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Brian Ritchie Oils new Break band
Members of Midnight Oil and US band Violent Femmes have teamed up to form a new surf rock band, The Break.
Midnight Oil founding members Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey and Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie have united over their shared love of old surf music.
“It just seemed very exciting that we loved this music from our childhood, the surf music, and decided to use all our energies to try to play surf music with a new twist,” Hirst told AAP.
“After all, Midnight Oil started at a surf pub down at Narrabeen Beach on the northern beaches of Sydney all those years ago and one of our earliest songs was Surfing With a Spoon on our first album, and our first audience was really a surf audience.”
The four men first met when Midnight Oil and Violent Femmes were touring the US in the 1980s and ’90s and shared a tour manager.
After Midnight Oil performed at last year’s Sound Relief concert, they decided to start a new band, and invited Ritchie, who had moved to Hobart.
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