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  • Midnight Oil playing outdoor shows in Australia next year around ‘Makarrata Project’

    Midnight Oil playing outdoor shows in Australia next year around ‘Makarrata Project’

    • 13 December 2020
    • Tour Dates
    • 1 comment

    Midnight Oil has announced plans to play a short run of outdoor concerts in the reunited band’s native Australia in February and March of next year centered around its new mini-LP The Makarrata Project, a collaboration with First Nation musicians. Full dates and details right here.

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  • Bones Hillman, Midnight Oil’s ‘bassist with the beautiful voice,’ dies of cancer

    Bones Hillman, Midnight Oil’s ‘bassist with the beautiful voice,’ dies of cancer

    • 7 November 2020
    • Obits
    • 1 comment

    Bones Hillman, who joined Midnight Oil following the recording of its breakthrough album Diesel and Dust and who is described by the band as “the bassist with the beautiful voice,” died on Saturday after a battle with cancer, the group announced on social media. He was 62.

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  • Midnight Oil to reissue 10 remastered CDs, finally release ‘Black Rain Falls’ on DVD

    Midnight Oil to reissue 10 remastered CDs, finally release ‘Black Rain Falls’ on DVD

    • 9 June 2014
    • DVD, Reissues
    • 6 comments

    Midnight Oil this month will release for the first time remastered CDs of the band’s full catalog from 1978 to 1993 — the group’s first eight full-length albums, plus two EPs — and also will finally issue its 1990 VHS release “Black Rain Falls” on DVD and digitally.

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  • Midnight Oil quashes reunion talk as band’s longtime manager Gary Morris quits

    Midnight Oil quashes reunion talk as band’s longtime manager Gary Morris quits

    • 22 July 2013
    • Reunions, Video
    • 1 comment

    Just days after manager Gary Morris told Australian media that Midnight Oil had been offered up to $200,000 per show to reunite and tour the U.S., the band has issued a statement saying it had no current plans to reform in the wake of Peter Garrett’s newfound unemployment, and that Morris was resigning his position.

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  • Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett demoted by Australian PM over insulation scandal

    Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett demoted by Australian PM over insulation scandal

    • 26 February 2010
    • Misc.
    • 0 comments

    Ex-Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett’s political career hasn’t been going so great lately, and things went from bad to worse today when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd demoted the former rocker over a “bungled home-insulation scheme,” according to Reuters.

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  • Midnight Oil, Violent Femmes members form instrumental surf-rock band The Break

    Midnight Oil, Violent Femmes members form instrumental surf-rock band The Break

    • 24 January 2010
    • Album News, Tour Dates, Video
    • 1 comment

    Three members of disbanded Aussie rock powerhouse Midnight Oil — drummer Rob Hirst and guitarists Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey — and ex-Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie this week announced the formation of The Break, a mostly instrumental surf-rock combo whose debut is due this spring.

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  • Peter Garrett rejoins Midnight Oil for Australian bushfire benefit

    Peter Garrett rejoins Midnight Oil for Australian bushfire benefit

    • 14 March 2009
    • Concerts, Reunions, Setlist, Video
    • 2 comments

    Australian Environmental Minister Peter Garrett hung up his suit and tie and returned to more familiar environs —the concert stage — this week to front […]

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