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RESIST. THE FINAL TOUR. 2022

Monday 3 October Hordern Pavilion, Sydney, NSW

Saturday 1 October Fellows Oval ANU Campus, Canberra, ACT

Wednesday 28 September Luna Park Big Top, Sydney, NSW

Sunday 25 September  ** CHANGE OF VENUE**  – RAC ARENA, Perth, WA

Friday 23 September Bernard Park Busselton, Busselton, WA

Saturday 17 September Stompem Ground, Broome, WA

Wednesday 14 September Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

Monday 12 September Palais Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

Thursday 8 September TBS Stadium, New Plymouth, NZ

Tuesday 6 September Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, NZ

Saturday 3 September Auckland Spark Arena, NZ

Thursday 1 September Christchurch Arena, NZ

Saturday 27 August Darwin Convention, Darwin, NT

Thursday 25 August Munro Martin Parklands, Cairns, QLD

18-20 August Mundi Mundi Bash – Broken Hill, NSW

Saturday 16 July VIEILLES CHARRUES FESTIVAL, Carhaix, France

Thursday 14 July NUITS DE FOURVIÈRE, Grand Théâtre, Lyon, France

Tuesday 12 July L’OLYMPIA, Paris, France

Saturday 9 July Camden Roundhouse, London, UK

Wednesday 6 July Leipzig Parkbühne, Leipzig, Germany

Monday 4 July Berlin Zitadelle, Berlin, Germany

Saturday 2 July Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Wednesday 29 June Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium

Saturday 25 June The Theatre at National Harbor, Oxon Hill, MD

Wednesday 22 June Franklin Music Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Sunday 19 June Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY

Thursday 16 June Roadrunner, Boston, MA

Monday 13 June Massey Hall, Toronto, ON

Friday 10 June Riviera Theatre, Chicago, IL

Tuesday 7 June Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA

Saturday 4 June Fox Theater, Oakland, CA

Wednesday 1 June Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, BC

Sunday 24 April All Saints Estate, Rutherglen, VIC

Thursday 21 April Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW

Tuesday 19 April Stage 88, Canberra, ACT – CANCELLED

Friday 15 April 2022 Bluesfest | Byron Bay NSW

Wednesday 13 April Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD

Saturday 9 April Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast, QLD

Wednesday 6 April Convention Centre Arena, Cairns, QLD – CANCELLED

Saturday 2 April Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT – CANCELLED

Wednesday 30 March Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA

Sunday 27 March Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC

Saturday 5 March 2022 Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC

Wednesday 2 March 2022 WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW

Saturday 26 February 2022 Heifer Station, Orange, NSW

Wednesday 23 February Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, NSW

Friday 28 + Monday 31 January | MONA FOMA

Sunday 23 + Tuesday 25 January | MONA FOMA

Wed 17 Feb Oxford Art Factory | Sydney, NSW “Blue Meanies” warm-up gig

Thu 25 Feb Enmore Theatre | Sydney, NSW

Sun 28 Feb Sirromet Wines| Mount Cotton, QLD

Sat 6 Mar Womadelaide | Adelaide, SA

Mon 8 Mar Womadelaide | Adelaide, SA

Sat 13 Mar Hope Estate | Hunter Valley, NSW

Wed 17 Mar Stage 88 | Canberra, ACT

Sat 20 Mar Mt Duneed Estate | Geelong, VIC

Thu 23 May Anita’s Theatre | Wollongong, NSW

Mon 27 May Royal Theatre | Canberra, ACT

Thu 18 July Big Red Bash | Birdsville, QLD

UK + EUROPE

Sun 9 June O2 Apollo | Manchester, UK

Tue 11 June Olympia | Dublin, Ireland

Thu 13 June O2 Brixton Academy | London, UK

Sat 15 June Festi’neuch Openair Festival | Neuchatel, Switzerland

Mon 17 June Stadtpark | Hamburg, Germany

Wed 19 June Porta Nigra | Trier, Germany

Fri 21 June Zeltfestival | Mannheim, Germany

Sat 22 June Rock the Ring | Hinwil, Switzerland

Thu 27 June Grand Rex | Paris, France

Sat 29 June Festival Retro C Trop | Tilloloy, France

Mon 1 July Tollwood Festival | Munich, Germany

Wed 3 July Killesberg | Stuttgart, Germany

Fri 5 July Rock Zottegem | Zottegem, Belgium

Sat 6 July Zitadelle | Mainz, Germany

Tue 9 July Les Nuits De Fourviere Festival | Lyon, France

Thu 11 July Guitare en Scene Festival | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, France

Sat 13 July Amphitheatre | Gelsenkirchen, Germany

THE GREAT CIRCLE 2017 WORLD TOUR

South america.

