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| Mon 02 Oct, 2017 | ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs - 18+* | |
| Wed 04 Oct, 2017 | Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin - 18+* | |
| Fri 06 Oct, 2017 | Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns - 18+ | |
| Sat 07 Oct, 2017 | Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns - 18+* | |
| Tue 10 Oct, 2017 | Townsville Entertainment Centre, Townsville - All Ages | |
| Thu 12 Oct, 2017 | Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton - 18+* | |
| Sat 14 Oct, 2017 | Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast - 18+* | |
| Sun 15 Oct, 2017 | Riverstage - Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Brisbane - All Ages | |
| Tue 17 Oct, 2017 | Riverstage - Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Brisbane - All Ages | |
| Thu 19 Oct, 2017 | C.ex Coffs International Stadium Forecourt, Coffs Harbour - 18+* | |
| Sat 21 Oct, 2017 | Hope Estate, Hunter Valley - 18+* | |
| Tue 24 Oct, 2017 | AIS Arena, Canberra - All Ages | |
| Thu 26 Oct, 2017 | The Village Green Adelaide Oval, Adelaide - All Ages | |
| Sat 28 Oct, 2017 | Perth Arena, Perth - All Ages | |
| Sun 29 Oct, 2017 | Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth - 18+* | |
| Wed 01 Nov, 2017 | Derwent Entertainment Centre, Hobart - All Ages | |
| Fri 03 Nov, 2017 | Gateway Lakes, Wodonga - 18+* | |
| Sat 04 Nov, 2017 | Hanging Rock, Macedon Ranges - 18+* | |
| Mon 06 Nov, 2017 | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne - All Ages | |
| Wed 08 Nov, 2017 | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne - All Ages | |
| Sat 11 Nov, 2017 | The Domain, Sydney - 18+* | |
| Mon 13 Nov, 2017 | WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong - All Ages | |
| Wed 15 Nov, 2017 | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne - All Ages | |
| Fri 17 Nov, 2017 | The Domain, Sydney - 18+* |
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12 Oct 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL add 'One For The Oceans' in Fremantle, WA
Oct 12, 2017Midnight Oil have added another special benefit concert to their current Australian tour, presented by Frontier Touring.
‘One For The Oceans’ will see the band play their iconic album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in its entirety for the first time ever in this country, along with an hour of other Oils classics.
This one-off gig will happen in the intimate outdoor coastal setting of the Fremantle Arts Centre on Sunday October 29. Every cent of profit will go to various charities that work in the areas of reef protection and climate change including AMCS.org.au. It will happen just a few days after an October 24 National Press Club address in Canberra by frontman, Peter Garrett entitled “Trashing our crown jewel: The fate of the Great Barrier Reef in the coal age.”
‘One For The Oceans’ will be staged with the support of official media partners Fremantle Festival, Mix 94.5 and The West Australian. Special guests will be local six piece - and triple j Unearthed favourites - POW! Negro.
Fans are formally advised to only buy tickets by following the official links on the Frontier Touring or Midnight Oil websites to avoid getting ripped off by scalpers.
As part of the licensing provisions any patrons who are not yet 18 years of age will only be admitted if they are carrying a valid ticket and accompanied by an adult carrying photo ID.
City of Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt said:
“Midnight Oil’s decision to play a unique concert right here at WA’s favourite Arts Centre is further evidence that Fremantle truly is WA’s event capital. The cause is one that’s very important to Fremantle so we’re thrilled to support it. This will be a gig to remember.”
Midnight Oil’s actions on behalf of the Great Barrier Reef in particular - and ocean degradation in general - kicked off last Friday in Cairns with a special visit to Vlasoff Cay (pictured below) and a smaller fundraising show at the local Tanks Arts Centre. That gig was filmed by MAX and recorded by Triple M for broadcast over coming weeks alongside interviews with reef scientists and other local experts.
The band is currently readying themselves for sold out shows in the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. The Great Circle 2017 Tour will wind its way from the Pacific Ocean around to the Indian Ocean over the following fortnight before this special show in Freo on Sunday, October 29.
The 10 - 1 album - as it’s typically called - took Midnight Oil to a whole new level after it landed in 1982.
An utterly original piece of work featuring songs like “US Forces”, “Power & The Passion”, “Read About It” and “Short Memory” it stayed on the Australian charts for 171 weeks after its release.
