1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: You can catch Peter Garrett and the Alter Egos February 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: twenty eight at the East Perth power Station as part 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: of the Perth Festival. Tickets are available through Perthfestival dot 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: com dot au and Peter Garrett is joining us now. 5 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: Good morning, morning, morning. 6 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: Peter Garrett. Playing at a power station just speaks to 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: me in a very kismety way. 8 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 2: It's a better way to do it, isn't it put it. 9 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,079 Speaker 3: Into absolutely it's been for years. 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: Nice to see it being. 11 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 2: Used totally totally. Well look, I mean, you know it's 12 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 2: great and exciting and all of that stuff to still 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,920 Speaker 2: be playing and you know, to scratch the itch and 14 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: to really let that energy thing which I'm very thankful 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 2: for still run its course and the fact that we're 16 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 2: able to come over and do a show. It's part 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 2: of the fist. Obviously it's a really good thing and 18 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 2: very cool and exciting and so on. But I also 19 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 2: like inhabiting different spaces and places when we play. Loved 20 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 2: It in the Oars, Love It in the Altars, and 21 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: transforming something from what it was into something new where 22 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 2: people can actually just gather and celebrate and enjoy and 23 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 2: you know, have a night of it. 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: You've never been a shy and a mere man on stage, 25 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: so I can't imagine what you would what you know, 26 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: state you'd be in if you didn't have that outlet 27 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,199 Speaker 1: out on stage. 28 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 2: Those boats you feel the same way. 29 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. Actually, what you get bored at home? Paid 30 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 3: do you like to be out on the road? Du'tain 31 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,679 Speaker 3: and they'll project. 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 2: Boredom and all that stuff. It's just not in my DNA, really, 33 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 2: But I think, you know, when I think about it, 34 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:36,839 Speaker 2: and I think about the time with yours and even 35 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 2: when we've played over in the West or wherever it 36 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 2: might have been, just that opportunity that incredible. It's like 37 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 2: the sacred space, you know, the fact that you can 38 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: still occupy a stage and you know you've got music 39 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: and you've got things that you want to say, and 40 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: you want to make the night. You want to make 41 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 2: it shimmer and shake as much as you can. And yeah, 42 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: if I have to do it elsewhere, hay to do 43 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 2: it elsewhere. But I love it. And I've got plenty 44 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: of things that I'm doing and lots of stuff that 45 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 2: I'm interested in, and you know, the sub politics or 46 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 2: whatever it might be. But you know, at this point 47 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: in time, it's still it's a retreat, you know, to 48 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: be able to take that energy and to utilize it 49 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,280 Speaker 2: and to bring some really fine missings on stage. Matt 50 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: Rossi's playing with me, made the record journal with me, 51 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: and you know it's just it's a heap of fun. Yeah. 52 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: True North solo album came out last year. How do 53 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 1: you find the process? You know, when you when you're 54 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: going solo, the decision making the recording. I mean, sometimes 55 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: I guess life can be a bit careful what you 56 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 1: wish for. 57 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: Well, you know, the truth of it is that I mean, 58 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: I suppose it is it is a solo thing. It 59 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 2: doesn't feel like it to me. It just feels like 60 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: an offshoot what I've always been doing. Okay, the boys 61 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: always had other projects on the go, and I think, yeah, 62 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 2: when I made a first record, I thought, oh, this 63 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 2: is fun. I don't have to please for other people, 64 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 2: you know, So that side of it, you've got a 65 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 2: bit more freedom to explore things. And it's also the 66 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 2: unpredictability of not knowing where a song will go. I mean, 67 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 2: the power and the intensity that we were like absolutely 68 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 2: welded and so incredibly lucky to have in the Oils. 69 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 2: There was always a surplus of that. You know, we 70 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 2: didn't have two forty, you know, we had five hundred. 71 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,919 Speaker 2: So the authors, I think it's it's different, but it's 72 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 2: also just it's doing the same thing in a different 73 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 2: way and just enjoying the business of creativity. I found it. 74 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 2: I had a lark, you know, like I was in 75 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 2: the sandpit. Really, that was probably the best way to 76 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 2: describe it. 77 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 3: Butty, you talked about things you like doing. I like 78 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 3: walking up the street. I live in Free and walked 79 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 3: up to Essex Street Cinemas last year and plucked myself 80 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 3: down to see your movie The Hardest Line Docco, which 81 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: was unreal, and the aid of various ages of people 82 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 3: watching the Midnight Oil movie were it was incredible. There 83 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 3: were fans older than me I'm fifty nine, and there 84 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 3: was some twenty somethings as well. That's the appeal of 85 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 3: the Oil's music, isn't it. 86 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: Well. I mean, I think if you hang around long enough, 87 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 2: then you know, people interested to produce to their kids 88 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 2: or their younger brothers, this or whatever. It was interesting. 89 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I think when we came back out we 90 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 2: noticed that, you know, there was another generation of people 91 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 2: who had come to see us, and that's I mean, 92 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: that's just you don't expect that, and it's very very special. 93 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 2: But I think the other thing is a lot of 94 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 2: what we are on about, both the way that we played, 95 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 2: the way I approached the business of performing, and the 96 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,359 Speaker 2: things that we sing about. Unfortunately, some of them are 97 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 2: things which we were you know, wanting to raise the 98 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 2: flag on and maybe sort of say hey, this is 99 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 2: what we think. And there's still stuff that's very important. 100 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: So in some ways it's like, oh god, are we 101 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 2: still singing about this? But in other ways you realize 102 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: it's actually, you know, historically speaking, probably a pretty short 103 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: period of times. So there's a relevance there also, which 104 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 2: counts for us. And I think finally, last but not least, 105 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 2: I carried this through with what I'm doing. Martin has 106 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 2: Jim and Robb doing their own ways like it's the 107 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: biggest obvious statement of the bleeding obvious you've ever heard. 108 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 2: But it was always about the music and the message 109 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 2: and yeah, you know, if that's still got juice and 110 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: it still cuts through, then you're going to get it 111 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: to people no matter what age they are or where 112 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 2: they live. 113 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Blue sky Mining for one turns thirty five 114 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: this year. It contains one of the most important songs 115 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: to this state ever, you know. I mean they should 116 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: teach that in school, really, Blue sky Mine and the 117 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: history of whitnomen, so that we never see anything like 118 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 1: that again. Peter Garrett, it has been lovely to chat 119 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: to you. The Alter Egos February twenty eighth that the 120 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: East Perth Power Station. You can get tickets through Perthfestival 121 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: dot com AU. Look forward to seeing you in town. 122 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: No, we're excited about it's going to be a block. 123 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 2: Thanks guys. Good to young again.