peter garrett

Musos Say The Darndest Things!

2:27PM Busty St Clair | This morning on Triple J, Daniel Johns may or may not have defamed everyone’s favourite ex-muso-greenie pollie Peter Garrett, by suggesting he’s a bit of a pot head. He [Bono] buzzed me over to the house that he was staying at in Sydney and asked if I’d play the demos and it was really one of the most surreal moments in my life. It was me and Natalie and Peter Garrett and Bono laying on Bono’s bed smoking joints listening to Young Modern demos. Silly Daniel! The good folk over at Crikey figure that according to Daniel’s story, Garrett would’ve been engaging in Spliff Politics in around November last year, while he was shadow parliamentary secretary for reconciliation and the arts. Of course this allegation doesn’t look too good for Mr Garrett, (despite the fact most people who support him wouldn’t mind a bit of a smoke anyway), so Daniel from Silverchair was forced to recant on Crikey earlier today. ”In an interview I did this morning on Triple J I made a stupid joke. It’s just been brought to my attention that some people in the media have taken my dumb joke seriously so I want to set the record straight. At no time have I ever “smoked a joint” with Bono or Peter Garrett. They are both well known to be very anti-drugs so that’s why I assumed everybody would know I was joking when I made that comment. Clearly that wasn’t the case and I feel sick that I might have caused embarrassment to two people who I admire so much. ”I was fortunate enough to once get to play them some of my demo’s but I swear that no joints were involved. I guess I felt a bit like a namedropper mentioning them on the radio so that’s why I added a silly throwaway joke. I accept that drug use is no laughing matter and I apologize sincerely for any confusion or harm I’ve caused. Just by the way, this is one of the reasons why I hate doing interviews. I really should just shut up and stick to singing.” Touche. More »