[nina selzer]

great little article - really gets into peter's "regular guy" side.

interesting irony on the typo of "rhythmic wonderland", as i've always felt 
the oils to be extremely rhythmic.

and i LOVE peter's last comment: "As long as they don't call me a 
Republican, I'm happy."

i just finished the book, "Fast Food Nation" (i highly recommend everyone 
read that book!!!)  and i'm finding that i hate republicans even more than 
before! - evil people!

: )

nina



on 7/12/02 3:33 PM, dbrunner@execpc.com at dbrunner@execpc.com wrote:

>This is a review that appeared on Madison.com
>http://www.madison.com/rhythm/28870.php
>
>Midnight Oil lightens up (a little)
>By Natasha Kassulke
>
>Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett realizes that the band is known
>as much for its political activism as for its music.
>
>But he says Midnight Oil has lightened its image over the past several
>years, and band members are having more fun than ever on and off the
>stage in the United States.
>
>"G'day," Garrett says in a thick Australian accent, speaking from his
>hotel room at the Pfister in Milwaukee before the group's recent
>Summerfest show.
>
>Although he's spent the Fourth of July in the middle of America,
>Garrett says he's not interested in the fireworks.
>
>"We've seen our fair share of fireworks in Sydney over the last
>several years," he says. "They are a fine visual treat. But I wouldn't
>travel for them."
>
>Garrett is more impressed that the Pfister beds are plenty long.
>
>"I like the beds because I can stretch," says the 6-foot-5 Garrett.
>"This bed is old and solid. Just like my surfboard."
>
>He's a striking frontman ˆ tall, bald and outspoken.
>
>It's been four years since Americans have heard from the band, and
>Garrett says their new tour sees them playing a mix of old songs like
>"Beds Are Burning" plus material from their recently released
>"Capricornia" CD.
>
>"As you play into a tour, you either become dry and fossilized or you
>meld it and let it breathe and go in all sorts of different
>directions, and that's what we're trying to do," Garrett says.
>
>To make the new CD, the band spent time in the Australian bush and
>built songs around the epic novel "Capricornia," which is named after
>the hostile, tropical northern reaches of Australia. Garrett says the
>album is about discerning the deeper rhythms in life and making sense
>of it.
>
>The songs remain lyrically passionate and consciousness-raising.
>Garrett contends that the band has existed for as long as it has due
>to a conviction that the noise it makes and the way it is communicated
>to an audience has meaning.
>
>"Sometimes it seems that television has inoculated us against the
>places that music can take us to," he says. "I think that we still
>hold on to the belief that music is something that sweeps you up and
>lifts you up and takes you off to somewhere all together."
>
>But the new music also is meant to be accessible to the mainstream.
>
>"An idea called pop sort of inserted itself as well," he says.
>
>The songs were recorded primitively by today's standards, but Garrett
>likes the results.
>
>"You can record with a lot of technology or you can do it almost like
>newborn babies without the wrinkles," he says.
>
>Garrett says that historically the band has always had complete
>freedom to play what they want but that hasn't always translated into
>radio play.
>
>He calls radio producers the new Rush Limbaughs.
>
>"They are perfectly happy to play highly profane material, but they
>don't want to play anything that gets to the heart of politics. For
>them politics is more threatening."
>
>Midnight Oil's last CD, "Rhythmic Wonderland," had a strong anti-
>racism theme. But Garrett says it got little more than college radio
>play in America.
>
>"For us that's interesting, because we are a mainstream band at home,"
>he says. "But you've just got to tour those albums and get in front of
>people."
>
>He sees the frontman as a conductor between the audience and the
>stage.
>
>"We have no image," he says. "It's kind of chunky and rough around the
>edges, a little bit like bites of Australia."
>
>Midnight Oil is a sidebar career for the group. Each has other jobs at
>home.
>
>Garrett, who has a law degree, says he is taking a break from
>politics. He ran for a seat on the Australian Senate on the Nuclear
>Disarmament ticket in the early 1980s and lost by a slim margin.
>
>"I'm pretty fully committed at this time," Garrett says. Besides
>playing in Midnight Oil, he is president of the Australian
>Conservation Foundation. He formerly was on the board of Greenpeace.
>
>He also recently tried his hand at classical music with the help of
>the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Last spring he toured with the
>orchestra and provided narration for their program.
>
>These days, when Yanks think of Down Under, they think of the
>Crocodile Hunter.
>
>"Midnight Oil is far more realistic than the Crocodile Hunter ever
>was, though," Garrett says. "We won't be pretending. What you'll see
>is real."
>
>Garrett says he's missed the diverse audience in the U.S.
>
>"Everyone hasn't got the same haircut, which is nice," he says. "And
>one of the things about touring the United States is that whichever
>town or city you go to, there will be some music going on and it's
>really diverse."
>
>He rarely wears a disguise in public ˆ though he may don a hat and a
>pair of "sunnys." He says he doesn't live in an ivory tower.
>
>"Sometimes people think I'm a racer, sometimes they think I'm a
>swimmer, and sometimes they think I'm a singer," he says. "As long as
>they don't call me a Republican, I'm happy."
>
>From Rhythm, Thursday 7/11/02
>©2002 Madison Newspapers, Inc. All rights reserved
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Powderworks mailing list
>Powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
>http://www.cs.colorado.edu/mailman/listinfo/powderworks
>








