The Go-Betweens: Up From Down Under

HOW TOUCHINGLY ENGLISH this all is. Outside in the late autumn Notting Hill Gate landscape shoppers shuffle through the leaves, surprised at the novelty of a mild November day. Inside in the basement area of this homely hotel, Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens is being Mummy, sloshing a second round from the silver-coloured teapot into the bone china cups.