Tue 25 Apr Pepsi on Stage | Porto Alegre

Thu 27 Apr Teatro Positivo | Curitiba

SAT 29 APR ESPAÇO DAS AMERICAS | SÃO PAULO

Sun 30 Apr Vivo Rio | Rio De Janeiro

Tue 2 May NET Live | Brasilia

USA / CANADA

Sat 6 May Center Stage | Atlanta, GA

Sun 7 May Beale Street Music Festival | Memphis, TN

Tue 9 May The Filmore | Silver Spring, MD

Thu 11 May House of Blues | Boston, MA

Sat 13 May Webster Hall | New York City, NY

Sun 14 May Webster Hall | New York City, NY

Tue 16 May Keswick Theatre | Glenside, PA

Thu 18 May The Vic | Chicago, IL

Sat 20 May Danforth Music Hall | Toronto, Canada

Tue 23 May Paramount Theatre | Denver, CO

Thu 25 May The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA

Sat 27 May Fox Theater | Oakland, CA

Mon 29 May Revolution Hall | Portland, OR

Wed 31 May Moore Theatre | Seattle, WA

Fri 2 June Malkin Bowl | Vancouver, Canada (19+)

EUROPE / UK

Wed 21 June E-Werk | Cologne, Germany

Fri 23 June Paradiso | Amsterdam, Holland

Sun 25 June Huxleys Neue Welt | Berlin, Germany

Tue 27 June Amager Bio | Copenhagen, Denmark

Thu 29 June Rockafeller Music Hall | Oslo, Norway

Sat 1 July Furuviksparken | Gävle, Sweden

Tue 4 July Hammersmith Eventim Apollo | London, UK

Thu 6 July Olympia | Paris, France

Fri 7 July Festival de Beauregard | HÉROUVILLE-Saint-Claire, France

Sun 9 July Les Deferlantes Festival | Argeles-sur-Mer, France

Wed 12 July Volkshaus | Zurich, Switzerland

Fri 14 July Musilac | Aix Les Bains, France

Sun 16 July Les Vieilles Charrues | Carhaix, France

Tue 18 July Batschkapp | Frankfurt, Germany

Wed 19 July Le Paléo Festival Nyon Music Festival | Nyon, Switzerland

Fri 21 July Colours of Ostrava | Ostrava, Czech Republic

Sun 23 July Hammersmith Eventim Apollo | London, UK

Tue 25 July Olympia | Paris, France

Sat 29 July Marks Park | Johannesburg, South Africa

Wed 16 Aug The Star Theatre | Singapore

USA / CANADA (2ND RUN)

Sat 19 Aug The Greek | Los Angeles, CA

Mon 21 Aug Terminal 5 | New York, NY

Wed 23 Aug Place Des Arts | Montreal, QC

Fri 25 Aug Budweiser Stage | Toronto, ON

Sun 27 Aug House of Blues | Cleveland, OH

Tue 29 Aug First Avenue | Minneapolis, MN

NEW ZEALAND

Sat 9 Sep Spark Arena (formerly Vector Arena) | Auckland, NZ (All Ages)

Mon 11 Sep Horncastle Arena | Christchurch, NZ (All Ages)

Thu 13 April Selinas | Sydney

Mon 2 Oct ANZAC Oval | Alice Springs, NT

Wed 4 Oct Darwin Amphitheatre | Darwin, NT

Fri 6 Oct Tank Arts Centre | Cairns, QLD

Sat 7 Oct Kuranda Amphitheatre | Cairns, QLD

Tue 10 Oct Townsville Ent. Centre | Townsville, QLD (All Ages)

Thu 12 Oct Great Western Hotel | Rockhampton, QLD

Sat 14 Oct Big Pineapple Fields | Sunshine Coast, QLD

Sun 15 Oct Riverstage | Brisbane, QLD (All Ages)

Tue 17 Oct Riverstage | Brisbane, QLD (All Ages)

Thu 19 Oct CEX Coffs International Stadium Forecourt | Coffs Harbour, NSW

Sat 21 Oct Hope Estate | Hunter Valley, NSW

Tue 24 Oct AIS Arena | Canberra, ACT (All Ages)

Thu 26 Oct The Village Green Adelaide Oval | Adelaide, SA (All Ages)

Sat 28 Oct Perth Arena | Perth, WA (All Ages)