>From: dbrunner@execpc.com
>To: powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
>Subject: [Powderworks] Madison Show Review
>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:33:05 -0500 (CDT)
>
>This is a review that appeared on Madison.com
>http://www.madison.com/rhythm/28870.php
>
>Midnight Oil lightens up (a little)
>By Natasha Kassulke
>
>Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett realizes that the band is known
>as much for its political activism as for its music.
>
>But he says Midnight Oil has lightened its image over the past several
>years, and band members are having more fun than ever on and off the
>stage in the United States.
>
>"G'day," Garrett says in a thick Australian accent, speaking from his
>hotel room at the Pfister in Milwaukee before the group's recent
>Summerfest show.
>
>Although he's spent the Fourth of July in the middle of America,
>Garrett says he's not interested in the fireworks.
>
>"We've seen our fair share of fireworks in Sydney over the last
>several years," he says. "They are a fine visual treat. But I wouldn't
>travel for them."
>
>Garrett is more impressed that the Pfister beds are plenty long.
>
>"I like the beds because I can stretch," says the 6-foot-5 Garrett.
>"This bed is old and solid. Just like my surfboard."
>
>He's a striking frontman – tall, bald and outspoken.
>
>It's been four years since Americans have heard from the band, and
>Garrett says their new tour sees them playing a mix of old songs like
>"Beds Are Burning" plus material from their recently released
>"Capricornia" CD.
>
>"As you play into a tour, you either become dry and fossilized or you
>meld it and let it breathe and go in all sorts of different
>directions, and that's what we're trying to do," Garrett says.
>
>To make the new CD, the band spent time in the Australian bush and
>built songs around the epic novel "Capricornia," which is named after
>the hostile, tropical northern reaches of Australia. Garrett says the
>album is about discerning the deeper rhythms in life and making sense
>of it.
>
>The songs remain lyrically passionate and consciousness-raising.
>Garrett contends that the band has existed for as long as it has due
>to a conviction that the noise it makes and the way it is communicated
>to an audience has meaning.
>
>"Sometimes it seems that television has inoculated us against the
>places that music can take us to," he says. "I think that we still
>hold on to the belief that music is something that sweeps you up and
>lifts you up and takes you off to somewhere all together."
>
>But the new music also is meant to be accessible to the mainstream.
>
>"An idea called pop sort of inserted itself as well," he says.
>
>The songs were recorded primitively by today's standards, but Garrett
>likes the results.
>
>"You can record with a lot of technology or you can do it almost like
>newborn babies without the wrinkles," he says.
>
>Garrett says that historically the band has always had complete
>freedom to play what they want but that hasn't always translated into
>radio play.
>
>He calls radio producers the new Rush Limbaughs.
>
>"They are perfectly happy to play highly profane material, but they
>don't want to play anything that gets to the heart of politics. For
>them politics is more threatening."
>
>Midnight Oil's last CD, "Rhythmic Wonderland," had a strong anti-
>racism theme. But Garrett says it got little more than college radio
>play in America.
>
>"For us that's interesting, because we are a mainstream band at home,"
>he says. "But you've just got to tour those albums and get in front of
>people."
>
>He sees the frontman as a conductor between the audience and the
>stage.
>
>"We have no image," he says. "It's kind of chunky and rough around the
>edges, a little bit like bites of Australia."
>
>Midnight Oil is a sidebar career for the group. Each has other jobs at
>home.
>
>Garrett, who has a law degree, says he is taking a break from
>politics. He ran for a seat on the Australian Senate on the Nuclear
>Disarmament ticket in the early 1980s and lost by a slim margin.
>
>"I'm pretty fully committed at this time," Garrett says. Besides
>playing in Midnight Oil, he is president of the Australian
>Conservation Foundation. He formerly was on the board of Greenpeace.
>
>He also recently tried his hand at classical music with the help of
>the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Last spring he toured with the
>orchestra and provided narration for their program.
>
>These days, when Yanks think of Down Under, they think of the
>Crocodile Hunter.
>
>"Midnight Oil is far more realistic than the Crocodile Hunter ever
>was, though," Garrett says. "We won't be pretending. What you'll see
>is real."
>
>Garrett says he's missed the diverse audience in the U.S.
>
>"Everyone hasn't got the same haircut, which is nice," he says. "And
>one of the things about touring the United States is that whichever
>town or city you go to, there will be some music going on and it's
>really diverse."
>
>He rarely wears a disguise in public – though he may don a hat and a
>pair of "sunnys." He says he doesn't live in an ivory tower.
>
>"Sometimes people think I'm a racer, sometimes they think I'm a
>swimmer, and sometimes they think I'm a singer," he says. "As long as
>they don't call me a Republican, I'm happy."
>
>From Rhythm, Thursday 7/11/02
>©2002 Madison Newspapers, Inc. All rights reserved
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Powderworks mailing list
>Powderworks@cs.colorado.edu
>http://www.cs.colorado.edu/mailman/listinfo/powderworks




_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: 
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx