Diesel and Dust— Midnight Oil’s sixth studio release — was a global hit, to the band’s surprise. “When you think about us singing about dispossessed indigenous people, you wouldn’t think that would be a record that anyone would want to hear,” guitarist Jim Moginie, one of the ban...
Midnight Oil ROCK · 1987 Preview “The main thing we were focused on when we went to do Diesel was to try and get the songs down in as simple and uncomplicated form as we possibly could,” Midnight Oil vocalist Peter Garrett tells Apple Music. “Particularly the ones that were ...
The band responded to – and helped stimulate – growing environmental and anti-nuclear movements in the 1980s (including frontman Peter Garrett’s first foray into politics with the Nuclear Disarmament Party). From the mid-80s Midnight Oil turned to First Nations justice, and wo...
Midnight Oil was formed in 1972 and found global success in the mid-'80s, garnering a reputation for political activism. They initially split in 2002 but reunited briefly in 2005 and 2009 before returning in full force in 2016. Garrett was a senior minister in the Australian government between...
projects over the years ahead. They remain very open to recording new music together in future and supporting causes in which they believe,but this will be their last tour. It will see them performing classic Midnight Oil songs from across their repertoire while also showcasing some urgent new...
“Sex On Fire.” Singer Caleb Followill explained, “We know it’s a sensitive thing so we aren’t playing that song.” But Midnight Oil included “Beds Are Burning” in their set. “These songs stand in their own right, they stand in their own time,” singer Peter Garrett told ...