(TV) Sleater Kinney...has TV relevance...plus the Go-Betweens !

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Well, since the Sleater Kinney band has inspired so many postings of late,
Here's more info: (and doesn't concern lawyer, corporate band members with
laptops ..and no soul):

I know there a few Go-Betweens fans on the list, ....Sleater Kinney members
(Brownstein, Weiss and Tucker) are part of the group performing with Robert
and Grant on the relatively recent Go Betweens album "The Friends Of Rachel
Worth".  Very fine album that..

Quick TV relevance: On the song from that album: "When She Sang About
Angels" , Robert sez: "When She sang about a boy...Kurt Cobain, I thought:
what a shame it wasn't about Tom Verlaine".




http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0421/040526_music_jukeboxjury.php

The Go-Betweens: "People Say" (1979) from The Indie Scene 1979: The Story of
British Independent Music (Connoisseur Collection)

Brownstein: The Go-Betweens. We flew in from Japan and we're, like, "Oh my
God, the Go-Betweens are playing." For some reason, we found out that they
even knew who we were. I was a really big fan of the Go-Betweens; I was
really surprised that they knew who we were. We went and they were just,
like, [raspy voice] "Sleater-Kinney, your drummer-we need you!" [Laughs] And
then suddenly, they were, like, "We'll come to Portland." It was really
surreal.

SW: So they weren't already planning to come out here?

Brownstein: No.

Weiss: [Robert Forster and Grant McLennan are] really interesting and have
such an intense dynamic. You don't even know how many times I'll say, "Come
to Portland, make a record, let's play!" And it's never panned out.

Brownstein: And then a band from Australia says OK.

Weiss : They just took me up on it.

Brownstein: More fun than the recording session was the one night we spent
with them in San Francisco. We spent a long time trying to find alcohol from
some corner store, then we went back to the hotel room.

Grant taught me and Amy [Linton] from the Aislers Set and Billy Karren from
Bikini Kill all the songs we wanted to know.

Weiss : We also took them to karaoke in Portland-that was pretty amazing.
Grant has the best voice of any human being alive. He did a Joni Mitchell
song. Robert did a James Taylor song. Grant and I did a duet, an Everly
Brothers song . . .  it was so good! That's my dream, to just be able to
sing with someone with a voice like that.
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