‘One For The Oceans’ will be the first time Australian fans have ever got to hear the whole album played in full on a concert stage.
05 Oct 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL | Last 1000 Tickets Released To Sold Out Hanging Rock Concert! Additional Tickets Also Released For Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Oct 05, 2017Midnight Oil kicked off their Australian tour in Alice Springs on Monday night to rave reviews. Already tipped as the must-see tour of the summer, the Oils gave their audience a rocking reminder as to why the word iconic is so frequently attached to their name.
“The band is watertight, clear as a bell and full of energy” The Guardian
“The Oils galvanised the mob and kept them joyously engaged for nigh on two hours” Crikey
With the majority of shows sold out for their upcoming Australian dates, news of the last 1000 GA tickets being released for their Hanging Rock show will be widely welcomed.
The iconic and picturesque Hanging Rock venue has hosted a select series of concerts since 2010, with Midnight Oil’s Saturday 4 November concert selling out immediately when the tour first went on sale earlier this year.
For details of the Hanging Rock show and how to get there visit hangingrockconcerts.com.au/midnightoil. The new tickets are on sale now and available via ticketmaster.com.au
Adding to the good news for Victoria, is confirmation that additional tickets have also just been released for Midnight Oil’s third Sidney Myer Music Bowl concert on Wednesday 15 November. Tickets are also now available via ticketmaster.com.au
Don’t miss out on this last chance to secure tickets to see the Oils on tour.
04 Aug 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL | Limited extra tickets released across the country | Third & final Melbourne concert + special Great Barrier Reef event revealed
Aug 04, 2017With less than two months until the homecoming leg of The Great Circle 2017 World Tour, the first Midnight Oil tickets started shipping to Australian fans today. To coincide with this moment the band and their promoters, Frontier Touring, have just dropped a few big surprises.
Firstly they revealed that Midnight Oil will do a third and final concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Wednesday November 15. Pre-sale tickets to this new Melbourne show will be available to Frontier Members (sign up here) and Midnight Oil Subscribers (sign up here) from noon AEST on Tuesday August 8. General Public tickets will then go on sale at noon AEST on Friday August 11. Tickets for each of the first two shows at this iconic venue sold out within minutes so fans are advised to get in early. Melbourne folk-punks The Smith Street Band will be special guests, with Yarra Valley R&B/soul combo The Teskey Brothers kicking off proceedings.
Oils fans around the rest of Australia also got some great news today. As part of ongoing anti-scalping initiatives Midnight Oil and Frontier Touring have just announced a STRICTLY LIMITED final release of extra tickets for nearly all of the local shows that were previously sold out. Some of these tickets will be available immediately via the usual online ticketing outlets.
The Oils have also allocated a small quantity of tickets for sale via select independent music stores to encourage fans to visit these retailers who do so much for Australian music. Record store tickets will go on sale from store opening today until sold out – you’ve just got to stand in line! Please see the show-by-show info below for all the specific store details (digital version here).
Last but not least Midnight Oil also revealed today an intimate performance in Far North Queensland during early October to help draw extra attention to the plight of the Great Barrier Reef. Fans should listen to their local Triple M station over coming weeks to learn more about this unique event and get their chance to win free tickets.
Meanwhile The Great Circle 2017 World Tour continues to make waves across the globe. So far the band has rotated over 90 songs through their live sets with shows regularly topping the two hour mark.
The European leg wrapped up last week after playing to over 250,000 people on that continent including the Oils’ first ever concert in the Czech Republic (pictured). They then made a triumphant return to South Africa and will soon play in Singapore before making an encore visit to North America for some big gigs including The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.
By the time the Australian tour launches in Alice Springs on October 2 Midnight Oil will have played 50 gigs in 17 countries. The band will be road hardened and ready.
