Legendary Australian rock band Midnight Oil today announced their first world tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow Tank” which will contain more than 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
“The Great Circle 2017” World Tour will start and end with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig (details to be announced closer to the date).
Midnight Oil will then perform 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer and share festival stages with artists like The Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years. This long-awaited World Tour will climax with 18 special homecoming concerts through October-November 2017.
These will be Midnight Oil’s only shows in the last 15 years apart from two stadium benefit concerts (and their related small warmup gigs) in Australia in 2005 and 2009. It will also be the group’s most extensive world tour since their classic late 80’s/early 90’s albums like “Diesel & Dust”, “Blue Sky Mining” and “Earth & Sun & Moon” sold over 10 million copies around the globe.
All dates, venues and ticket information are listed below. Exact onsale times are deliberately being staggered from show to show to reduce website congestion so fans should pay careful attention to all the details at www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates. Extensive anti-scalping measures are being taken around this tour so fans are also formally advised to only buy tickets from the official ticket agencies listed on the band’s website to avoid possible fraud and needless overpayment via so called “reselling” sites.
In a press conference on Sydney Harbour, the band also announced the impending release of a remastered CD box set called “The Full Tank” featuring all of their existing albums and EP’s plus a mammoth new 4 CD/8 DVD trove called “The Overflow Tank” which will include over 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
Both of these box sets will be housed in replica miniature water tanks like the one featured onstage at so many ‘Oils’ gigs. The band also unveiled their first ever complete Vinyl collection which will feature 11 remastered LP’s and two 12” EP’s all cut at Abbey Rd Studios in London. The three box sets will be released around the start of the tour but full tracklistings and pre-orders are available now via www.midnightoil.com.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Australian culture knows the basics of Midnight Oil’s story. They are the incendiary post-punk band from Sydney’s northern beaches who shunned pop TV shows, forging a fierce bond with their audience through nonstop gigging and jagged Oz rock classics like “Back On The Borderline”, “Bus To Bondi” and “Don’t Wanna Be The One”.
They are the musical innovators who turned high tech, anti-jingoistic polemic into hits like “Power & The Passion”, “U.S. Forces” and “When The Generals Talk”. They are the activists whose social justice campaigning includes “The Dead Heart”, “Redneck Wonderland”, “Beds Are Burning” and hijacking the 2000 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony with their “Sorry” suits.
They are the committed humanists and environmentalists who brought us anthems like “Blue Sky Mine”, “Forgotten Years” and “Say Your Prayers” plus a string of protests from the Tasmanian wilderness and the Jabiluka Uranium mine near Kakadu to mid-town Manhattan where they unforgettably stopped traffic outside the Exxon building after the Alaskan oil spill.
In keeping with the band’s longstanding commitments, their carbon footprint during “The Great Circle” World Tour will, of course, be fully offset and sustainability initiatives will be undertaken at all shows. Midnight Oil will also continue their collaborations with local and international environmental organizations including Greenpeace, supporting their campaigns on crucial issues like dangerous climate change and the imminent threats to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
MIDNIGHT OIL is:
Rob Hirst – Drums + Vocals
Martin Rotsey – Guitar
Peter Garrett – Lead Vocals
Jim Moginie – Guitar, Keyboards + Vocals
Bones Hillman – Bass + Vocals
North American Tour Dates:
Sat 6 May Center Stage | Atlanta, GA (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Fri 17 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 12 hours)
On sale: Sat 18 Feb (12.30pm local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2lIhfF
Tue 9 May The Filmore | Silver Spring, MD (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Wed 22 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 36 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2lMQdNO
Thu 11 May House of Blues | Boston, MA (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Thu 23 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 12 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2kIfusw
Sat 13 May Webster Hall | New York City, NY (18+)
websterhall.com | Ph: (212) 353 1600
Pre-sale: Wed 22 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 36 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/MidnightOilNYC2017
Tue 16 May Keswick Theatre | Glenside, PA (All ages)
axs.com | Ph: 888 929 7849
On sale: Fri 17 Feb (12.00pm local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2kDk6PD
Thu 18 May The Vic | Chicago, IL (18+)
ticketfly.com | Ph: (901) 525 4611
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://ticketf.ly/2lI7k6X
Sat 20 May Danforth Theatre | Toronto, Canada (19+)
ticketmaster.ca | Ph: 1-855-985-5000
Pre-sale: Fri 17 Feb (10:00am local time, ends Sun 19 Feb 10:00pm local time)
On sale: Tue 21 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct Link: www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1000524FDCC4D3A2
Tue 23 May Paramount Theatre | Denver, CO (All ages)
altitudetickets.com | Ph: 866 461 6556
Pre-sale: Thu 23 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 12 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2l8rJ41
Thu 25 May The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Thu 23 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 12 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2lNJcf2
Sat 27 May Fox Theatre | Oakland, CA (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Thu 23 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 14 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2kQaS5f
Mon 29 May Revolution Hall | Portland, OR (21+)
ticketfly.com | Ph: (901) 525 4611
Pre-sale: Thu 16 Feb (3:00pm local time, ends after 19 hours)
On sale: Fri 17 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://ticketf.ly/2lN4FWi
Wed 31 May Moore Theatre | Seattle, WA (All ages)
ticketmaster.com | Ph: 800 653 8000
Pre-sale: Thu 23 Feb (10:00am local time, ends after 12 hours)
On sale: Fri 24 Feb (10:00am local time)
Direct link: http://bit.ly/2lDSkH0
Fri 2 June The Commodore | Vancouver, Canada (19+)
ticketmaster.ca | Ph: 1-855-985-5000
Pre-sale: Fri 17 Feb (10:00am local time, ends Sun 19 Feb 10:00pm local time)
On sale: Tue 21 February (10:00am local time)
Direct Link: www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1100524EEF5EA2D0
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