Robert Forster is a Brisbane based singer-songwriter and author. In 1978, with Queensland University friend Grant McLennan, he co-founded the acclaimed pop/rock band The Go-Betweens. The group, based in London for five and a half years, recorded six albums, toured extensively, before breaking up in late 1989.

In the 1990s, while living in Brisbane and Regensburg, Germany, Forster recorded and toured three solo albums of original material: Danger In The Past (1990); Calling From A Country Phone (1993); and Warm Nights (1996). He also released an album of his favourite songs by other artists called I Had a New York Girlfriend (1994).

In 2000, reunited with Grant McLennan, The Go-Betweens recorded their seventh album, and would record two more albums, one of which, Oceans Apart, was awarded the ARIA Best Adult Contemporary Album of 2005.

On May 6, 2006, Grant McLennan’s passed away at the age of 48.

Between 2007 and 2023, Forster recorded four albums of original material: The Evangelist (2008); Songs To Play (2015); Inferno (2019); and Candle And The Flame (2023).

In 2025 he returns with Strawberries: ‘I am enormously excited to be touring with a rock band again,’ Forster says. ‘The first time in six years. And not just any rock band – there are the genius Swedish players from my new album Strawberries, recorded in Stockholm. I love the album and I wanted to bring the group with me out on the rock and roll highway. We are wanting to impress.’