As is evident from the international live reviews Australian fans are in for a treat. Here’s just a small taste of what the critics have said so far:
“Collectively, the Oils proved more than ready to take on all comers for the title of world’s most exhilarating live rock band.” - (Illinois Entertainer)
“Proselytizers place the Australian band in the pantheon of great live acts, and justifiably so.” - (Chicago Tribune)
"Midnight Oil brought the power and the passion, full force, as if they hadn’t been gone for the last 15 years. A fantastic show.” - (Brooklyn Vegan)
“The show was packed with highlights … the crowd was going bonkers … the band nearly blew the roof off the place.” - (Goldmine)
“It’s no small thing to revive one of the biggest, most beloved and simultaneously most polarizing bands Australia has ever produced … sadly, in a sense, much of the material is more relevant than ever … audiences are in for one heck of a treat.” - (The Guardian)
“The musicianship is of the highest order, vocally there's a passion almost unseen these days and at the heart of it all lies a vast collection of simply exquisite songs.” - (Music Net, UK)
“A quarter-century on from their zenith, Midnight Oil’s return to the stage arrives at a timely political juncture; their reputation as a thrilling live act is only enriched with such a committed performance” - (Riddle Magazine UK)
“Presented with aplomb by five instrumentalists visibly boosted by this reunion … and the force of Peter Garrett. In addition to his scathing and expressive voice the giant delivers his famous gestures as an epileptic zombie miming the explosiveness of his comrades and the madness of men.” - (Le Monde, France)
“Garrett and the Oils approached every single song with so much passion that there was no doubt that what the audience witnessed was the stuff of legends, and sadly when it comes to music, there are not many of this calibre left.” - (City Buzz, South Africa)
30 Mar 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL announce Sydney pub show!
Mar 30, 2017As promised back in February, Midnight Oil will kick off “The Great Circle 2017” world tour with a ‘back-to-basics’ pub gig in Sydney. The venue: Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel. The date: Thursday April 13.
Special guests will be local buzzband Winston Surfshirt whose song ‘Be About You’ is currently making waves globally.
Both of Midnight Oil’s November concerts at The Domain are currently sold out so demand will be extremely high for this legendary beachside gig where the band cut its teeth in the very early 1980’s.
Tickets will therefore be sold via a ballot system to make the process as fair as possible, and to further frustrate scalpers.
If you are interested in coming to this gig you first have to register your interest here:
https://frntr.co/MidnightOilSelinas between 8am AEDT today (Thu Mar 30) and 8am AEST on Monday (Apr 3).
You can only register for the ballot once – multiple entries will be disqualified.
Successful applicants will then be selected by a completely random electronic process so every entrant has an equal chance of success.
Ticketek will email all successful applicants on Tuesday April 4 with instructions on how to purchase within the nominated sales period. All tickets will be General Admission and will cost $99.90 including GST and booking fees.
Sales will then open for successful applicants only on Tuesday April 4 at 12noon AEST and close on Friday April 7 at 12noon AEST.
BEFORE REGISTERING FOR THIS BALLOT PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING VERY IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Registration for the ballot is free but it does not guarantee that you will be allocated ticket(s).
- Strict ticket limit of two (2) tickets per successful applicant and all tickets must then be purchased within the on sale window detailed above.
- There will be no physical tickets whatsoever for this show – successful purchasers will be notified of entry procedure which may involve queuing.
- The successful applicant must be attending the event (ie: you cannot purchase on someone else’s behalf).
- If you apply for two tickets, you (ie: the successful ticket applicant and purchaser) must personally attend the event with your guest.
- Successful ticket applicants will be required to provide Photo ID on the night in order to gain admission to the venue. If you do not have Photo ID that matches the name on the credit card that was used to purchase your ticket - then you will not be admitted under any circumstances.
- This is a General Admission event. Those requiring special needs accessibility should still enter the ballot. Successful applicants will be sent information about direct entry for the night.
- Selina’s is a fully licensed venue so no persons under the age of 18 can be admitted due to NSW liquor licensing laws.
In keeping with all other messaging around this tour, Midnight Oil and Frontier Touring STRONGLY warn fans NOT to buy tickets for this gig by any means other than those described above. There will be no physical tickets whatsoever for this show so any websites claiming to have “Selina’s tickets” prior to the day of show cannot possibly be telling the truth.
01 Mar 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL announce extra shows in Syd & Melb | Extra tickets just released for Sunshine Coast | Wollongong fans - date change
Mar 01, 2017In a measure to put tickets into the hands of fans rather than scalpers, Midnight Oil has today announced additional concerts in Melbourne and Sydney. The band hope this additional supply of tickets in the market will reduce the ability of scalpers to unscrupulously profit from the passion of Midnight Oil fans. Further details on anti-scalping measures on “The Great Circle 2017” Tour can be found here.
The new concerts will take place in Melbourne on Wednesday 8 November at Sidney Myer Music Bowl and in Sydney on Friday 17 November at The Domain.
