Robert Forster

Robert Forster is a Brisbane-born and based musician and writer. In 1978 he co-founded with friend and fellow singer-songwriter Grant McLennan the internationally acclaimed rock band The Go-Betweens. They released nine albums during their career; their sixth, 16 Lovers Lane, was placed at twelve on The Hundred Best Australian Albums list. In 2010, Brisbane honoured the cultural influence of the band by naming a new river bridge the Go Between Bridge.

A parallel career began for Forster in 2005, when he was appointed music critic for The Monthly. A year later he won the Geraldine Pascall Prize for this writing; and a collection of his journalism, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll, was published in 2009. Forster left The Monthly in 2013 to devote more time to writing his memoir, Grant & I. In 2015, Forster’s alma mater, the University of Queensland, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.