Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Oils survey

Dominic J Boyle dom at djboyle.co.uk
Fri Sep 3 04:16:10 MDT 2004


1. what's your name?  Dom
2.  where do you live?  London
3.  how old are you?  35
4.  what do you do for a living?  IT manager for a software company
5.  what was the first song you heard by the Oils?  The dead heart
6.  how old were you when you heard it?  18?
7.  what are your two favorite albums, from one extreme to the other?
Redneck Wonderland, Breathe
8.  favorite energetic song?  Lucky Country
9.  favorite slow song?  Burnie
10.  what song(s) defines the Oils?  The dead heart
11. what song is *least* characteristic of the Oils? Wedding Cake Island
12.  Martin or Jim?  Jim
13.  what Oils song did you absolutely hate at first and now love? No time
for games
14.  did you buy any Oils releases totally on faith, without having heard a
single song before buying it?  Most of them
15.  do you play any instruments?  Guitar (badly!)
16.  if you could go to any ONE place mentioned in an Oils song, where would
you go? Antarctica
17.  have the Oils ever inspired you to take any direct action as part of
any environmental/social activist cause?  No
18.  have you ever had any Oils-related dreams? No
19.  Bones or Giffo?  Bones
20.  what forgotten song deserves another spin?  Gravelrash