Sun 29 Oct Fremantle Arts Centre | Fremantle, WA

Wed 1 Nov Derwent Entertainment Centre | Hobart, TAS (All Ages)

Fri 3 Nov Gateway Lakes | Wodonga, VIC

Sat 4 Nov Hanging Rock | Macedon Ranges, VIC

Mon 6 Nov Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Melbourne, VIC (All Ages)

Wed 8 Nov Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Melbourne, VIC (All Ages)

Sat 11 Nov The Domain | Sydney, NSW

Mon 13 Nov WIN Entertainment Centre | Wollongong, NSW (All Ages)

Wed 15 Nov Sidney Myer Music Bowl | Melbourne, VIC (All Ages)

Fri 17 Nov The Domain | Sydney, NSW

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Midnight Oil on Resist and their last ever tour: ‘We mean it, man!’

As the Australian band embarks on their final live shows, Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie reflect on loss, legacy and quitting while they’re ahead

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W hen Midnight Oil announced their final tour last November – a once-more-with-feeling run of dates around the country to support their 13th studio album, Resist – founding guitarist Jim Moginie was typically met with three responses.

The first was a scoff of disbelief, usually with a reference to John Farnham’s never-ending farewell shows. The second, more humorous, was that the group should have quit while they were ahead in 1981 – “and that was from some of my friends,” Moginie says.

But the third response was a shrug of acceptance. Moginie, 66 in May, is the youngest surviving member of the band; the eldest, singer Peter Garrett, is 69 in April. There will be no long goodbyes.

“We’re more like Johnny Rotten [than Johnny Farnham] — we mean it, man!” Garrett says, invoking a line from the Sex Pistols’ anthem God Save The Queen. In their early years, tour handbills promised “The Oils are coming”. Now, 50 years after their rough beginnings, they’re leaving – the stage at least.

More than any other band, Midnight Oil have remained part of Australia’s cultural conversation. Their breakthrough classic from 1982, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – with its indelible hits Power and the Passion and US Forces – spent 177 consecutive weeks on the Australian charts.

It opened the doors to a global audience. Their 1986 album, Diesel and Dust, preceded by a tour through remote Indigenous communities, sold 4m copies worldwide. Its opening track, the land rights anthem Beds Are Burning, is listed in the US Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of 500 songs that shaped the form.

But it was in the live arena where Midnight Oil built their reputation, not just for galvanising shows, but headline-grabbing protest actions: stopping Manhattan traffic with a gig outside the Exxon building in 1990; playing to a global audience of billions at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in “Sorry” suits, campaigning for a government apology to the stolen generations.

After a long hiatus caused by Garrett’s pursuit of a second career in federal politics, the band’s resumption for the Great Circle tour in 2017 saw them play across 16 countries to an audience of half a million. They remained a visceral experience, where the extreme physicality of the performances (including Garrett’s unique dance step) was an extension of the sharp angles and energy of the music.

To continue, he says, would be testing not only fate but the band’s reputation. For Garrett, it is a relatively easy call. “Only a fool would go on believing that they can bring the same level of effort to it – when they were born in 1953 – as they did 25 years ago,” he says.

Moginie won’t name them, but he shudders at the memory of some older groups he’s seen. “You don’t want to be up there, playing the song you did 40 years ago, and everyone’s heading for the hotdog stands,” he says.

Hovering over the conversation is the ghost of Bones Hillman, Midnight Oil’s bass player since 1987. Hillman died on 7 November 2020, one week after the release of the Makarrata Project , the band’s first album for nearly two decades and the first to go to No 1 since Blue Sky Mining in 1990.

Hillman was the youngest member of Midnight Oil, and therefore in theory “the least likely to be leaving first”, according to Garrett, whose grief at the loss of his bandmate is still palpably raw.

But Hillman, who hid his illness from the band, was a road hog. “He never saw a leaf of lettuce he didn’t run a mile from, he never met a beer or hamburger he didn’t fall in love with, and he smoked right through to the end,” Garrett says.

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Garrett tends to the view that even if Hillman were still alive, the band would have come to the same decision to retire from touring. But for Moginie, his death was “right at the heart of it”.

When he listens back to Resist and The Makarrata Project – both recorded in a six-week recording session in late 2019, with Resist’s release shelved for more than a year due to the pandemic – it’s Hillman that dominates.

“All I can hear now when I hear it is him – his playing, his sweet voice, his driving bass,” Moginie says. “It’s funny. We’re all very co-dependent; I can’t remember a time when he wasn’t in the band, even though we had two bass players before him.”