Pre-sale tickets to the new Melbourne and Sydney concerts will be available to Frontier Members (sign up here) and Midnight Oil Subscribers (sign up here) from Monday 6 March 1pm AEDT to Tuesday 7 March 1pm AEDT (or ends earlier if pre-sale allocation is exhausted). Eleven shows on The Great Circle 2017 Australian Tour have already sold out. Details of remaining tickets for all Australian dates are available at www.frontiertouring.com/midnightoil or www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates
Those who missed out on tickets to the Sunshine Coast show at Big Pineapple Fields on Saturday 14 October will be thrilled to hear that extra tickets have just been released and are on sale now through the show’s authorised ticketing agency Ticketek.
To allow for the additional Melbourne show Midnight Oil’s performance at Wollongong’s WIN Entertainment Centre (originally scheduled to take place on Wednesday 8 November) will now take place on Monday 13 November at WIN Entertainment Centre. Midnight Oil and Frontier Touring appreciate the understanding of Midnight Oil fans on the necessity of the date change. Ticketholders who are able to attend the rescheduled show date need take no further action; their existing ticket will be valid for the new date and their location within the venue remains unchanged.
Ticketholders who can no longer attend the rescheduled Wollongong date are asked to seek a full refund by 5pm AEDT Friday 31 March 2017 via the show’s official ticketing agency, Ticketmaster - ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100.
Frontier Touring and Midnight Oil sincerely apologise to those affected by this rescheduling.
The General Public on-sale will take place from Wednesday 8 March 1pm AEDT. All ticketing information for The Great Circle Tour can be found below and here www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates or at www.frontiertouring.com/midnightoil
Stay up to date with all the tour news by signing up to the band’s mailing list here www.midnightoil.com/mailing-list
16 Feb 2017
MIDNIGHT OIL announce 'The Great Circle 2017' World Tour plus major archival releases
Feb 16, 2017Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil today announced their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow Tank” which will contain more than 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
“The Great Circle 2017” World Tour will see the group’s classic line-up literally circle around our overheating planet for 6 months, starting and ending with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig (details to be announced closer to the date). Midnight Oil will then hone their live show with over 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer, playing iconic venues from Sao Paulo’s Espaço das Americas and the Wiltern in L.A. to London’s Hammersmith Apollo and The Olympia in Paris. They will share festival stages with artists like The Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years.
This long-awaited World Tour will climax with 18 special homecoming concerts through October and November, 2017. Given the band’s deep connections with central Australia the local leg will kick off in Alice Springs and Darwin before starting to circle their homeland with a show in the rainforest near Cairns. Over the following five weeks the tour will loop clockwise around the country in mainly outdoor venues including Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley, Victoria’s Hanging Rock and Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Brisbane’s Riverstage and the Village Green beside Adelaide Oval before “The Great Circle” finally comes to a close right back where it all began; with a final show in Sydney on November 11 at that traditional home of Australian political activism, The Domain.
These will be Midnight Oil’s only shows in the last 15 years apart from two stadium benefit concerts (and their related small warmup gigs); “Waveaid” at the Sydney Cricket Ground (2005) and “Sound Relief” at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (2009). It will also be the group’s most extensive world tour since their classic late 80’s/early 90’s albums like “Diesel & Dust”, “Blue Sky Mining” and “Earth & Sun & Moon” sold over 10 million copies around the globe.
The diverse spread of Special Guests who have signed up to be part of this unique tour reflect the long shadow that Midnight Oil has cast across the musical landscape. They include significant Australian voices such as John Butler Trio, AB Original, Adalita, Apakatjah, Bad/Dreems, Birds Of Tokyo, David Bridie, Ash Grunwald, Irrunytju Band, Jack River, Jedediah, The Jezebels, The Living End, Abbe May, Something For Kate, Spiderbait, Dan Sultan, Urthboy, and Frank Yamma.
People who sign up to Midnight Oil’s mailing list at midnightoil.com/mailing-list in the next few days will get first access to Australian tickets in a special presale on Thursday February 23rd alongside Frontier Members. Remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday February 27th.
All dates, venues, line-ups and ticket information are listed below (digital version here). Exact on sale times are deliberately being staggered from show to show to reduce website congestion so fans should pay very careful attention to all the details at midnightoil.com/tour-dates. Extensive anti-scalping measures are being taken around this tour so fans are formally advised to only buy tickets from the official ticket agencies listed on the band’s website to avoid possible fraud and needless overpayment via so called “reselling” sites.
