Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] The Oil may burn again...

Rhonda kayak at sympatico.ca
Mon Jan 10 14:35:50 MST 2005


Hi Dayne,

Do you have a link to the original article handy?  I was unable to 
locate it on the abc.net.au website.

Thanks,
Rhonda



Dayne Dale wrote:

> Check out the last sentance in this article from abc.net.au. Please 
> let it be true, and please let a final farewell tour follow...
>
> Millions pledged in tsunami benefit telethon
> Thousands of people have flocked to a benefit concert for victims of 
> the Boxing Day tsunami at the Sydney Opera House and millions are 
> thought to have watched a telethon that has raised over $15 million in 
> pledges.
>
> The telethon was simultaneously broadcast by all the commercial 
> networks, an unprecedented collaboration, and also shown on the ABC's 
> Asia-Pacific Television in Indonesia, Thailand, India, Malaysia and 
> other South-East Asian nations.
>
> Musicians who performed include Kasey Chambers, Missy Higgins, Killing 
> Heidi, The Disassociatives, Noiseworks, The Whitlams and Guy Sebastian.
>
> The Wrights - a group consisting of members of Jet, Spiderbait, The 
> Living End, You Am I, Dallas Crane, Powderfinger and Grinspoon - also 
> performed.
>
> The 4,500 tickets for the concert sold out in less than an hour, 
> raising $112,500 for the World Vision charity.
>
> Television personalities from all the commercial networks - including 
> Rove McManus, Eddie McGuire, Bert Newton, Gretel Killeen and Darryl 
> Somers - co-hosted the telethon.
>
> Ratings figures were put on hold for the event.
>
> Celebrities took calls in Melbourne to accept pledges for World 
> Vision's tsunami relief appeal.
>
> The tsunamis have claimed more than 150,000 lives around the Indian Ocean.
>
> Another benefit concert is reportedly planned for January 29 and will 
> feature Jet, Silverchair and the John Butler Trio and a reformed 
> Midnight Oil.
>
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