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In my last two years of High School two significant things happened, effectively determining the course my life would take. When I was 16 I really had no idea what it was that I wanted to do. We’re all supposed to have that figured out by the time you leave school, I didn’t and I had very few options. All I knew was that I loved music and I was really good at English. In some ways, that has been enough. The two things that are the foundations of what I call the Gaza Strip occurred within these last two years of school. Firstly, during a Midnight Oil show in late 1990, I switched places with Peter Garrett and thought: “That’s it, that’s what I want to do”. It combined all the things I loved or was good at and this whole idea of changing the world, or at least some of it, really appealed to me. Why not? The second thing was REM’s Tourfilm. I bought it and then I watched it. Then I watched it again and this time I studied it and by then I knew for sure. I wasn’t alone. There were a