Mick and Drew, the title characters of The Go-Betweens singer-songwriter Robert Forster's debut novel, Songwriters on the Run, are in over their heads.The pair — "in their early thirties, tall and skinny, rock-star-wrecked handsome" — are bathing in the "feeling of exhausted ecstasy" after a gig in Rockhampton when a fan passes them a bag of marijuana.Some men loitering on the periphery of the dressing room spring into action, announcing they're police and arresting the duo for a quantity of drugs that amounts to dealing.It gets worse from there. The credit card the pair have been using for expenses is not in their manager Bingo's name, as they believed I know that sounds corny, and it's very old-fashioned, but it's why young, creative people are still going to LA."Songwriters on The Run is also an affectionate portrait of a pre-social media era.While today a band in this position could search for their missing manager online, Mick and Drew must rely on an underground of musicians, roadies, venue owners and fans for whispers of the rogue's whereabouts.It was also a time when musicians were more enigmatic