On stage, Hillman has been replaced by Adam Ventoura, who has a more rugged edge to his playing, reminiscent of Hillman’s predecessor Peter Gifford. To compensate for the loss of Hillman’s harmony vocals, the band recruited singers Liz Stringer and Leah Flanagan.

Their presence softens the band slightly, and is in keeping with the sound of Resist, which leans into the folk-rock tradition of protest singing. A few songs summon some of their old crunch, but mostly this is a kinder, gentler, more sombre Midnight Oil.

Nearly a decade after he left behind a second career in politics, including various stints as environment, arts and education minister in the Rudd and Gillard governments, Garrett confesses he has struggled to hold on to his natural optimism.

Resist’s cover art is styled like a temperature graph; most of the songs deal with the climate emergency and environmental collapse. The new single, At the Time Of Writing, damns what Garrett labels “inconsequential leadership, the lack of serious adults in the room”.

“I still retain my optimism underneath, and I firmly accept that within the time zone of the decade or so [we have left] to hold warming to tolerable levels, that we won’t necessarily end up consigning our successors to an absolute living inferno,” he says.

“But there’s every chance we will, if we don’t get on with things and get serious about change, and that’s a very sobering thought for someone who’s got kids – I haven’t got grandkids, but the others have.”

And while careful to keep the band’s frustration at being unable to perform in perspective of the human catastrophe of the pandemic, Garrett reserves special venom for the abandonment of the live music sector.

“The pandemic showed once and for all that the political classes neither understand nor have a great deal of empathy for the performance industry and the arts in general, even though eventually some money was wheedled out of them,” he says.

“How is it that we were visibly discriminated against, while the Barmy Army could slobber over one another together, drinking beer and rubbing their tummies together [at the cricket]? It wasn’t lost on any performers, and hopefully it wasn’t lost on our audiences that we were at the very bottom of the pecking order.”

The band is adamant that they will continue in some form, that they have only retired from live performance. Moginie, always the studio boffin of the band, jokes that they may yet write their version of Sgt Pepper – before clarifying it’s his least favourite Beatles album.

“I don’t think we’re going to be sad about it at all. I don’t think we’ll all be in tears hugging each other on stage, although that might happen. But I know we’ll all be doing stuff together, it’s just what we do,” Moginie says.

But it will be different. “This is a band of musicians and writers and performers who will all continue to do that in different guises, so long as we can breathe a breath,” Garrett says. “What shape and form that takes, that’s anybody’s guess.”

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Midnight Oil Confirm Final Tour and New Album

Veteran Australian group Midnight Oil have announced that their forthcoming tour in support of a new album,  Resist , will be their farewell road trip.

Their 15th LP, which deals with ecological issues, is to be released early next year, with tour  dates across Australia and New Zealand set to take place between Jan. 23 and May 13. A music video for the record's lead song, “Rising Seas,” can be viewed below, along with a complete track listing.

“We all know time refuses to stand still for anyone,” vocalist Peter Garrett said in a statement. “[B]ut after many years together the band’s spirit is deep, the music and words are strong, and our ideas and actions as bold as we can make them. We’ve reached people in ways we never could have imagined. Our desire to create and speak out is undimmed.” He continued: “We hope everyone who hears this album and gets to one of the shows will come away charged up about the planet’s future, saying, ‘Why stop now?’ Having always tackled every tour like it’s the last, this time it actually will be.”

Guitarist Jim Moginie noted: “These will be sad and beautiful gigs but luckily we’re still capable of blowing the roof off any stage, and that’s what we intend to do… We stand as one, dependent on each other and grateful in all the important ways that make great bands great.” Fellow guitarist Martin Rotsey added: “A huge thank you to all our fans around the world. We’ve shared so much together from the swelter of Sydney pubs to magical nights under starry skies. Your energy took us further than we could ever have dreamed.”

The band – whose late bassist Bones Hillman is heard on Resist – said it's possible they could continue working as a group. “Each of the members will continue their own projects over the years ahead,” they reported. “They remain very open to recording new music together in future and supporting causes in which they believe.”

Midnight Oil 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 2007 and 2013 after first being elected to the House of Representatives in 2004.

