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December 17, 2021

Midnight Oil releases new song from their forthcoming album “Resist”

Midnight Oil just dropped a brand new song from their forthcoming album “Resist”. Their tour of the same name kicks off next month with sold out gigs in Hobart and Launceston so the band has appropriately chosen to share a new track called “Tarkine”. Full visualiser, below.

The Tarkine/Takayna wilderness in north Western Tasmania contains Australia’s largest temperate rainforest, a trove of Aboriginal sites featured on the National Heritage list, rich habitats for local wildlife such as the Tasmanian Devil, and the cleanest air in the world, according to UN monitoring.

This new Oils song celebrates the unique rapture of a wilderness experience. The work takes on extra poignancy given current plans to expand a nearby mine with a tailings dam that would impinge on this pristine area (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/06/where-mining-meets-rainforest-the-battle-for-tasmanias-tarkine)

The band supports calls for World Heritage protection of the Tarkine and urges Federal and State Governments to preserve this extraordinary part of Australia for future generations (https://www.change.org/p/protect-takayna-tarkine-as-a-world-heritage-area)

Tickets for Midnight Oil’s Final Tour – “Resist” – are onsale now with six shows already sold out (www.midnightoil.com/tour). “Resist”, the new album, is released on February 18 and can be pre-ordered here: http://www.onrepeat.com.au/collections/midnight-oil

 

 

 

December 15, 2021

Midnight Oil encourage fans from around the world to contribute to their new video ‘We Resist.’

“Free market and labour rights
women’s vote and hunger strikes
war is over in Times Square
please don’t say that nobody cares
standing up to those who sell fear
with a polite insistence to hear…”
 
We’re encouraging Oils fans from around the world to contribute to our new video ‘We Resist.’ Can you please share photos or videos of your protest moment? You might have a photo taken at the Walk For Reconciliation in 2000, or maybe you recently took part in your first protest rally and created a placard? Whenever or wherever it happened we’d like to share and amplify your voice.
 
Upload your protest moment, here: https://MidnightOil.lnk.to/WeResist
December 1, 2021

RESIST. THE FINAL TOUR. ON SALE NOW. ‘RISING SEAS’ PERFORMANCE ON THE SOUND.

RESIST. THE FINAL TOUR. ON SALE NOW.
www.midnightoil.com/tour

Midnight Oil – Rising Seas on The Sound
Produced by Mushroom Creative House