Ex-Go-Betweens member Robert Forster is about to release his 9th solo Album Strawberries (Tapete Records), set for release on May 23, 2025. It follows a spate of deluxe reissues of four of his older solo albums as well as the 3rd and final volume of the career-spanning series of “G Stands For Go-Betweens” boxsets with a much awaited helping of new material, beautifully produced in Sweden by Peter Morén (of Peter, Björn & John pop pedigree).

Today, the seasoned musician shares the new bouncy single, “All Of The Time,” taken from the album. As the surviving half of the great songwriting duo behind Australian indie legends The Go-Betweens next to Grant McLennan who died in 2006, Robert Forster has maintained a solid career on his own terms through tireless touring, writing (the books Grant & I and The Ten Rules of Rock’n’Roll, and a new novel coming), and recording.

“The last album was very personaI,” says Robert, “I didn’t write anything for about a year after I’d finished ‘She’s a Fighter’ for the last album. And then I just started to write songs that were something a little bit else. They just came naturally. I didn’t really have a theme, it was just sort of lighter, a situation a little bit outside of myself. And I thought that was good. That was a place I could go to”.

The first song to point in this new direction was “All of the Time”, starting with the ominous couplet “There’s propaganda and there’s truth / And there’s a feeling that I get when I’m with you”. We never quite learn what sinister plot lurks in the background, but these words combined with the subtle suggestion of a glam boogie groove imply a certain clandestine sexiness not usually associated with the Forster canon. “It was just this sort of language that I normally didn’t use,” says the man himself, “It meant I wasn’t going into my present situation. It just pushed me out there and made it less confessional. A lot more playful and a lot more story-orientated as well.”

Forster will embark on a new tour this Fall. Dates listed below.

Robert Forster And His Swedish Band will be touring the new album on:

26th September 2025 Sweden Stockholm Debaser/Bar Brooklyn 
27th September 2025 Denmark Copenhagen Small Vega 
29th September 2025 Germany Hamburg Knust 
30th September 2025 Germany Berlin Festaal Kreuzberg 
1st October 2025 Germany Dresden Beatpol 
2nd October 2025 Austria Wien Akzent Theater 
4th October 2025 Austria Linz Posthof 
5th October 2025 Germany Landsberg Stadtheater 
6th October 2025 Germany Frankfurt Zoom 
7th October 2025 Germany Koln Stadtgarden 
9th October 2025 England Brighton St George’s 
10th October 2025 Wales Cardiff The Gate 
11th October 2025 England London Union Chapel 
13th October 2025 England Manchester Band on the Wall 
15th October 2025 Ireland Dublin National Concert Hall 
17th October 2025 Scotland Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre 
18th October 2025 Scotland Glasgow St Luke’s 
19th October 2025 England Leicester Y Theatre