Watch Midnight Oil’s ‘Rising Seas’ Video

Midnight Oil, 'Resist' Track Listing

1. "Rising Seas" 2. "The Barka-Darling River" 3. "Tarkine" 4. "At the Time of Writing" 5. "Nobody’s Child" 6. "To the Ends of the Earth" 7. "Reef" 8. "We Resist" 9. "Lost At Sea" 10. "Undercover" 11. "We Art Not Afraid" 12. "Last Frontier"

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Midnight Oil announces new album ‘Resist,’ final tour — but not end of the band

Midnight Oil today announced plans to release its new studio album — a 12-song collection titled Resist — next year and mount what it’s calling the band’s final tour, consisting of more than 20 headlining and festival dates in Australia and New Zealand in early 2022.

The Oils insist this does not mark the end of the band, just the end of touring — and the group says it is considering “a handful of international concerts,” subject to COVID restrictions.

As guitarist Jim Moginie put it in the band’s announcement :

“These will be sad and beautiful gigs, but luckily we’re still capable of blowing the roof off any stage and that’s what we intend to do. You could call this a farewell tour, but Midnight Oil will still continue in some form or other as we’re brothers, family. We stand as one, dependent on each other and grateful in all the important ways that make great bands great.”

The Oils’ statement says the band’s members “remain very open to recording new music together in (the) future and supporting causes in which they believe, but this will be their last tour.”

The new Warne Livesey-produced album, preceded by recently released first single and opening track “Rising Seas,” is reportedly due out in March, though the band did not specify a release date in its announcement. They say it will become available for pre-order beginning Tuesday, Nov. 30.

The Oils recorded Resist alongside 2020’s The Makarrata Project — a collaboration with First Nation musicians — pre-COVID, and prior to the death last year of bassist Bones Hillman, who appears on the new record. (Bassist Adam Ventoura is touring with the Oils.) The album, the band says, “engages with the issues of today and tomorrow,” as evidence already by the climate-change-themed “Rising Seas.”

Frontman Peter Garrett says:

“We all know time refuses to stand still for anyone but after many years together the band’s spirit is deep, the music and words are strong, and our ideas and actions as bold as we can make them. We’ve reached people in ways we never could have imagined. Our desire to create and speak out is undimmed. We hope everyone who hears this album and gets to one of the shows will come away charged up about the planet’s future, saying ‘why stop now?’ Having always tackled every tour like it’s the last — this time it actually will be.”

Below, check out the album’s tracklist and cover art — and those final tour dates.

See the band’s website for presale information.

Midnight Oil, Resist

1. “Rising Seas” 2. “The Barka-Darling River” 3. “Tarkine” 4. “At the Time of Writing” 5. “Nobody’s Child” 6. “To the Ends of the Earth” 7. “Reef” 8. “We Resist” 9. “Lost At Sea” 10. “Undercover” 11. “We Art Not Afraid” 12. “Last Frontier”

Midnight Oil tour dates

AUSTRALIA Jan. 23: Mona Foma, Royal Park, Launceston, TAS Jan. 25: Mona Foma, Royal Park, Launceston, TAS Jan. 28: Mona Foma, Mona Lawns, Nipaluna/Hobart, TAS, Australia Jan. 31: Mona Foma, Mona Lawns, Nipaluna/Hobart, TAS Feb. 23: Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, NSW Feb. 26: Heifer Station, Orange, NSW March 2: WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW March 5: Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC March 9: Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC March 12: All Saints Estate, Rutherglen, VIC March 26: ikola Estate, Swan Valley, WA March 30: Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA April 2: Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT April 6: Convention Centre Arena, Cairns, QLD April 9: Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast, QLD April 13: Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD April 15: Bluesfest, Byron Bay, NSW April 19: Stage 88, Canberra, ACT April 21: Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW

NEW ZEALAND May 7: Christchurch Arena, Christchurch May 10: TSB Arena, Wellington May 13: Spark Arena, Auckland

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If you’ve never seen the Oils live and get the chance to on this last tour, I’d strongly recommend you take it. They are hands down one of the greatest live acts I’ve ever seen. And that’s coming from a grateful punter who’s been lucky enough to have caught The Stones, U2, Page & Plant, New Order, The Cure, Fleetwood Mac, Simple Minds, The Church and hundreds of other great artists. The power this band produces on stage really has to be seen to be believed.

Bummer if they do not do a proper farewell/final tour.

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Midnight Oil Announce Final Ever Tour + New Album ‘Resist’

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Nearly 50 years on from their founding, Midnight Oil will conduct their final ever Australian tour in February-April 2022.

The band have also announced their new album,  Resist , which features the recent single, ‘Rising Seas’.  Resist follows last year’s The Makarrata Project  and features the final recordings made with Midnight Oil bass player Bones Hillman, who passed away in November 2020.

