'' The Evangelist '' is the fifth solo album by Australian singer-songwriter Robert Forster , released by YepRoc in 2008 . Following the 1989 break-up of the Go-Betweens , the band he had formed at college in 1978 with his friend Grant McLennan , Robert Forster embarked on a solo career , releasing four albums under his own name between 1990 and 1996 . In 2000 , the Go-Betweens reunited and went on to record the albums '' The Friends of Rachel Worth '' ( 2000 ) , '' Bright Yellow Bright Orange '' ( 2003 ) and '' Oceans Apart '' ( 2005 ) . After winning Best Adult Contemporary Album at the 2005 ARIA Music Awards for '' Oceans Apart '' , Forster and McLennan began working on the tenth Go-Betweens album and had started writing eight songs together . McLennan died of a heart attack in May 2006 , and Forster began work on completing three of the songs they had started writing together . The first new song that Forster wrote for '' the Evangelist '' was its title track , which was written in one day in August 2006
2005 ARIA Music Awards
ARIA Music Awards of 2005
The Evangelist (Robert Forster album)