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Former Midnight Oil frontman and current federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett, will reunite with his old band to perform at the flood and bushfire benefit gig in March.
The Oils are already talking up their star recruit, whom they hope will generate added publicity for the ailing group.
But once the once-prominent rockers are back in the spotlight, Mr Garrett will be quietly shunted aside, where he will impress no-one in some irrelevant, ultimately soul-destroying, backstage role.
The minister spoke to ABC News about the concert with his trademark good humour. “I’ve been really busy and focussed on my job in the Government as a Minister,” Mr Garrett quipped.
This month the minister launched a brief Blue Sky Mine reunion tour during which the song’s subject, one-time asbestos miner CSR, was showered with millions of dollars of taxpayers money.
