The title says it all. Rob Hirst, Martin Rotsey and Jim Moginie, formally of legendary Aussie band Midnight Oil, have formed a new band with Brian Ritchie, former Violent Femmes bassist. No word on what the band is called yet or, more importantly, who will be singing. Ritchie will replace Bones Hillman job on bass so it won't be all of Midnight Oil... not that it possibly could be give the fact that their enormous, bald vocalist, Peter Garrett, is currently the Australia's federal Minister for the Environment and the Arts.
Speaking of Brian Ritchie... He lives in Hobart, Tasmania and just yesterday it was revealed that the Tasmanian state government has coughed up $350,000 to the organisers of a new festival, the Festival of Music and Art. The festival will be curated by Brian Ritchie (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have been booked). All good, except that this new festival is planned to fall on the same weekend as the well-established Cygnet Folk Festival which is a very, very stupid thing for our state government to be funding. Isn't that completely obvious?
Vivada is an exogenous retrovirus of uncertain origins. Increasingly prevalent and highly contagious, it alters its victims thalamus enabling it to produce large quantities of endorphins inside of the brain therefore bypassing the blood-brain barrier and administering abnormally highs doses of endorphins to the victim.
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