Thank You For A Lovely Day: 10 Go-Betweens Songcomics: 11 The Go-Betweens Songcomics - Hardcover

Gunther Buskies; Jonas Engelmann; Robert Forster; The Go-Betweens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3955751821 ISBN 13: 9783955751821

Publisher: Ventil Verlag UG, 2023

Synopsis

Pop music and comic culture – somehow they have always been siblings. So what could be more natural than to have the great songs of one of the most legendary bands transformed into comic strips by fantastic illustrators and cartoonists?

So here it is: The Go-Betweens Song Comic – Thank You For A Lovely Day. Eleven songs from the entire creative period of the legendary Australian band interpreted by eleven international cartoonists and artists. As diverse, colourful and complex as the band's nine studio albums.

In 1977, friends Robert Forster and Grant McLennan founded The Go-Betweens in Brisbane, Australian and within a few years their folky indie rock, songs such as 'Right Here', 'Love Goes On' and 'Streets of Your Town' helped make them an international force in the indie world. In 1989, the band disbanded after six successful albums, only to return in 2000 with a new album 'The Friends of Rachel Worth’ - recorded together with the members of Sleater-Kinney - followed by 'Bright Yellow Bright Orange’ in 2003 and ‘Oceans Apart’ in 2005 after which the sudden death of Grant McLennan in May 2006 put an end to recording activity.

Since then, Robert Forster has been nurturing the band's legacy; helping re-release and present their early works in the form of two box sets by Domino Records, telling the story of The Go-Betweens, as a story of true friendship, in his autobiography "Grant and I” as well as releasing numerous solo albums and touring them around the world.

Liner Notes by Robert Forster.

About this title

About the Author

Gunther Buskies was born in 1972 and has always been involved with music for as long as he can remember. In 2002 he founded the indie-pop label Tapete Records and a little later the label Bureau B, which specialises in electronic and more experimental sounds. To date he has released over 700 albums internationally. He is active himself as a musician, composer and lyricist, e.g. in the band The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Jonas Engelmann is a qualified literary scholar, editor and freelance journalist. He did his doctorate on images of society in comics, writes about films, music, literature, feminism, Jewish identity and air people, and edits books for Ventil Verlag.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ventil Verlag UG
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3955751821
• ISBN 13: 9783955751821
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Buskies Gunther, Engelmann Jonas