Robert Forster about his career, musical influences and songwriting craft | Splendour Forum 2015

Join ABC broadcaster, Robbie Buck as he chats to legendary Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and music critic Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens) about his career, musical influences, lyrical inspirations and the songwriting craft. Robert Forster was a founding member of The Go-Betweens and co-writer of “Cattle and Cane” Number 20 on APRAs Top Australian Songs List and is currently a writer, solo artist and performer with an ardent following in Australia, Germany, the UK and the US. He has released nine albums with The Go-Betweens and four solo albums with his fifth solo album due out in September 2015 through EMI Records. In 2006 his music writing won the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing. One of his pieces appeared in The Best American Music Writing 2007. When Robert won the Pascall Prize for criticism in 2006, the judges praised the charm and intellectual clarity of his work and hailed him as “a godsend because he writes about popular music with authority and grace that would be rare in any area of criticism and is all the more striking in a field where criticism is often modish.” #SITG2015