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Kate
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At 12:23 PM 6/9/03 +1000, Erin Oneill wrote:
>The bald one recieved a Queens birthday honour thing today (AM, Member of
>the general division: Peter Robert GARRETT, Mittagong NSW. Service to the
>community and the music industry). I note that he hasn't said no to it on
>principle (as did Paul Keating a few years ago...).
>
>There was a review of Rob's book by Iain Shedden in the Australian (can't
>find it on the website). It was quite negative and effectively said that
>it was too fragmented in its approach. It skipped across the surface of
>issues and did not delve deely enough into any one thing to be
>satisfying. More or less saying that as a novelist Rob makes a very good
>drummer. I can't remember who on the list wrote similar comments, but it
>was someone who wrote one of the first reviews of the book. Iain shedden
>is also a drummer and has written reviews for Oils albums as well as
>ghosties (fibromoon) for the Australian. He has always been honest in his
>appraisal of the efforts of the band.
>
>As for the departure of Pete... for a long time I have suspected that
>there were significant tensions between rob and pete... certainly at the
>anu bar gig last year, pete had a go at french philosophy (which might
>have pissed rob off). In many ways those two are like chalk and chese. I
>think that Pete walking out just when they had such a strong album t
>promote and when there were so many european fans wanting to see them was
>a bit stupid and selfish (I am assuming that there was no family crisis or
>health problems) and it's a fair bet to say that Rob would have been
>really pissed off at that. Through other people I have been informed that
>pete could be a bit precious - they were certainly not impressed with his
>behaviour in their dealings with him. I suspect he was starting to
>believe his own press a bit too much. Of all the people in the band, Pete
>is the one I like least - he assumes too much and musically he is the
>least talented. - a showman, not a musician (but hey, they were great
>gigs and the music will live on for some time to come...!!!). I think
>that if the remainders could find another singer (female) I think that
>would work very well, although they shouldn't call themselves the
>remainders as that forever defines them as leftovers of midnight oil
>rather than being a new band producing music in its own name.
>
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At 12:23 PM 6/9/03 +1000, Erin Oneill wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite><font size=3D2>The bald one
recieved a Queens birthday honour thing today (AM, Member of the general
division: Peter Robert GARRETT, Mittagong NSW. Service to the community
and the music industry). I note that he hasn't said no to it on
principle (as did Paul Keating a few years ago...).</font><br>
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<font size=3D2>There was a review of Rob's book by Iain Shedden in the
Australian (can't find it on the website). It was quite negative
and effectively said that it was too fragmented in its approach. It
skipped across the surface of issues and did not delve deely enough into
any one thing to be satisfying. More or less saying that as a
novelist Rob makes a very good drummer. I can't remember who on the
list wrote similar comments, but it was someone who wrote one of the
first reviews of the book. Iain shedden is also a drummer and has
written reviews for Oils albums as well as ghosties (fibromoon) for the
Australian. He has always been honest in his appraisal of the
efforts of the band.</font><br>
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<font size=3D2>As for the departure of Pete... for a long time I have
suspected that there were significant tensions between rob and pete...
certainly at the anu bar gig last year, pete had a go at french
philosophy (which might have pissed rob off). In many ways those
two are like chalk and chese. I think that Pete walking out just
when they had such a strong album t promote and when there were so many
european fans wanting to see them was a bit stupid and selfish (I am
assuming that there was no family crisis or health problems) and it's a
fair bet to say that Rob would have been really pissed off at that.
Through other people I have been informed that pete could be a bit
precious - they were certainly not impressed with his behaviour in
their dealings with him. I suspect he was starting to believe his
own press a bit too much. Of all the people in the band, Pete is
the one I like least - he assumes too much and musically he is the least
talented. - a showman, not a musician (but hey, they were great
gigs and the music will live on for some time to come...!!!). I
think that if the remainders could find another singer (female) I think
that would work very well, although they shouldn't call themselves the
remainders as that forever defines them as leftovers of midnight oil
rather than being a new band producing music in its own=20
name.</font><br>
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