Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil today announced their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection called “The Overflow Tank” which will contain more than 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material.
 
“The Great Circle 2017” World Tour will see the group’s classic line-up literally circle around our overheating planet for 6 months, starting and ending with gigs in Sydney. Appropriately for a band forged in their hometown’s sweat-drenched beer barns, the tour will begin in mid-April with an intimate local pub gig (details to be announced closer to the date). Midnight Oil will then hone their live show with over 30 gigs around the world during the northern summer, playing iconic venues from Sao Paulo’s Espaço das Americas and the Wiltern in L.A. to London’s Hammersmith Apollo and The Olympia in Paris. They will share festival stages with artists like Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies and finally return to New Zealand after 20 years.
 
This long-awaited World Tour will climax with 18 special homecoming concerts through October and November, 2017. Given the band’s deep connections with central Australia the local leg will kick off in Alice Springs and Darwin before starting to circle their homeland with a show in the rainforest near Cairns. Over the following five weeks the tour will loop clockwise around the country in mainly outdoor venues including Hope Estate in the Hunter Valley, Victoria’s Hanging Rock and Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Brisbane’s Riverstage and the Village Green beside Adelaide Oval before “The Great Circle” finally comes to a close right back where it all began; with a final show in Sydney on November 11 at that traditional home of Australian political activism, The Domain. 

People who sign up to Midnight Oil’s mailing list at www.midnightoil.com/mailing-list in the next few days will get first access to Australian tickets in a special presale on Thursday February 23rd alongside Frontier Touring Members. Remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday February 27th.  
 
All dates, venues, line-ups and ticket information are listed below (digital version here). Exact on sale times are deliberately being staggered from show to show to reduce website congestion so fans should pay very careful attention to all the details at www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates . Extensive anti-scalping measures are being taken around this tour so fans are formally advised to only buy tickets from the official ticket agencies listed on the band’s website to avoid possible fraud and needless overpayment via so called “reselling” sites.

Midnight Oil is more than just a rock ‘n’ roll band. In 2017 they will finally bring things back to where they all began. The circle remains unbroken.

 

 
 

MIDNIGHT OIL
Peter Garrett – Lead Vocals
Rob Hirst – Drums + Vocals
Martin Rotsey – Guitar
Jim Moginie – Guitar, Keyboards + Vocals
Bones Hillman – Bass + Vocals

 

MIDNIGHT OIL – THE GREAT CIRCLE TOUR
#Oils2017

Frontier Members pre-sale via frontiertouring.com/midnightoil
Thursday 23 February to Friday 24 February
Pre-sale times are staggered per show, visit the website for more details
(or ends earlier if pre-sale allocation exhausted)

Midnight Oil pre-sale via midnightoil.com
Thursday 23 February to Friday 24 February
Pre-sale times are staggered per show, visit the website for more details
(or ends earlier if pre-sale allocation exhausted)

General public on sale Monday 27 Feb
See start times below

Mon 2 Oct | ANZAC Oval, Alice Springs, NT (18+*)
With Dan Sultan & Apakatjah
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12:30pm local time)

Wed 4 Oct | Darwin Amphitheatre, Darwin, NT (18+*)
With Dan Sultan & Irrunytju Band
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12:30pm local time)
Presented locally by Mix 104.9

Sat 7 Oct  | Kuranda Amphitheatre, Cairns, QLD (18+*)
With Urthboy
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon local time)
Presented locally by Triple M

Tue 10 Oct | Townsville Entertainment Centre, Townsville, QLD (All Ages)
With Urthboy
tecc.net.au | Ph: (07) 4771 400
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon local time)
Presented locally by 4TO

Thu 12 Oct | Great Western Hotel, Rockhampton, QLD (18+*)
With Urthboy
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon local time)
Presented locally by Triple M

Sat 14 Oct | Big Pineapple Fields, Sunshine Coast, QLD (18+*)
With The Living End & Jebediah
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon local time)
Presented locally by 92.7 Mix FM

Sun 15 Oct | Riverstage, Brisbane, QLD (All Ages)
With The Jezabels
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (1pm local time)
Presented locally by Triple M

