Strict Rules: The Blackfella – Whitefella Tour
Andrew McMillan
Andrew has been invited to participate in the 2009 Sydney, Melbourne,
Alice Springs and Brisbane Writers’ Festivals
Its 1986, Midnight Oil and the Warrumpi Band hit the road for a 6 week tour through some of the remotest communites in the Australian outback. An aspiring music journalist hitches a ride, ostensibly to sell cassettes and T-shirts. Strct Rules: The Blackfella-Whitefella Tour is the story of that trip.
“In the Western Desert of Australia the land takes hostages. Freedom is regained slowly, often imperceptibly: vanities must be shed, wisdom must be drawn, humility learned. Time moves forward, but only in grinding tectonic shifts, unnoticed by squinting intruders with too much noise in their heads.
Twenty-two years ago the young men in Midnight Oil were held hostage by the land. It was only for four weeks, but none of us was ever the same again.”
from the foreword by
Midnight Oil drummer and songwriter, Rob Hirst
RRP $24.95 ISBN 978-09803904-2-1
198 x 128mm | 320 pages | 310 gms