“The Great Circle 2017” will be promoted in Australia by iconic locally owned rock promoter, Frontier Touring with the support of the band’s record company of nearly 40 years, Sony Music. The national Triple M Network and Foxtel’s MAX will proudly present all dates with some shows also having local presenting radio partners (see info below). Both Triple M and MAX will unveil exclusive Midnight Oil programming over coming days.
In a unique press conference on Sydney Harbour today this most Australian of bands also announced the impending release of a remastered CD box set called “The Full Tank” featuring all of their existing albums and EP’s plus a mammoth new 4 CD/8 DVD trove called “The Overflow Tank” which will include over 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material. Both of these box sets will be housed in replica miniature water tanks like the one featured onstage at so many ‘Oils’ gigs. The band also unveiled their first ever complete Vinyl collection which will feature 11 remastered LP’s and two 12” EP’s all cut at Abbey Rd Studios in London. For full boxset track listings and content information visit midnightoil.com/store. The Boxset Collection is available for pre-order now, out May 5 through Sony Music.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Australian culture knows the basics of Midnight Oil’s story. They are the incendiary post-punk band from Sydney’s northern beaches who shunned TV shows like Countdown, instead gigging endlessly and forging a fierce bond with their audience through jagged Ozrock classics like “Back On The Borderline”, “Bus To Bondi” and “Don’t Wanna Be The One”. They are the musical innovators who turned high tech anti-jingoistic polemic into hits like “Power & The Passion”, “U.S. Forces” and “When The Generals Talk”. They are the activists whose social justice campaigning includes “The Dead Heart”, “Redneck Wonderland”, “Beds Are Burning” and hijacking the 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony with their “Sorry” suits. They are the committed humanists and environmentalists who brought us anthems like “Blue Sky Mine”, “Forgotten Years” and “Say Your Prayers” plus a string of protests from the Tasmanian wilderness and the Jabiluka Uranium mine near Kakadu to mid-town Manhattan where they unforgettably stopped traffic outside the Exxon building after the Alaskan oil spill.
Their music makes you feel. Their lyrics make you think. And the combined impact live onstage is nothing less than a call to action.
In a dangerously warming world of Hanson, Trump, Petry and Le Pen the voice of Midnight Oil clearly takes on renewed relevance; they have always been a band that both reflects and shapes “the temper of the times”. So while clarion calls like “it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees” may have been intended for earlier eras they resonate more than ever in these days of ‘alternative facts’.
In keeping with the band’s longstanding commitments, their carbon footprint during “The Great Circle” World Tour will, of course, be fully offset and sustainability initiatives will be undertaken at all shows. Midnight Oil will also continue their collaborations with local and international environmental organisations including Greenpeace, supporting their campaigns on crucial issues like dangerous climate change and the imminent threats to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
At one level “The Great Circle 2017” simply reflects the geographic reality that the tour will loop around the world and then circle Australia. At another level the name clearly implies the planet itself but it has a further meaning too. Sailors, and airmen use “the great circle” to navigate the globe because on a sphere the shortest distance between two points is not usually a straight line. How appropriate for a group who has always been deeply engaged with the world around them but whose career path has never been linear.
Midnight Oil is more than just a rock ‘n’ roll band. In 2017 they will finally bring things back to where they all began. The circle remains unbroken.
