Seeing Midnight Oil live is always an exhilarating experience, whether it be in a sweaty pub such as the former Selina's in Coogee Beach, a New York ballroom, or under the broad southern sky at a winery.
Key points:
- Midnight Oil have announced next year's tour will be their last
- The tour will be accompanied by the release of Resist, their 15th studio album
- Midnight Oil is one of Australia's most successful and acclaimed bands
But the days of the band trekking around Australia and the world are coming to an end, with the legendary Aussie band announcing on Friday that their upcoming tour will be their last.
The door has been left slightly ajar for future one-off gigs "supporting causes in which they believe", the band said in a statement, "but this will be their last tour".
The run of gigs will be accompanied by the release of a new album titled Resist, comprising 12 new songs recorded with late bassist Bones Hillman.
Hillman died last year, the same week Midnight Oil's most recent album The Makarrata Project debuted at number one on the ARIA charts.
Guitarist Jim Moginie paid tribute to Hillman, noting that "a lot has happened over the past five years".
"Much has been achieved and with the passing of Bones much has been lost, so it now feels like we're at the end of a cycle," Moginie says.
The band say they still hope to record together, but their announcement hints at the understanding their incendiary live shows can only go on for so long as frontman Peter Garrett is 68, and his bandmates are not much younger.
"We've played intensely physical gigs since our humble beginnings back in 1977 and we never want to take even the slightest risk of compromising that," Moginie says.
Garrett said the new studio album — the band's 15th — will continue Midnight Oil's tradition of powerful messages to match the powerful music.
"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?'," he 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.
Fellow bandmates Martin Rotsey and Rob Hirst paid tribute to their fans, families and crews; noting how far the band had come over 45 years of rocking not only Australia, but the world.
Midnight Oil's final Australian tour will begin in February next year and finish in April in Sydney, with international gigs being considered subject to COVID restrictions.
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