Midnight Oil

Subject: RE: [powderworks] Re: The Break
From: Jane R
Date: 25/01/2010, 11:27 am
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CC: <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

 
I was lucky to see The Break play at the Manly Festival of Surfing gig.  Firstly, they are fantastic live.  The energy of the Oils is transported into the Break, no cruisy instrumentals here!. Secondly the 'vocal interjections throughout' are exactly that 'interjections', there is no singing at all on any of the tracks that they played.  The majority of the songs dont have vocal, but they stand up really well without them!
 
As for playing Oils songs, its probably best to listen to the interview Rob gave last week on Triple M where he basically says they wouldnt play Midnight Oil songs because that's the other band, that's Midnight Oil, not The Break. I've included a link below as it's quite a good interview.

http://www.triplem.com.au/sydney/shows/paul-and-rach
 
Cheers,
Jane
 
CC: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
From: seeker42@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:39:57 +1100
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Re: The Break

 
Apparently they played Wedding Cake Island at (at least) one of the gigs leading up to the Manly Surf Festival. I wouldn't be surprised if it became a regular.

I too will be interested to see how things go on the vocals front - "15 mostly instrumental tracks" probably means "15 tracks with a light sprinkle of vocal interjections throughout" but it could also mean "14 tracks with a light sprinkle of vocals and 1 where Rob/Jim really wanted to sing".

As for Oils tracks, I wouldn't be surprised if Generals got broken out from time to time, and maybe Kosciusko if they're not feeling self-conscious about playing Oils songs.

I can imagine Bells and Horns returning, too, but perhaps in a reworked form that slims down the intro a bit.

- Chris

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:32 PM, david earle <canadavros@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
 


Just wondering - when they play live, the Break will have a few old surfy Oils tunes to choose from (Wedding Cake Island being the most obvious) Any other suggestions - Bell and horns in the back of beyond would be a goodie, though it would necessitate them breaking the lacovocal rule and doing Pete's semi-spoken intro.

Cheers
David

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