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Rob, Jim and Martin Form New Surf Band With Violent Femmes' Brian Ritchie
It's a union that will delight music fans, surf rats, and festival goers alike. Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey have joined with bass player Brian Ritchie of US group Violent Femmes to form a new surf rock band called THE BREAK. Check it out at
<a href="http://www.thebreak.net.au" target="_blank">www.thebreak.net.au</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thebreakau" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/thebreakau</a>.
Beds Are Burning: Tck Tck Tck - It's Time For Climate Justice
Midnight Oil's international hit 'Beds are Burning' is the focus of the first ever global music petition. The 'Dry River Bed' version of the song which features celebrities from around the world is available free online and every download will automatically add the listener to the list of supporters. The "Tck Tck Tck, Time for Climate Justice" campaign is aimed at influencing world leaders when they meet in December in Copenhagen to come up with a robust and fair replacement for the Kyoto Agreement, due to expire in 2012.
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Released: 16.02.08
It’s 21 years since the release of ‘Diesel and Dust’
To mark it's coming of age the album has been digitally remastered and a limited edition release will include a bonus DVD of 'Blackfella/Whitefella', the documentary of the Oils' 1986 tour of remote Aboriginal settlements with the Warumpi Band.
Performance footage on the DVD includes 'Power and the Passion', 'Best of Both Worlds' and 'Read About It' along with film clips for The Dead Heart and Beds are Burning. The hour long doco also features brilliant performances by the Warumpi Band whose song 'Blackfella/Whitefella' gave its name to the tour.
"This album is the last word in rock & roll road songs….. Diesel and Dust is soaked in real gas fumes and caked with real grit; it shakes and roars and throbs like the giant double-trailer trucks that chew up the thin asphalt ribbons and rough dirt tracks stretched across the Red Centre, Australia's desert heart."
- David Fricke, Rolling Stone (USA)
To mark it's coming of age the album has been digitally remastered and a limited edition release will include a bonus DVD of 'Blackfella/Whitefella', the documentary of the Oils' 1986 tour of remote Aboriginal settlements with the Warumpi Band.
Performance footage on the DVD includes 'Power and the Passion', 'Best of Both Worlds' and 'Read About It' along with film clips for The Dead Heart and Beds are Burning. The hour long doco also features brilliant performances by the Warumpi Band whose song 'Blackfella/Whitefella' gave its name to the tour.
"This album is the last word in rock & roll road songs….. Diesel and Dust is soaked in real gas fumes and caked with real grit; it shakes and roars and throbs like the giant double-trailer trucks that chew up the thin asphalt ribbons and rough dirt tracks stretched across the Red Centre, Australia's desert heart."
- David Fricke, Rolling Stone (USA)