Patrick Chapman

Here is an in-depth exploration of Robert Forster's debut solo album, Danger in the Past (1990). Dublin, Ireland. That World Cup summer of 1990. A 21-year-old poet listens, entranced, when his friend puts on an LP, The Go-Betweens: 1978–1990. As the city outside goes football crazy, the poet discovers his new favourite band and learns that he’ll never see them...