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Thu 13 Apr | Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel
with special guest Winston Surfshirt
Mon 2 Oct | ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs
with special guests Dan Sultan and Apakatjah
Wed 4 Oct | Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin
with special guests Dan Sultan and Irrunytju Band
Sat 7 Oct | Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns
with special guest Urthboy
Tue 10 Oct | TECC, Townsville
with special guest Urthboy
Thu 12 Oct | Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton
with special guest Urthboy
Sat 14 Oct | Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast
with special guests The Living End and Jebediah
Sun 15 Oct | Riverstage, Brisbane
with special guests The Jezabels
Thu 19 Oct | Hockey Fields, Coffs Harbour
with special guests Jebediah and Jack River
Sat 21 Oct | Hope Estate, Hunter Valley
with special guests Birds Of Tokyo and Ash Grunwald
Tue 24 Oct | AIS Arena, Canberra
with special guests Something For Kate
Thu 26 Oct | The Village Green Adelaide Oval
with special guests Spiderbait and Bad//Dreems
Sat 28 Oct | Perth Arena, Perth
with special guests Spiderbait
Wed 1 Nov | Derwent Ent. Centre, Hobart
with special guests The Jezabels
Fri 3 Nov | Gateway Lakes, Wodonga
with special guests The Living End and EVEN
Sat 4 Nov | Hanging Rock, Mt Macedon
with special guests John Butler Trio, Something For Kate and Frank Yamma & David Bridie
Mon 6 Nov | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
with special guests The Jezabels and Adalita
Wed 8 Nov | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
with special guests The Jezabels and Adalita
Sat 11 Nov | The Domain, Sydney
with special guests John Butler Trio and A.B.Original
Mon 13 Nov | WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
with special guest Abbe May
Wed 15 Nov | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
with special guests The Smith Street Band and The Teskey Brothers
Fri 17 Nov | The Domain, Sydney
with special guests John Butler Trio and A.B.Original
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MELBOURNE (Wed 15 Nov):
5:30pm | Doors Open
6:15pm | The Teskey Brothers
7:15pm | The Smith Street Band
8:30pm | Midnight Oil
SYDNEY (Fri 17 Nov):
4:30pm | Doors Open
6:15pm | A.B Original
7:15pm | John Butler Trio
8:30pm | Midnight Oil
* Please note stage times are a guide only and subject to change without notice
THE GREAT CIRCLE 2017
WORLD TOUR
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Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil announce their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveil plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow Tank” which will contain more than 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
“The Great Circle 2017” World Tour will see the group’s classic line-up literally circle around our overheating planet for 6 months, starting and ending with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig (details to be announced closer to the date). Midnight Oil will then hone their live show with over 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer, playing iconic venues from Sao Paulo’s Espaço das Americas and the Wiltern in L.A. to London’s Hammersmith Apollo and The Olympia in Paris. They will share festival stages with artists like Arcade Fire, Sting and Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years.
This long-awaited World Tour will climax with 18 special homecoming concerts through October and November, 2017. Given the band’s deep connections with central Australia the local leg will kick off in Alice Springs and Darwin before starting to circle their homeland with a show in the rainforest near Cairns. Over the following five weeks the tour will loop clockwise around the country in mainly outdoor venues including Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley, Victoria’s Hanging Rock and Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Brisbane’s Riverstage and the Village Green beside Adelaide Oval before “The Great Circle” finally comes to a close right back where it all began; with a final show in Sydney on November 11 at that traditional home of Australian political activism, The Domain.
These will be Midnight Oil’s only shows in the last 15 years apart from two stadium benefit concerts (and their related small warmup gigs); “Waveaid” at the Sydney Cricket Ground (2005) and “Sound Relief” at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (2009). It will also be the group’s most extensive world tour since their classic late 80’s/early 90’s albums like “Diesel & Dust”, “Blue Sky Mining” and “Earth & Sun & Moon” sold over 10 million copies around the globe.
The diverse spread of Special Guests who have signed up to be part of this unique tour reflect the long shadow that Midnight Oil has cast across the musical landscape. They include significant Australian voices such as John Butler Trio, AB Original, Adalita, Apakatjah, Bad/Dreems, Birds Of Tokyo, David Bridie, Ash Grunwald, Irrunytju Band, Jack River, Jedediah, The Jezebels, The Living End, Abbe May, Something For Kate, Spiderbait, Dan Sultan, Urthboy, and Frank Yamma.
Extensive anti-scalping measures are being taken around this tour so fans are formally advised to only buy tickets from the official ticket agencies listed on the band’s website to avoid possible fraud and needless overpayment via so called “reselling” sites.
“The Great Circle 2017” will be promoted in Australia by iconic locally owned rock promoter, Frontier Touring with the support of the band’s record company of nearly 40 years, Sony Music. The national Triple M Network and Foxtel’s MAX will proudly present all dates with some shows also having local presenting radio partners (see info below). Both Triple M and MAX will unveil exclusive Midnight Oil programming over coming days.
