The Life and Times of Peter Green
Archive: 1 September - 13 September 1997
September 1st
The death of Lady Di is still depressing everyone. The weather outside is Grey and depressing, that's how we feel too I guess. So many people crying on the streets and in the supermarkets.Sept 2nd
Happy Birthday Spock.....create a great 'drag" birthday card of him...and email it to his work. Turned out really well.....no doubt he'll cop heaps for it.Go to IT on Greville Street, one of our favourite stores and buy some sixties pillows for his present. We all meet up at Katies place for drinks, Maz from BCo is there, can't wait to see the band live again. Katie has booked the Casino Gold Cinema- it has huge armchair seats that fold forward and pop up at the front. Very comfy. We watch "Face Off"....have a small gamble at the casino and lose.....no more money for Kennet we go home.
Sept 3rd
Neil has been busy signing some of the CH books for friends and the crew. I was taken back as expected to hand them out, not get one. My copy had some quote like "Now Pete don't get any ideas, you know too many of our secrets". Brought a smile to my face.Discover a new yogurt. It's "d'lite" by Ski and is called Honey Buzz. This cool combination of honey and yogurt. All those live acidophilus (is that how you spell it?) must be happy in this honey culture as it tastes out of this world! The ARIA awards are getting closer. Looks like all the boys will be in town for the awards...still working out some final details.
Sept 4th
Fax EG for the Largest Living Things free plug in The Age...it's one of my weekly rituals. Call in and see Paul, George "The Largest Living Things" drummer is there as well, nice guy, and ladies...he's single! Paul shells out a Gold Cd award for The Recurring Dream Album- it's going to be used as a fundraiser for the FrenzCom domain etc. FrenzCom will also be home to The Largest Living Things website and yes expect some sound on the site. Paul and the band members all want to contribute- so expect to see notes from them etc. The LLT will be a fun project and for once we can all be there at the start. The site address is http://www.frenzcom/LLT/ but the site won't be up for a few weeks, so give Deb a chance, the poor girl is flat out with all the other projects. As soon as the fundraiser items are all listed Deb will no doubt announce them. The Famous for 16 minutes site will have an autographed Famous/16 tshirt. Many of the strange and godamn sexy people you read about on the site will autograph the shirt.The Grey Ghost goes in and has it's new anti-pollution muffler attached, it's silver and used to be the tail pipe of the Jupiter 2 (that's our theory). After we drop it in we walk past this great antique shop that is closing down, and starring at me, large as life, a huge stone Gryphon on a pedestal. It looks at least a hundred years old. I've just got my tax return back, and even after the new muffler I have some cash left. Call the shop and haggle like hell for a price. Luck is on my side, all the items are 60% off. Put a deposit down, it was just too tempting. The scary part is that the Gryphons face is identical to my tattoo.
Sept 5th
Go in with Sarah from Mushroom and get some of our umatics and VHS tapes converted over for Mushroom to use on their 25th Anniversary TV special. It will be shown in Australia on Dec. 15th, on channel 9 at 8.30 and will run for 2 hours. I'm hassling everyone to vote for Crowded House in the Australian Artist of the Year Award, for the ARIAS. It's the only public vote, and to be honest the only threat of a win is by Savage Garden. I know so many of you will pass this by but please if you live in Australia, make the effort. The phone number is 0055 29799 Crowded House are number 18 on the voting list. If you phone, you and two friends could win a trip to the ARIAS. All votes must be phoned in bySeptember 6th (midnight).
Call now....thanks.Dougald is back from the Supertramp tour (snore)....he's looking good and sounding sassy. He's only here for a few weeks and then back to Europe for a few more dates. Great photo of Mark Hart in the Supertramp Programme.
September 6th
What a horrible week, Mother Theresa died today. Maybe i don't want to be the Mother Theresa of Crowded House- I want to be a wise old Gryphon instead.... live long and prosper.September 7th
As we drive down Chapel Street we spot Jj eating brekky at GLOBE. He sees the Phoenix (which is never subtle) and catches up with us at the Elephant. The new songs are coming together and we plot his showcase gig which should be early November upstairs at Revolver. After brekky we head to Rosemaree's copying centre and spend two hours getting club stuff out of the way... Arrive home to find an email saying that the Lost in Space Movie will now be out in Australia in June '98. Hope it's worth the 85 million spent on it.....it has even more effects then ID4....(and easily a better script).September 8th
Mel from ode to a Goldfish sends me their EP. It has a Melbourne return address, have the girls moved to Melbourne? Speak to Paul about the LLT Ep and all the parts are nearly ready, so we put it into production soon. Loads of club mail today- so many new members, also mail for Skyhooks which is really wild. I guess music is eternal. Tomorrow is chart day, hope the Jets new album has turned around, it's a really good record- what the fuck is wrong with Australian radio? I just wish they'd stop playing shit like John Farnham, thank the lord for JJJ and RRR.Had some nice letters about Chris Bourkes CH book, we spend a huge part of the day sending them out to people. They are such a fat book, real awkward as far as mailing....but it's nice to have some quanity and quality.