“Watching everything I do-o-o...” That antique photograph of Go-Betweens star Grant McLennan I’ve been promising...

As you can probably tell -- by the presence of hair on his head for one -- this pic of Grant McLennan dates from the early 1980s. I’m sorry to say, I can’t tell you exactly where and when it was taken. I’m guessing the old Crystal/Seaview Ballroom in St Kilda in 1981. 1982 at the latest. Maybe Rob Forster can ID the clothing. (Then again, maybe not. Wardrobe wasn’t an especially high priority!)


Grant McLennan (photograph Chris Boyd, click on image to enlarge)

It’s one of a tiny number of concert photographs on permanent display in my ‘white’ album since taken... a lucky combination of exposure and expression. (And, yes, Grant had a copy.)

Since I wrote about his recent death, here, I’ve made a couple of additions to the piece -- extracts and links -- as news has come to hand, and interesting obituaries have appeared in the press.