The Australian rock band Midnight Oil had always had a political bent so it really wasn’t that much of a surprise when its lead singer, the very tall and very bald Peter Garrett, decided to run for – ...

“Oh, shit, I can’t believe it,” murmured the Midnight Oil fan sitting behind me as the band took to the Paramount Theatre stage on Tuesday, May 23. The New Yorker in his early forties had listened to ...

"The normal thing for a band to do would to be to keep on toward the bright, shining lights – but instead we went completely in another direction." Roadshow Films has revealed an official trailer for ...

AS iconic rock band Midnight Oil hit local soil for the final leg of their tour, they reveal why they are not slowing down, and ready to be ‘extinct’ yet. A couple of weeks into the American leg of ...

Bones Hillman, the longtime time bassist of Australian rock band Midnight Oil, has died at the age of 62. The band announced the news on their social media channels, saying that Hillman died on ...

The 71st Sydney Film Festival has announced that it will present the World Premiere of Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line for its Opening Night Gala on Wednesday, June 5, at the State Theatre, followed by ...

At their Saturday concert, Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett tried to fit in as a Summerfest party band, examining the half-sauced crowd and joking: "Sometimes too much beer is never enough!" But Sammy ...

It’s hardly surprising though, given that the veteran Aussie rockers have been passionate about Indigenous issues since their trailblazing 1986 Black Fella/White Fella tour of Outback Australia with ...

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian rock band Midnight Oil said on Friday they will play their first world tour in 20 years, vowing to continue their political activism during the six-month, fifty-show ...

Sometime around the day when “the music died,” on February 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly’s plane crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, killing him, Ritchie Valens and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, depending ...