🙏 Jonesy & Amanda Pay Tribute To Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst

Midnight Oil co-founder and legendary drummer Rob Hirst has died after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts here more Gold one on one point
seven podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Playlists and listen live on the free iHeart app. You're
listening to the Jonesy and Demanda podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
To Rob Hurst, friend of the show, drummer of Midnight Oil.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
We just learned that he passed away. He's had an
illness for some time, which we're aware of, but that
doesn't make it any easier to hear the news that
he's passed away. It was it was a great guy, wasn't.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
He a fabulous, fabulous top fella.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Feeling for everyone who will just be reeling at the
news of his passing in.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
A Coziosco when he used to do Coziosco, used to say,
it was so hard to do that song because he's
bashing the drums. And if you ever get a chance
to watch Red Sales in the Sunset, but they filmed
in Sydney Harbor, you watch.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
Rob Hurst and you'll know that Rob Hurst is the
drummer's drummer.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
I always had the hots for his big rot him
to cover up.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
He loved him from afar, but when I met him,
he was just that to be in his orbit. He's funny,
he's smart, he's brilliant. Such sad news to.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
The whole family. Our condolences, Slate