Songfacts®:

• Darlinghurst is an inner-city suburb in eastern Sydney, Australia. The Go-Betweens recorded this celebratory ballad for their ninth and final studio album, Oceans Apart.
• The track finds the band's Robert Forster looking back at the Darlinghurst music scene of the mid-1980s.
  
  "'Darlinghurst Nights' is a very special song to me," Forster told Mojo magazine in 2023. "In the mid-80s the band used to spend a lot of time in Sydney, hanging around. You could bump into The Triffids walking down the street. In the song I could namecheck people, which I found satisfying using real situations, with a really nice sort of earnest-but-comic twist on it. It really resonated, but I don't know what triggered it."
• Marjorie and Kim, Andy and Clint, Debbie, Bertie
  People came and went
  And then there was Suzie who we never ever saw again
  
  The "Suzie who we never saw again" was a woman named Suzie Pullen, whom The Go-Betweens used see all the time. "She worked with secondhand clothes and stuff like that," explained Forster to Mojo. "In '86 Bob Dylan came to town, and she got phoned up by Dylan's people saying, 'Bob needs this.' We're in a café, and she gets the call, and we never saw her again - she's still doing Dylan's wardrobe! [laughs] Just like, whoosh! Disappeared."
• Oceans Apart was recorded at the Good Luck Studios in London between November 2004 through to January 2005. It won an ARIA award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, the only time The Go-Betweens took home a prize from the annual Australian ceremony.
• The Go-Betweens were co-led by singer-songwriters and guitarists Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. McLennan died on May 6, 2006, of a heart attack aged 48. After losing his bandmate, Forster announced that The Go-Betweens were no more. He said he couldn't imagine continuing the band without McLennan and that he didn't want to replace him.