In a unique press conference on Sydney Harbour this most Australian of bands also announced the impending release of a remastered CD box set called “The Full Tank” featuring all of their existing albums and EP’s plus a mammoth new 4 CD/8 DVD trove called “The Overflow Tank” which will include over 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material. Both of these box sets will be housed in replica miniature water tanks like the one featured onstage at so many ‘Oils’ gigs. The band also unveiled their first ever complete Vinyl collection which will feature 11 remastered LP’s and two 12” EP’s all cut at Abbey Rd Studios in London. For full boxset track listings and content information visit midnightoil.com/store. The Boxset Collection is available for pre-order now, out May 5 through Sony Music.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Australian culture knows the basics of Midnight Oil’s story. They are the incendiary post-punk band from Sydney’s northern beaches who shunned TV shows like Countdown, instead gigging endlessly and forging a fierce bond with their audience through jagged Ozrock classics like “Back On The Borderline”, “Bus To Bondi” and “Don’t Wanna Be The One”. They are the musical innovators who turned high tech anti-jingoistic polemic into hits like “Power & The Passion”, “U.S. Forces” and “When The Generals Talk”. They are the activists whose social justice campaigning includes “The Dead Heart”, “Redneck Wonderland”, “Beds Are Burning” and hijacking the 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony with their “Sorry” suits. They are the committed humanists and environmentalists who brought us anthems like “Blue Sky Mine”, “Forgotten Years” and “Say Your Prayers” plus a string of protests from the Tasmanian wilderness and the Jabiluka Uranium mine near Kakadu to mid-town Manhattan where they unforgettably stopped traffic outside the Exxon building after the Alaskan oil spill.
Their music makes you feel. Their lyrics make you think. And the combined impact live onstage is nothing less than a call to action.
In a dangerously warming world of Hanson, Trump, Petry and Le Pen the voice of Midnight Oil clearly takes on renewed relevance; they have always been a band that both reflects and shapes “the temper of the times”. So while clarion calls like “it’s better to die on your feet than live on your knees” may have been intended for earlier eras they resonate more than ever in these days of ‘alternative facts’.
In keeping with the band’s longstanding commitments, their carbon footprint during “The Great Circle” World Tour will, of course, be fully offset and sustainability initiatives will be undertaken at all shows. Midnight Oil will also continue their collaborations with local and international environmental organisations including Greenpeace, supporting their campaigns on crucial issues like dangerous climate change and the imminent threats to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
At one level “The Great Circle 2017” simply reflects the geographic reality that the tour will loop around the world and then circle Australia. At another level the name clearly implies the planet itself but it has a further meaning too. Sailors, and airmen use “the great circle” to navigate the globe because on a sphere the shortest distance between two points is not usually a straight line. How appropriate for a group who has always been deeply engaged with the world around them but whose career path has never been linear.
Midnight Oil is more than just a rock ‘n’ roll band. In 2017 they will finally bring things back to where they all began. The circle remains unbroken.
TOUR DATES
Thu 13 Apr – Selina’s at Coogee Bay Hotel (18+)
Mon 2 Oct – ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs (18+*)
Wed 4 Oct – Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin (18+*)
Sat 7 Oct – Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns (18+*) SOLD OUT!
Tue 10 Oct – Townsville Ent. Centre, Townsville (All Ages)
Thu 12 Oct – Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton (18+*)
Sat 14 Oct – Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast (18+*) SOLD OUT!
Sun 15 Oct – Riverstage, Brisbane (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Tue 17 Oct – Riverstage, Brisbane (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Thu 19 Oct – C.ex Coffs Int. Stadium Forecourt, Coffs Harbour (18+*)
NOTE: VENUE CHANGE FROM HOCKEY FIELDS
Sat 21 Oct – Hope Estate, Hunter Valley (18+*)
Tue 24 Oct – AIS Arena, Canberra (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Thu 26 Oct – The Village Green Adelaide Oval (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Sat 28 Oct – Perth Arena, Perth (All Ages)
Sun 29 Oct – One For The Oceans, Fremantle Arts Centre SOLD OUT!
Wed 1 Nov – Derwent Ent. Centre, Hobart (All Ages)
Fri 3 Nov – Gateway Lakes, Wodonga (18+*)
Sat 4 Nov – Hanging Rock, Mt Macedon (18+*)
Mon 6 Nov – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Wed 8 Nov – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne (All Ages) SOLD OUT!
Sat 11 Nov – The Domain, Sydney (18+*) SOLD OUT!
Mon 13 Nov – WIN Ent. Centre, Wollongong (All Ages)
(Prev. Wed 7 Nov)
Wed 15 Nov – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne (All Ages)
Fri 17 Nov – The Domain, Sydney (18+*)
* U18s must be accompanied by parent/legal guardian
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