Midnight Oil Announce “Armistice Day: Live At The Domain, Sydney”

On November 9, MidnightOil will release the live concert document  Armistice Day: Live At The Domain, Sydney, which presents the final gig of their 2017 Great Circle Tour. It will arrive as a DVD/Bluray, and album, and a deluxe collection.

Their first tour in over 15 years, Midnight Oil played in 16 countries, across five continents, bringing the passionate and unrestrained tour to millions who, frankly, never thought such a reunion could happen. Frontman Peter Garrett had served as the Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives from October 2004 to August 2013. He served as President of the Australian Conservation Foundation for ten years. Midnight Oil, as a unit, effectively ceased to exist and once someone leaves the stage for politics, they seldom return.

However, in 2016, Garrett did return with his first solo album, A Version of Now, which spurred on gossip and speculation – rewarded a year later with the announcement of Midnight Oil’s reformation and tour only a year later.

As strident supporters of ecological matters, the Oils have been known for their protest efforts all the way back to the start, but most jarringly on their 1990 album Blue Sky Mining. Even then, dismissive critics took to calling the band “prophets of doom.” Yet, according to the BBC, by way of the website The Daily Beast: “The world’s leading scientists have warned governments that there are only ten years left to avoid a global catastrophe. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unveiled their latest report in South Korea early Monday morning (October 8, 2018), and warned that ‘rapid, far-reaching, and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society’ is needed to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees.”

It would seem that the world needs Midnight Oil’s message now more than ever.

TRACKLISTING

DVD / BLU-RAY

1. INTRO
2. ARMISTICE DAY
3. REVEILLE
4. REDNECK WONDERLAND
5. READ ABOUT IT
6. LUCKY COUNTRY
7. WARAKURNA
8. HERCULES
9. TRUGANINI
10. SECTION FIVE (BUS TO BONDI)
11. STAND IN LINE
12. SHORT MEMORY
13. TREATY
14. US FORCES
15. KOSCIUSZKO
16. THE DEAD HEART
17. BEDS ARE BURNING
18. DON’T WANNA BE THE ONE
19. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
20. WEDDING CAKE ISLAND
21. POWER AND THE PASSION
22. FORGOTTEN YEARS
23. BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

BONUS TRACKS

1. ONLY THE STRONG
2. NO TIME FOR GAMES

ALBUM

1. ARMISTICE DAY
2. READ ABOUT IT
3. HERCULES
4. SECTION FIVE (BUS TO BONDI)
5. TREATY
6. BEDS ARE BURNING
7. SHIPS OF FREEDOM
8. WARAKURNA
9. US FORCES
10. BLUE SKY MINE
11. STAND IN LINE
12. POWER AND THE PASSION
13. FORGOTTEN YEARS

1. REDNECK WONDERLAND
2. DON’T WANNA BE THE ONE
3. PUT DOWN THAT WEAPON
4. KOSCIUSZKO
5. ONLY THE STRONG
6. THE DEAD HEART
7. NO TIMES FOR GAMES
8. SHORT MEMORY
9. TRUGANINI
10. DREAMWORLD
11. GOLDEN AGE
12. SOMETIMES
13. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN

OILS AT THE REEF (EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE ON DELUXE EDITION)

1. SURFING WITH A SPOON
2. SOMETIMES
3. KOALA SPRINT
4. SHIPS OF FREEDOM
5. SHORT MEMORY
6. BLUE SKY MINE
7. NO TIME FOR GAMES
8. DREAMWORLD
9. ANTARCTICA
10. READ ABOUT IT
11. PROGRESS