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MELBOURNE⪥BRISBANE: punk, art and after was officially opened at the Ian Potter Museum of Art last night.Special guest Robert Forster sang about the time, in the early 1980s, when the Go-Betweens relocated from Brisbane to Melbourne. How they slowly realised, among their circle, there were two Melbourne music scenes: the unreconstructed Rock wannabes of St Kilda and the cold anaemic theorists of Fitzroy-Northcote, as each group characterised the other. The Go-Betweens had friends in both camps, north and south of the Yarra: "We weren't called the Go-Betweens for nothing".
Robert was accompanied on lute by a member of The Angels ...
... an early Melbourne little band formed by the artist John Perceval in 1958 ...
... and depicted by John Brack, John Perceval and his angels, in 1962 ...
... much as Jenny Watson would in 1981 picture the Go-Betweens for the cover of their LP record Send me a lullaby ...
... much as this exhibition's curator, David Pestorius, in his turn ...
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