Limited release, announced today: Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mining (Limited Edition Clear Blue Vinyl +Signed Book Set). Visit the online store by CLICKING HERE.
Own a piece of Australian music history with this strictly limited edition collector’s set featuring Midnight Oil’s iconic Blue Sky Mining pressed on clear blue vinyl, paired with Red Filter Blue Sky – a 100-page photography book by Jim Moginie.
Captured during the legendary 1990 Blue Sky Mining tour, the book offers a rare behind-the-scenes look through Jim’s own lens. Only 300 record + book packs are available and each copy of Red Filter Blue Sky is personally signed by Jim Moginie and individually numbered, making every set a genuine collector’s item.
“Midnight Oil’s Blue Sky Mining worldwide tour consisted of about 114 shows in 1990. While researching my book ‘The Silver River’, I found an Ilford film box marked ‘Kerry: Midnight Oil’ containing a series of my photos taken at that time with a Nikon FG-1 film camera, using black and white film with a red filter. Most of the band had film cameras then. We wanted to get those John Ford clouds that everyone in photography talks about. My son Sam has a printing press in Melbourne and suggested we make a funky small book from them called ‘Red Filter Blue Sky’, both thinking it timely that it first appeared bundled with the Blue Sky album re-issue. They say ‘it’s all about the work’ and there was much of it. The photos are a jump start memory of that time. Airport tarmacs, Akubra hats, fans at airports, crew, Harley Davidsons, guitars, backstage, floral hotel room bedspreads, Roman amphitheatres, existential angst, feeding babies, the tour bus and images taken from its fast moving window. And the guys and the kind of enchanted chemistry only a long term band like Midnight Oil can achieve: the blank looks, the shit eating grins, the mid distance stares. Joking and laughing, waiting in hotel lobbies followed by more waiting, deep camaraderie.” – Jim Mognine. 2026.
