Australian rock icons Midnight Oil called it quits back in 2002, apart from a couple reunion shows, but have announced they’ll be reforming for a world tour in 2017:
We know it’s been a while but we wanted to tell you that the five of us are finally making plans to get together again for some gigs next year. We’re looking forward to hopefully playing overseas and touring our homeland for the first time since 2002.
We won’t know exactly when, where and what we’ll be doing before next January at the earliest so in the meantime please just ignore any rumours. Unless and until you hear about something from us you can safely assume that it’s not yet confirmed.
Midnight Oil probably mixed anthemicism, strident politics and a thrilling live show as good as anyone did in the ’80s/’90s, and records like 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1, Diesel and Dust, and Blue Sky Mining are classics. Welcome back.
In other news frontman Peter Garrett, who had been focusing on politics, will be releasing his first-ever solo album. Stay tuned for more news on that and the Oils return. Meanwhile stream those aforementioned albums and live video of “Forgotten Years” from 2005, below.