Some passages from My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn

Some passages from My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn: * “My band the Marine Girls have been described as looking like we’d break your arm before we’d let you break our hearts, and these things sound like compliments, praising women who are no one’s fool. But there’s an implication that demanding equal space and respect makes you the aggressor. These journalists, they are either scared of you, or they are pretending to be. And they shift the blame for this on to you.” * “One interviewer says to her that all the Brits know of her culture is ‘lager, Paul Hogan and Australian rules football’, to which Lindy [Morrison] replies, with an accuracy that can only have silenced him where he stood: ‘It’s the same for Australians. We see your soccer violence, Benny Hill and Margaret Thatcher. We think you’re pretty barbaric too.” * “Within the world of The Go-Betweens she finds Robert and Grant endlessly depressing, describing them in an interview as ‘the most boring and sad people… That’s…