Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Hunners
From: Tammy
Date: 4/06/2008, 8:51 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

This is what is listed in Mark's book.

96 cans of full-strength beer
2 large bottles of Absolut
4 bottles of cabernet
4 bottles of chardonnay
1 bottles of sambuca

*-Hunters & Collectors rider, circa 1996

*Tammy


2008/6/3 tr_espen <tomspencer@eml.cc>:

  Dear Powdies

Further to earlier posts about Mark Seymour's book "13 Tonne Theory"
(Viking, 416pp, $32.95), Robert Forster (Go-Betweens' lead singer and
now writer for "The Monthly" mag) has written a very favourable review
of the book. Forster, who one of my friends reckons is one of
Australia's finest music reviewers because he's been in a leading
band, sees Seymour's work as a "breakthrough rock biography":

"For not only has Seymour managed to get the band's history down in a
fresh and entertaining manner, he ahs done it in an inventive way that
leaves much rock historyand memoir, here and overseas, looking stodgy
and uninspired. Seymour has gone for the snapshot approach, small
single-theme chapters that have the enigma and impact of short
stories...giving the book an impressionistic air of good fiction while
simultaneously allowing a suprisingly clear and detailed account of
the group's history to emerge".

Also, in contrast to Seymour's hairy-chested comments about the Oils I
quoted in an earlier post, Forster writes that Seymour comes across as
a "warm, generous, laconic and most importantly, self-deprecating
person" in the book, someone who "can craft sentence and paragraph,
weave in dialogue and know when to gracefully exit a chapter".

As to the Oils specifically:

"So the second half of the book is the tale of two lands, the constant
knocking on success's door with Midnight Oil leading the way through
Europe and America, and then the return to the comforts and wild
shores of Australian rock 'n' roll - a place where audience members
are known as punters, the veneration of the road crew and their eating
habits exists [huh?], and the legendary Hunters and Collectors rider
provokes a stunned Peter Garrett to exclaim, "They'll never drink that."

Any ideas on what the rider was?

t

 



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