Does anyone have a recording of Robert Forster talking about 'He Lives My life' on BBC 6 Music a couple of weeks ago

I don't , but I'm curious why he was talking about it just last week since it's almost ancient history. Do you know any of what he was saying about it?

I think the '6 Music Songbook' feature tends to focus on non-current songs.

I have no idea what he was saying about it. If anyone heard it, I'd like to know.

"He Lives My Life" is on the bonus EP for the new album - probably why he was talking about it.

I heard the song as one of confused envy. I thought he was singing about a man a bit like the one in 'Draining The Pool For You'. Then I realised that other people thought it was about a doppelganger, or about watching oneself in an out-of-body experience, as a dislocated observer.

Alba, did you ever see the movie Toto the Hero?

Yes! I really loved it and for years would cite it as one of my favourite films. But now I can't remember anything about it, except for stealing a dress and singing that 'tic-tac-toc' song out of the back of a vehicle'.

I'd love to see it again. Tell me how it's relevant here. I also remember it's about a quest to find someone from the past.

It's about a guy who obsesses his whole life with his better-off next door neighbor, believing the two of them have been switched at birth in a hospital fire.

That's right! Thank you. I remember the fire scene now.

Well, the thing is. That's the way I read it, kind of.

But I've just found a reference to the BBC interview that suggests that's not the way RF meant it, and the "other people" mentioned above were right.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/pdfs/radio/week18/bbcradiowk18_fri.pdf

Robert Forster, of cult Aussie band The Go-Betweens, talks Mark Sutherland and Julie Cullen through his song-writing process, as he
dissects his track He Lives My Life, written about a friend whose life
began to mirror his own