Resist,  Midnight Oil’s 15th album, will be released in 2022. Pre orders begin at 12:01am AEDT on Tuesday 30th November. Head here.

The upcoming tour includes four A Day On the Green events and appearances at Mona Foma and Bluesfest. The Oils will kick off their headline run at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Wednesday, 23rd February, playing shows in metro and regional locations across NSW, VIC, WA, SA, NT, QLD and the ACT, before wrapping up at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena on Thursday 21st April.

“Having always tackled every tour like it’s the last, this time it actually will be,” said Peter Garrett. “These will be sad and beautiful gigs but luckily we’re still capable of blowing the roof off any stage and that’s what we intend to do,” said Jim Moginie, adding, “You could call this a farewell tour, but Midnight Oil will still continue in some form or other.”

Midnight Oil – The Final Tour 2022

Sunday 23rd & Tuesday 25th January – MONA FOMA, Royal Park, Launceston, TAS Tickets on sale Monday 6th December:  monafoma.net.au

Friday 28th & Monday 31st January – MONA FOMA, Mona Lawns, Nipaluna / Hobart, TAS Tickets on sale Monday 6th December:  monafoma.net.au

Wednesday 23rd February 2022 – Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Newcastle, NSW ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Saturday 26th February 2022 – Heifer Station, Orange, NSW * ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Wednesday 2nd March 2022 – WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Saturday 5th March 2022 – Mt Duneed Estate, Geelong, VIC * ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Wednesday 9th March 2022 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, VIC ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Saturday 12th March 2022 – All Saints Estate, Rutherglen, VIC * ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Saturday 26th March 2022 – Nikola Estate, Swan Valley, WA * ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Wednesday 30th March 2022 – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide, SA ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Saturday 2nd April 2022 – Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Wednesday 6th April 2022 – Convention Centre Arena, Cairns, QLD ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Saturday 9th April 2022 – Sunshine Coast Stadium, Sunshine Coast, QLD ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Wednesday 13th April 2022 – Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD ticketmaster.com.au  | Ph: 136 100

Friday 15th April 2022 Bluesfest | Byron Bay NSW Tickets on sale now:  bluesfest.com.au

Tuesday 19th April 2022 – Stage 88, Canberra, ACT ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

Thursday 21st April 2022 – Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, NSW ticketek.com.au  | Ph: 132 849

General Public On Sale begins Wednesday 1st December.

Midnight Oil Pre-Sale via  midnightoil.com . Runs 24 hours from Tuesday 30th November (Staggered times, website for details) or until pre-sale allocation exhausted.

Frontier Members Pre-Sale via  frontiertouring.com/midnightoil . Runs 24 hours from Tuesday 30th November or until pre-sale allocation exhausted.

*A Day On the Green Members Pre-Sale via  adayonthegreen.com.au/midnightoil . Runs 24 hours from Tuesday 30th November (Starts 11am local) or until pre-sale allocation exhausted.

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Midnight Oil Announce New Album ‘Resist,’ Final Tour

Australian rock band Midnight Oil recently announced a new album and a Farewell Tour.

Midnight Oil announced that a chapter of their half-a-century long career will come to a memorable close next year with the release of a 12-song LP they recorded with late bass player Bones Hillman and a series of big gigs. Both are titled Resist .

The band also announced that this will be their final concert tour while making it clear that this does not mean the end of the Oils.

Each of the members will continue their own projects over the years ahead. They also remain very open to recording new music together in the future and supporting causes in which they believe.

The tour will see them perform classic Midnight Oil songs from across their repertoire while also showcasing some “urgent new works.”

Resist engages with the issues of today and tomorrow – like the lead single “Rising Seas,” which tackles the climate crisis in typically uncompromising fashion.

The album pre-order and Australasian tickets will go on-sale beginning November 30.

Midnight Oil said they are also planning a handful of international concerts, subject to Covid restrictions.

Drummer Rob Hirst says, “If I look back, I see a blur of familiar names and faces: Jim, Pete, Martin, Bear and me, slamming loud prog-pop in a Chatswood garage; Giffo, magnificent, rocking back and forth at his first Royal Antler gig; Bonesy, headphones on, singing, lounging on the deck learning our catalogue.”

“I see our managers in their offices; our folks-in-the-engine-room; our wives and trusted friends, and the tiny faces of the ‘Baby Oils’; and the first two rows of a thousand gigs: Midnight Oil fans, pumping, jumping, singing louder than the band…But I don’t look back,” he added.

Resist will be Midnight Oil’s 15th studio album.

