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Peter Garrett Returns To The Stage

An icon is returning. Following nearly 15 years away from the stage, Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett has the performing itch again, stopping by The Gov this August with his new band.

An icon is returning. Following nearly 15 years away from the stage, Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett has the performing itch again. After leaving music in 2002 to focus on his political career, it seems that time in introspection spent while writing his memoir Big Blue Sky has been the catalyst for a new string of songs under a solo moniker.

Garrett’s first ever solo album, “A Version Of Now” takes the listener on a candid remembrance trail; the tone both stridently distinctive and unexpectedly tender, as one of the greatest frontmen in Australian rock reflects on his motives, his losses and gains and finds his resolve – surprise — utterly unbowed.

This is Peter Garrett as you’ve never heard him. Songs of love, songs of home and sweet memories chafe against songs of relentless resistance with, as ever, a steely eye on a better future.

Joining Garrett on this tour will be his band The Alter Egos featuring, Martin Rotsey (the Oils) on guitar, Mark Wilson (Jet) on bass and Peter Luscombe (Rockwiz, Paul Kelly, Black Sorrows) on drums. Completing the line up are Rosa Morgan (Red Ghost) on keyboards, and upcoming Australian blues singer-songwriter Abbe May, who will be opening for Garrett around the country. Is it too much to hope for some awkward dancing?

Peter Garret & The Alter Egos will perform at The Gov on Saturday, 6 August. Tickets go on sale June 3 through Oztix.

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