthrough style he calls ‘backyard Pixar’ is shaking up the film industry
Science advice network needed to inform government, RIA says
Network could advise government on viruses, climate change and water supply issues
Robert Forster: Danger in the Past review – An uneven solo start
The songs aren’t quite there yet on the Go-Betweens guy’s 1990 solo debut
The week’s best rock and pop gigs: From The Darkness to Björk
Other highlights include Go-Betweens’ Robert Forster, Snow Patrol and Other Voices
El Camino review: A zippy and scenic ride, but we already had the map
Netflix’s follow-up film is well executed but adds little to the Breaking Bad universe
Actor Robert Forster dies aged 78 following brief illness
Stars pay tributes on social media after death of ‘Jackie Brown’ actor in Los Angeles
The week’s best rock and pop gigs: Yola, Elkae, Dermot Kennendy
Olly Murs plays the 3arena, Mike Pyro comes to Galway and club night Pure Shores hits Wigwam
Robert Forster: Inferno review – Best yet from former Go-Betweens frontman
Unfiltered songs hit required nerve with finesse, vanity, irony and conceit
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds pianist Conway Savage dies
Savage was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2017 and died on September 2nd
Big Ideas exhibition to showcase new technologies from Irish start-ups
Technologies include sepsis test and navigation system for disabled people
Rolling Blackouts CF: Hope Downs review – A near-perfect debut
The Melbourne band arrive in the nick of time to perform CPR on indie guitar rock
Sound job: the oral history of Microdisney
As band reforms to perform their acclaimed album, those involved explain how it was produced
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