Midnight Oil World Tour 2017

crank · Mar 15, 2017

Just realised you mentioned Bono in your OP.

Another flaming tosser. Can't stand U2.

scarlet witch · Mar 15, 2017

crank said: ↑

Just realised you mentioned Bono in your OP.

Another flaming tosser. Can't stand U2.
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What!!! U2 is the second best band everrrrr (INXS is the best) ...you've got to listen to this really loud... come on Crank

scarlet witch · Mar 22, 2017

I came across this article about journalist Andrew McMillan on tour with Midnight Oil in 1986, with the Warumpi Band to play music in remote Aboriginal communities. Apparently this tour changed Midnight Oil forever and "sparked the creation of the song ‘Beds Are Burning’"

I find some of the derogatory character remarks about Peter Garrett in this thread in contrast with what Andrew McMillan wrote.

From the outset, the Oils had been different. Eschewing the clichéd excesses of sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, they’d developed a low-key but strict code of behaviour...... And when the chits came down, they were arguably the cleanest outfit in the country.
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A powerful rock ’n’ roll band who, according to Mark Morgue of RAM magazine, ‘occupy a critical and central position as the most widely heard radical voice for young people in Australia’,
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They were an ’80s band with a social conscience, an enigma in an era in which so much pop music was devoid of integrity, in which bands were manufactured and moulded for a market. By the winter of 1986, they’d sold over a million records in a country with a population just sixteen times that number.
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Described by one journalist as ‘a one-band community service organisation’, they’d raised, by 1986, around a million dollars for those causes in which they’d developed a passionate interest. Through their fans, Midnight Oil was funding refuges for the homeless, rehabilitation centres and projects for the unemployed. They were supporting anti-nuclear campaigns, non-political peace and disarmament activities and drawing attention to environmental and conservation issues.

In late 1985, for instance, they released the EP Species Deceases. It sold 50,000 copies in two days and debuted on the national singles charts at number 1. All royalties were channelled into a trust fund for peace and disarmament activities.
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https://dailyreview.com.au/story-tour-australias-heart-shaped-midnight-oil/57343/

DennisTate · Mar 28, 2017

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One socially conscious famous person in this time and age can
get something going that could snowball way out of proportion to what would be expected......

http://www.politicalforum.com/index...-alternative-currency.496787/#post-1067125091

Proposed Green Party Volunteerism Hour or Dollar alternative currency.

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