Midnight Oil and Other Oz Music

An excellent-sounding bootleg if interested. @Patrick, I assume that you caught the Oils' swing through Canada four months before attending their final concerts in Oz, as noted on page 1 of this thread.

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Midnight Oil - Malkin Bowl, Vancouver, Canada, 6-1-2022

Today, I updated the links for most of the Midnight Oil albums posted here, for various reasons. While doing that, I got to wondering what t...
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jamesdeluxe said:
An excellent-sounding bootleg if interested. @Patrick, I assume that you caught the Oils' swing through Canada four months before attending their final concerts in Oz, as noted on page 1 of this thread.
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No, Midnight Oil skipped Montreal and played Toronto and we were visiting Chicago for the first time and caught Tears for Fears for the 1st time since 1985. I just timed the skiing in order to catch the Oil; initially thinking about NZ in early September, but my calendar was pretty filled up with a trip out to Alberta and a couple Bauhaus shows in Toronto and NYC… that North America was canceled.
Last year’s European trip was timed to catch Fish final tour (I had never seen him except with early Marillion. This year’s trip, Propaganda in Germany.
 
Sbooker said:
RIP legend Rob Hirst.
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Very sad, I had no idea that he was ill. I remember when I first saw their videos in the early 80s. Of course, everyone was mesmerised by Garrett's Frankenstein-on-speed dance moves; however, I (a closet drummer) took note of Rob's excellent bashing behind the kit as shown in this clip at age 26:

 
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