A Midnight Oil special performance on “The Sound” is set to air on Sunday at 5:30 pm on ABC TV or ABC iview .

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• At the Time of Writing Play Video
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• No Time for Games Play Video
• Brave Faces Play Video
• First Nation Play Video
• Gadigal Land Play Video
• The Dead Heart Play Video
• My Country Play Video
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• Dreamworld Play Video
• Beds Are Burning Play Video
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• Forgotten Years Play Video
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Note: Bullroarer was on the printed setlist following Only the Strong & Tone Poem was on the printed setlist following Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers, but not played; Soundcheck included: Power and the Passion, Redneck Wonderland, The Barka-Darling River, No Reaction, No Time for Games, Jimmy Sharman's Boxers, Wind in My Head, & Tarkine

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Midnight Oil announce final tour

Aussie legends Midnight Oil will quit touring after new album Resist and a run of Antipodean dates

Aussie rock legends Midnight Oil have announced that their next tour will be their last. The band will release a new album, Resist , in the new year, and undertake a final run of Antipodean dates to support it. 

The tour kicks off with a previously announced appearance at the Mona Foma festival in Launceston, Tasmania, on January 23, and concludes at the Spark Arena in Auckland, New Zealand on May 13. Full dates below.

“We all know time refuses to stand still for anyone but after many years together the band’s spirit is deep, the music and words are strong, and our ideas and actions as bold as we can make them," says frontman Peter Garrett. "We’ve reached people in ways we never could have imagined. Our desire to create and speak out is undimmed. 

"We hope everyone who hears this album and gets to one of the shows will come away charged up about the planet’s future, saying ‘why stop now?’. Having always tackled every tour like it’s the last – this time it actually will be."  

While the tour will be the band's last, they haven't ruled out working together in the studio, with a statement on the band's website revealing, "Each of the members will continue their own projects over the years ahead. They remain very open to recording new music together in future and supporting causes in which they believe."

Resist is the first music to be released by the band since the death of bassist Bones Hillman last year, from cancer. Hillman plays on the new album. 

Tickets for the tour will go on general sale on December 1 , while the album can be pre-ordered from 12:01am AEDT on Tuesday November 30. 

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Midnight Oil: Resist tracklist

Rising Seas The Barka-Darling River Tarkine At the Time of Writing Nobody’s Child To the Ends of the Earth Reef We Resist Lost At Sea Undercover We Art Not Afraid Last Frontier

Midnight Oil: Resist Australia and NZ tour dates

Jan 23: Launceston Mona Foma Festival, TAS Jan 25: Launceston Mona Foma Festival, TAS Jan 28: Hobart Mona Foma Festival, TAS Jan 31: Hobart Mona Foma Festival, TAS Feb 26: Orange Heifer Station Wines, NSW Mar 02: Wollongong WIN Entertainment Centre, NSW Mar 05: Waurn Ponds Mt Duneed Estate, VIC Mar 09: Melbourne Rod Laver Arena, VIC Mar 12: Wahgunyah All Saints Estate, VIC Mar 26: Middle Swan Nikola Estate Winery, WA Apr 02: Darwin Ampitheatre, NT Apr 06: Cairns Convention Centre, QLD Apr 09: Sunshine Coast Stadium, QLD Apr 13: Brisbane Riverstage Brisbane, QLD Apr 15: Byron Bay Bluesfest, NSW Apr 19: Canberra Stage 88, ACT Apr 21: Sydney Qudos Bank Arena, NSW    May 07: Christchurch Arena, NZ May 10: Wellington TSB Arena, NZ May 13: Auckland Spark Arena, NZ

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Midnight Oil live in Sydney: on their final tour, the rock veterans remain a force to be reckoned with

April 21, Qudos Bank Arena: In the city where it all began, the Oils put on career-spanning show charged by an enduring, fiery message of resistance

The Sydney stop of Midnight Oil’s final Australian tour was always going to feel pretty special.

Here, some five decades after forming, in the city where they cut their teeth with furious live shows across swathes of sweat-soaked pub floors. Tonight, at Qudos Bank Arena – a stone’s throw from where they performed Aboriginal land rights anthem ‘Beds Are Burning’ with the word ‘sorry’ emblazoned on their clothes, 22 years ago, to a packed Olympic stadium and an estimated one billion television viewers.

