The waste (memory wastes)

I just got a text message from my friend Gerard in Ireland telling me that Grant McLennan just died.

We saw The Go-Betweens together in Dublin in 1989 supporting REM on the Green world tour — still one of the best gigs of my life. I never got the chance to see them since the reunion… guess I never will.

The world is a poorer place without the man who wrote and sang:

When the rain hit the roof with the sound of a finished kiss
like when a lip lifts from a lip
I took the wrong road round.

Monday, May 8th, 2006 5:30pm

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