Thu 19 Oct | Hockey Fields, Coffs Harbour (18+*)
With Jebediah & Jack River
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon AEDT)
Presented locally by Triple M

Sat 21 Oct | Hope Estate, Hunter Valley, NSW (18+*)
With Birds of Tokyo & Ash Grunwald
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon AEDT)
Presnted locally by KOFM

Tue 24 Oct | AIS Arena, Canberra, ACT (All Ages)
With Something For Kate
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon AEDT)
Presented locally by MIX 106.3

Thu 26 Oct | The Village Green Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, SA (All Ages)
With Spiderbait & Bad//Dreems
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (1.30pm local time)
Presented locally by Triple M

Sat 28 Oct | Perth Arena, Perth, WA (All Ages)
With Spiderbait
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (12noon local time)
Presented locally by Triple M

Wed 1 Nov | Derwent Entertainmnent Centre, Hobart, TAS (All Ages)
With The Jezabels
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (3pm AEDT)
Presented locally by Triple M

Fri3 Nov | Gateway Lakes, Wodonga, VIC (18+*)
With The Living End
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (3pm AEDT)
Presented locally by Triple M

Sat 4 Nov | Hanging Rock, Mt Macedon, VIC (18+*)
With John Butler Trio, Something for Kate, Frank Yamma & David Bridie
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (2pm AEDT)
Presented locally by Triple M

Mon 6 Nov | Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, VIC (All Ages)
With The Jezabels & Adalita
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (4pm AEDT)
Presented locally by Triple M

Wed 8 Nov | Win Entertainment Centre, Wollongong, NSW (All Ages)
With Abbe May
ticketmaster.com.au | Ph: 136 100
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (2pm AEDT)
Presented locally by WAVE FM

Sat 11 Nov | The Domain, Sydney, NSW (18+*)
With John Butler Trio & A.B.Original
ticketek.com.au | Ph: 132 849
On sale: Mon 27 Feb (11am AEDT) 
Presented locally by Triple M

* U18s must be accompanied by parent/legal guardian

INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES:
Full details at www.midnightoil.com/tour-dates/
 
SOUTH AMERICA
Tue 25 Apr | Pepsi on Stage, Porto Alegre
Thu 27 Apr | Live, Curtiba
Sat 29 Apr | Espaço das Americas, São Paolo
Sun 30 Apr | Vivo Rio, Rio De Janeiro
Tue 2 May | NET Live, Brasilia  
 
NORTH AMERICA
 Sat 6 May | Center Stage, Atlanta, GA
Tue 9 May | The Filmore, Silver Spring, MD
Thu 11 May | House of Blues, Boston, MA
Sat 13 May | Webster Hall, New York City, NY
Tue 16 May | Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Thu 18 May | The Vic, Chicago, IL          
Sat 20 May | Danforth Theatre, Toronto, Canada
Tue 23 May | Paramount Theatre, Denver, CO
Thu 25 May | The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA
Sat 27 May | Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA
Mon 29 May | Revolution Hall, Portland, OR
Wed 31 May | Moore Theatre, Seattle, WA
Fri 2 June | The Commodore, Vancouver, Canada
 
EUROPE + UK
Wed 21 Jun | E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
Fri 23 Jun | Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland
Sun 25 Jun | Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin, Germany
Tue 27 Jun | Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Thu 29 Jun | Rockafeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
Sat 1 Jul | Furuviksparken, Gävle, Sweden
Tue 4 Jul | Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK
Thu 6 Jul | Olympia, Paris, France
Fri 7 Jul |  Festival de Beauregard, Hérouville-Saint-Claire, France
Sun 9 Jul | Les Deferlantes Festival, Argeles-sur-Mer, France
Wed 12 Jul |  Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland  
Fri 14 Jul |  Musilac, Aix Les Bains, France   
Sun 16 Jul | Les Vieilles Charrues, Carhaix, France
Tue 18 Jul | Batschkapp, Frankfurt, Germany
Fri 21 Jul | Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
 
NEW ZEALAND
Sat 9 Sep | Vector Arena, Auckland, NZ        
Mon 11 Sep | Horncastle Arena, Christchurch, NZ 

 

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