But first, East Arnhem Land rockers King Stingray take the stage. In the year and a half since they released attention-grabbing debut single ‘Hey Wanhaka’ , they’ve become a tight, dynamic live act, keenly locked in to each other while brimming with exuberance. Newer cuts like latest single ‘Camp Dog’ and last year’s disco-tinged banger ‘Milkumana’ shine – the band’s presence and chemistry are a joy, their continued rise well-deserved.

Lights go dark and as five silhouettes take the stage, the sombre opening guitar line of ‘We Resist’ begins to sound throughout the arena – a reflective slow-burner from the band’s new album ‘Resist’ that speaks to the need to defy “ those who sell fear .” As it draws to a close, the band pivot sharply into one of their earliest songs, with a triumphantly zealous performance of ‘Back On The Borderline’ from 1979’s ‘Head Injuries’.

It’s a testament to the Oils’ consistency that songs from ‘Resist’ like ‘Rising Seas’ and ‘At The Time Of Writing’, as well as ‘First Nation’ from last year’s excellent ‘The Makarrata Project’ , fit as well into a setlist that draws from all corners of their lengthy catalogue, celebrating their enduring legacy.

When announcing that this tour would be their last, guitarist and keyboardist Jim Moginie explained that the band had been playing “intensely physical gigs” since their inception and didn’t ever want to compromise that.

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Certainly, there’s no compromise here tonight. The band rip through the breakneck title track from 1998’s ‘Redneck Wonderland’ with ferocity, delivering crowd favourites like ‘The Dead Heart’, ‘Blue Sky Mine’ and ‘King Of The Mountain’ with all the dramatic aplomb they deserve.

Peter Garrett has always been a magnetic frontman and tonight’s no different, the 69-year-old rarely staying put anywhere on stage for too long. The rest of the band may not be as consistently animated, but together they’re a thrill to witness; Rob Hirst’s drum solo during ‘Power And The Passion’ is a particular highlight.

Leah Flanagan – one of the band’s two backing vocalists on their current tour, along with Liz Stringer – is absent, Garrett explains, due to “the dreaded C” (which the frontman himself recently caught ). Nevertheless, Stringer alone is a force, elevating each song she performs on.

Of course, someone else is missing from the stage tonight. The Oils’ “brother in music” Bones Hillman died in 2020 , and the shows are, in part, a tribute to the bassist who performed on all albums from 1990’s ‘Blue Sky Mining’ onwards. His touring replacement, Adam Ventoura, is a more than capable stand-in, deftly anchoring the songs with buoyancy and visibly stoked to be there.

Arenas are always a tricky balance, and Qudos – built as the Sydney Super Dome for the Olympics – sometimes falters in terms of sound. Nevertheless, the band take it in their stride, and it does little to dampen the atmosphere of the audience that fills out the enormous room.

Plus, what’s always underscored the Oils, that intersection of art and activism, is what takes centre stage this evening. Years of protest footage – both archival and more recent – project onto the screen behind the stage, along with images of the natural environment, both in its majesty, and its rapid deterioration from bushfires and flooding. Between songs, Garrett addresses the failures of the current ruling party, and the urgency needed to take dramatic action on climate change.

“Once upon a time, when you sang about politics, when you called out an empty piece of vacuity like the current prime minister – who doesn’t deserve that office – people would say, ‘Oh, I don’t know. Music and politics shouldn’t mix,’” Garrett explains at one point.

“As I remember, that former Tory Prime Minister, Mr. Howard said exactly the same thing. ‘You can’t mix them up, they’ve got nothing to do with one another.’ That’s not true. This is life that we sing about.”

As the one-two punch of ‘Beds Are Burning’ and ‘Hercules’ closes a 24-song journey through the Oils’ long and fierce career, it’s clear that the band are going out on top: seasoned performers as passionate and energised as ever, with their message of resistance – threaded through almost every element of tonight’s show – raging on.

Midnight Oil played:

• ‘We Resist’
• ‘Back On The Borderline’
• ‘At The Time Of Writing’
• ‘The Barka-Darling River’
• ‘Don’t Wanna Be The One’
• ‘Put Down That Weapon’
• ‘Dreamworld’
• ‘Stand In Line’
• ‘In The Valley’
• ‘US Forces’
• ‘Kosciusko’
• ‘Only The Strong’
• ‘The Dead Heart’
• ‘First Nation’
• ‘Redneck Wonderland’
• ‘Rising Seas’
• ‘Forgotten Years’
• ‘Power And The Passion’
• ‘Blue Sky Mine’
• ‘King Of The Mountain’
• ‘Best Of Both Worlds’
• ‘Wedding Cake Island’
• ‘Beds Are Burning’
• ‘Hercules’
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