At the end of 1994, in the freshly democratised South Africa, a concert was held in Johannesburg with what for the time in SA was a pretty impressive line up. I went, excited to see Sting and my personal favourite, Johnny Clegg (at the time still playing as Johnny Clegg & Savuka)

Midnight Oil were on the bill, but most South African's were ignorant of the music they made other than the song Bed's Are Burning, and then only because it was banned on SA radio for years.

When they came on, first with two didgeridoo players taking centre stage alone for probably ten minutes, and then Peter Garrett bursting on stage to play a song I later learned was called Truganinni, I was, to put it mildly, blown away. Never before, or since, (now that I think about it) has a band taken my breath away for close to an hour as they did that night.

Since then, thanks to Al, I have been lucky enough to discover how much incredible music is made in Australia and a very large precentage of what I listen to daily is from Aussie. But I will never forget that night... Peter was shouting "Apart HATE is dead! Apart HATE is dead!!!" He had the crowd in a joyous frenzy...