Old music: The Go-Betweens – Cattle and Cane

A song about growing up on a rural Queensland cattle station can strike chords far from Australia My relationship with the Go-Betweens, and in particular this song, dates from 1982. The farm Grant McLennan – half of the front pairing of the Go-Betweens, alongside Robert Forster – grew up on, in northern Queensland in Australia, was a long way from my childhood home, in the southernmost part of New Zealand's South Island, but the impressions they left felt the same. The song was recorded and ...

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