Midnight Oil Oils at the Reef Tanks Arts Centre
The Great Circle 2017 has finally returned to the place where information technology all began for Midnight Oil – in their hometown of Sydney.
Appropriately enough for a tour that included 77 incendiary shows, things ended with a bang. The last fortnight saw the ring sparring with a former Australian Prime Minister, continuing their campaign against the filthy Adani coal mine and celebrating a victory for love over fear, all while battling the elements and a 'season ending injury'.
Dorsum to back shows on unusually cold nights in Wodonga and Hanging Rock plus a rowdy Melbourne Cup Eve gig two nights later at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl reached over 50,000 of the nigh song fans seen (or heard!) anywhere on the whole tour. Unfortunately things and so took a nasty turn during an encore Bowl appearance when keyboardist/guitarist Jim Moginie took a tumble right at the finish of the main set. In an attempt to protect his guitar during the fall he tore his hamstring tendon completely off the os. For nearly 24 hours there was talk of the remaining shows needing to exist moved into 2018 but Jim chose to delay necessary surgery and committed to doing the next 4 gigs fully seated and in considerable pain. Thanks once more Jim!
All of this drama set upwards an epic return to Sydney on November eleven (aka Armistice Solar day). Former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, seized his chance to get back in the headines past calling the band "squatters" for performing two rock shows in a metropolis park. Interestingly the classical music loving ex-PM had never complained when the aforementioned space was used over 50 times for opera and symphonies over the previous decades. The stoush was somehow appropriate given that The Domain was Australia's hub of robust public debate for well-nigh a century but to rework a phrase that used to be well known in Australia, "these were the gigs that Sydney had to have"!
A comparatively intimate simply particularly intense Monday evening show in Wollongong and a rainy third Myer Bowl on the night that Australian Matrimony Equality received a thumping endorsement then set up last Fri night's Grand Finale dorsum in Sydney. This second massive Domain gig was packed with the band's friends and family. Special guests Charlie McMahon on didgeridoo for "The Dead Heart" and Yirrmal on vocals for the indigenous classic, "Treaty", fabricated the dark even more special given that the concert happened inside sight of the place where start English settlement occurred in 1788.
From the phase the band could also see Sydney Harbour where they outset unveiled this epic take chances aboard a gunkhole way back in February. Since that time Midnight Oil has performed in 16 countries across 5 continents. They take worked their way though 106 different songs including eleven cover versions.
Alongside all the big gigs, Midnight Oil likewise did their flake for diverse causes. For example an evening set on The Rainbow Warrior in Rio, green European festivals similar Paleo and Ostrava plus Great Barrier Reef fundraisers in Cairns and Fremantle were amongst the main tour highlights. Abiding advocacy to #StopAdani throughout the Australian leg of the tour has helped bring focus to that of import effect and the band's back up will go on mail service-tour by way of the funds raised through the do good gigs and special mail-show poster sales.
Behind the scenes more than than 200 people have helped make this massive tour possible. Some take been part of the whole journey, others have only joined for a few weeks here or there but to each and every ane of these individuals – from truck drivers to travel agents, from office staff to the band's sensational road coiffure – the Oils say a heartfelt thanks for your tireless labour.
For everyone wondering what'southward adjacent … who knows?! However as one terminal slice of news nosotros can confirm rumors that the Domain shows were filmed and recorded. Some of that cloth may be released in some form next twelvemonth every bit a memento for those who were there and as a 'next best thing' for all those who missed out. Picket this infinite for more details.
But now the time has come; The Slap-up Circle 2017 has officially come to a shut. If you were one of the 500,000+ people who experienced this special tour then the Oils cheers one more time and promise you enjoyed this unforgettable feel every bit much as they did.
" As Midnight Oil neared the cease of their massive eight-month world bout, all was correct with the world."
– Michael Dwyer, The Age
"As the ring delivered song after song stamped on the Dna of the Australian soundtrack… the fans got louder to match the oversupply and potently reminded everyone of every moment the Oils mattered in our lives. And why they matter now."
– Kathy McCabe, Daily Telegraph
"They were superbly musical but with a contained relentless power. Occasionally we were taken on exhilarating whoopee-rides of excessive rock eruption. And by honouring their legacy, by committing themselves and then firmly to being Midnight Oil, they assumed gravitas and dignity."
– Peter Farnan, Daily Review
Wodonga 3/xi
Photo: Brett Schewitz
Hanging Rock four/eleven
Photo: Brett Schewitz
Hanging Rock 4/11
Photo: Brett Schewitz
Hanging Rock 4/11
Photo: Ringo Dingo
Hanging Rock 4/11
Photograph: Jim Moginie
"Hunters Horns. Jeremy Jack and Michael. A mighty sound. Smashing to have them onboard for the last shows." – JM iv/11
Photograph: Kane Hibberd
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 6/11
Photo: Kane Hibberd
Sidney Myer Music Basin, Melbourne six/11
Photo: Kane Hibberd
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 6/11
Photo: Kane Hibberd
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne half-dozen/11
Photograph: Brett Schewitz
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 8/11
"The dark side of Irish dancing. Post autumn ukelele improvisations requiring heavy medical supervision." – JM 10/11
The Domain, Sydney eleven/xi
The Domain, Sydney 11/xi
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney xi/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney xi/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 11/11
The Domain, Sydney 11/xi
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney xi/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 11/11
P hoto: Chris Frape
Wollongong 13/eleven
P hoto: Chris Frape
Wollongong 13/eleven
Photograph: Danyon
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne 15/eleven
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 17/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 17/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 17/11
P hoto: Tony Mott
The Domain, Sydney 17/11
"Mail service mortem Medico? At the last show at The Domain." – JM 17/xi
The Domain, Sydney 17/11
Source: https://www.midnightoil.com/news/page/24/
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