Tickets are obtainable from 10am on Friday 4 March underneath and this show is portion of their environment tour.
The tour arrives in aid of the release of ‘RESIST’, their initial full duration studio album in 20 a long time. In signature type, the album’s dozen tracks deal with a slew of urgent issues. From opener, ‘Rising Seas’ by ‘Last Frontier’ which closes the set, recurring themes contain climate disaster, environmental degradation and the part of citizens alive to the immense troubles of our periods. Moods extend from the wilderness reverie of ‘Tarkine’ and the poignant ‘Lost At Sea’ to the anthemic protest celebration ‘We Resist’ though the album’s musical span is similarly broad, encompassing slashing guitars in new single ‘At The Time Of Writing’ and brooding artificial textures in ‘We Are Not Afraid’. There’s even a a few-component epic referred to as ‘The Barka-Darling River’ that retains offering surprising twists as it snakes along.
In line with the album, the band have also shared the video for ‘We Resist’. This shorter film combines submissions of protest steps by Midnight Oil enthusiasts from around the world as perfectly as archival footage from a handful of the several this sort of occasions staged by the band in excess of the yrs.
Although the band announced that this will be their remaining live performance tour, they have created it obvious that this does not indicate the conclude of Midnight Oil. Each individual of the users will keep on their individual projects over the a long time forward. They continue to be pretty open up to recording new tunes jointly in long run and supporting causes in which they think, but this will be their previous tour. It will see them performing typical Midnight Oil tracks from across their repertoire although also showcasing some urgent new operates.
‘RESIST’ is Midnight Oil’s 15th studio launch considering that they initially exploded out of the write-up-punk scene back again in 1978, blazing a singular path of blistering gigs from Australia’s pubs and clubs to arenas and festivals all around the earth. It is a fitting, forward wanting, assertion for a band whose clarion contact has constantly been “it’s much better to die on your feet than are living on your knees”. That includes stellar generation by Warne Livesey (DIESEL & DUST, BLUE SKY MINING, CAPRICORNIA) RESIST will be accompanied by some specific dwell performances that will comprise the group’s ultimate concert tour.
This new album was actually recorded in late 2019 and hence attributes prolonged-time bass player, Bones Hillman, who regrettably handed absent 12 months afterwards. Individuals sessions yielded 20 music, but their launch was delayed by the Covid pandemic. The initial flavor of this new do the job landed in late 2020 as THE MAKARRATA Task – a mini-album showcasing some of Australia’s finest Initial Nations musicians, and based mostly on the themes of reconciliation, justice and truth of the matter-telling composed in the Uluru Assertion from the Heart. It debuted at #1 in the band’s homeland on the very same weekend that Bones passed away and went on to be nominated for 5 ARIA Awards. Lead solitary ‘Gadigal Land’ (feat. Dan Sultan, Joel Davison, Kaleena Briggs and Bunna Lawrie) received the prestigious APRA Song Of The Calendar year.
From the northern shorelines of Sydney to the streets of Manhattan, Midnight Oil has stopped traffic, infected passions, motivated lovers, challenged the concepts of “business as usual” and broken new floor. In 2017 the band returned from a 15-12 months hiatus for their Wonderful Circle Environment Tour that encompassed 77 demonstrates in 16 international locations. The incredible audience and significant reaction to those people displays guide to additional European dates and an Australian outback gig in 2019 which then flowed into the recording sessions where RESIST was made. The album’s a great deal anticipated release will hence practically shut the circle on this chapter of a truly extraordinary occupation.
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