Headlining the first weekend of Mona Foma festival, the band offered a rebuke of baby boomer nostalgia in a bittersweet live farewell.
Farewell tours often have one eye on the past and the other on the cash register – but if Midnight Oil’s show in Launceston on Sunday was any indication, they’re not coasting to the finish line.
The first of four performances for Tasmania’s Mona Foma festival – the band will play in Launceston once more, then on to Hobart – marks the start of a tour billed as the Oils’ last ever live shows.
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.
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
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.
