Frontman Peter Garrett departs Midnight Oil
ByDec 2, 2002 11:00 PM
Peter Garrett, longtime frontman of the politically charged Australian rock group Midnight Oil, is leaving the band to pursue other interests.
Peter Garrett, longtime frontman of the politically charged Australian rock group Midnight Oil, is leaving the band to pursue other interests.
“The last 25 years have been incredibly fulfilling for me, and I leave with the greatest respect for the whole of Midnight Oil,” he said in a statement posted on the band’s official website. “The band has brought a lot of pleasure and meaning to people’s lives, including my own. Who could ask for more? But it is time for me to move on and immerse myself in those things which are of deep concern to me and which I have been unable to fully apply myself up to now.”
The band’s other members--Bones Hilman, Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie, Martin Rotsey and Gary Morris--"plan to continue making music together in another guise at some point down the track,” the statement said. “We’ve had a unique relationship and special chemistry for many years, one too good to lose.”
Midnight Oil is best known for its late 1980s albums “Diesel and Dust” (which produced the hit “Beds are Burning") and “Blue Sky Mining.”
The group’s 14th studio album, “Capricornia,” hit stores in February.