THE irony of Brendan Mitchell's medical problem earlier this year was not lost on The Dead Livers band member yesterday..... the band's pedal steel player, who lived in Melbourne, had a liver transplant at the Austin Hospital. At the Hotel Warrnambool yesterday for the regional launch of the band's Reaching to the Western Sky CD, Mitchell said he was fortunate to have had only a two-week wait for the transplant. "Because I had cancer I got it quickly," he said."As far as I was concerned it was very easy: I woke up and I had a new liver." The member of the seven-piece country outfit said he found the connection between his band name and his liver transplant ironic and "very embarrassing". "The name of the band came off a flyer advertising the Station Hotel in Prahran (Melbourne). (It said) `come to the Station Hotel where the dead livers come out' and someone said that would be a good name of a band." Yesterday Mitchell described his health as "terrific".. . . (Report: TANYA WATERSON. Picture: GLEN WATSON)
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