Midnight Oil

Subject: RE: [powderworks] "(The Oils ran away very quickly, like deer in the forest.)".
From: John McCrory
Date: 24/03/2008, 3:26 pm
To: rick <rickysan@optusnet.com.au>, <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>


Could not agree more Rick at first I could not put the book down but then it just got stupid and hard to read, still have not finished it.....Although I loved the music of the Hunters, Mark should stick to writing songs and not books. I recall seeing them a Parra Leagues don't remember when but Jim & Martin both got up and did two numbers....the place went off....also recall being at the Royal Antler one night when the Oil's blew a fuse and put the whole place in darkness....ahhh good time was had by all......
 
 
John


To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.auFrom: rickysan@optusnet.com.auDate: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:49:03 +1100Subject: Re: [powderworks] "(The Oils ran away very quickly, like deer in the forest.)".




I've been largely disappointed in Seymour's book....I love Hunters and Collectors, so they subject matter alone hs made it enjoyable, but i HATE his writing style He has largely written it like a novel, rather than a biography.... Which is a style i'm sure lots of people will love ....but not me Rick----- Original Message ----- From: tr_espen To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 3:19 PMSubject: [powderworks] "(The Oils ran away very quickly, like deer in the forest.)".Powdies,Would the Oils REALLY flee an intellectual joust, two decades beforethe now Environment Minister's tongue was confined to Labor Partybarracks?:"Like an order of Trappist monks, we could go for days withoutspeaking to each other (especially when crossing Canada). A school ofhumour emerged. Band culture was so witheringly dry it left band roomhangers-on utterly exhausted. [afore-mentioned quote follows here]"Elsewhere in Mark Seymour's reminder that there have been musicalgroups other than the Oils:"The band's obscurity was entirely self-inflicted. We had aCalvinistic contempt for flashy display. We aimed for substance overstyle. Hyperbole was considered vain and corrupt. Consequently,promotion was difficult. it drove the manager mad. Loudly professingour egalitarianism was probably the closest we ever got anything likea message: hardly a quality likely to galvanise teenage hysteria. Butwe meant it. The sound engineer shared in the songwriting royalties.Years later we would famously be called a bunch of communists. Itwas pretty much on the money. Everything was shared equally,sometimes even the beer, which took prodigious degree ofself-discipline. We weren't sexy, we didn't behave badly (at leastnot in public), we never won any awards, [ed. note - !] and none of ushad famous girlfriends (except me, for three weeks and no one everfound out, and you won't read about it in here, either). We were apromotional non-event: except onstage, the one place where thingsmattered"."Thirteen Tonne Theory: Life Inside Hunters and Collectors" (Viking$32.95), Mark Seymour, reviewed in the Weekend Aus. 22.03.08[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 






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