As much as I try to like their songs out of loyalty to Brisbane (theirs & my home town), this is the only one of their songs I have ever really liked.
It is about Brisbane & always makes me think of Brisbane in the 80s - a fun place for me because it was the "big smoke" where I went on holidays & also reminds me of the the female Lord Mayor back then who always seemed very glamourous to me . I think it was the theme song to a daily/weekly show about Brisbane on TV too. the stuff about being full of battered wives was a bit rough, but then its always been cool for The Go-Betweens and other Bris-bands of that era to shit on Brissy. I happen to love the place tho.
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town
As much as I try to like their songs out of loyalty to Brisbane (theirs & my home town), this is the only one of their songs I have ever really liked.
It is about Brisbane & always makes me think of Brisbane in the 80s - a fun place for me because it was the "big smoke" where I went on holidays & also reminds me of the the female Lord Mayor back then who always seemed very glamourous to me . I think it was the theme song to a daily/weekly show about Brisbane on TV too. the stuff about being full of battered wives was a bit rough, but then its always been cool for The Go-Betweens and other Bris-bands of that era to shit on Brissy. I happen to love the place tho.
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town
dont think grant was trying to insult brisbane when he said this town is full of battered wives, he was just describing the town as he saw it, and what he saw, and yeah domestic violence does occur in brisbane, as well as a lot of love, and a lot of fun, and a lot of different people of different ages and cultures, all in all, its a good town, with the good and the bad, and i think thats what grant was trying to encapsulate about this, our town