Australia's The Go-Betweens was one of the better-kept secrets of the 1980s. With two passionate songwriters in the ranks (Robert Forster and Grant McLennan), the group made six albums in that period full of catchy and intelligent pop songs. A sound that a group like REM got away with later on. That Striped Sunlight Sound is the first DVD from this group reunited in 2000. First of all, it contains
… a performance from 2005 in an atmospheric and packed club in their hometown Brisbane. The Go-Betweens were never the personification of rock 'n' roll and here too it is about civilized and modest entertainment in which the songs do the work. In the second part, The Acoustic Stories, Forster and McLennan sit in a living room with guitar on their lap and tell extensively about the background of their songs before playing them in campfire style. Just under a dozen classics that just did not want to become classics pass in review. In any case, the pleasantly talkative duo does not seem to mind. (MR)more
