Midnight Oil live in SA for one show only
Legendary Australian rock band and activists, Midnight Oil announced their first show in South Africa 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 Johannesburg show is included as part of the sold out “The Great Circle 2017” World Tour, featuring the group in its classic line-up. The world tour kicked off in mid-April and Midnight Oil will be performing over 30 gigs around the world reaching Johannesburg on Saturday the 29th of July. During the world tour they will share festival stages with artists like Arcade Fire, Sting and The Pixies.
Release of “The Full Tank” CD box set
The band have also announced the impending release of a remastered CD box set called “The Full Tank” featuring all of their existing albums and EP’s plus a mammoth new 4 CD/8 DVD trove called “The Overflow Tank” which will include over 14 hours of previously unreleased and rare material. Both of these box sets will be housed in replica miniature water tanks like the one featured onstage at so many ‘Oils’ gigs. The band also unveiled their first ever complete Vinyl collection which will feature 11 remastered LP’s and two 12” EP’s all cut at Abbey Rd Studios in London. The three box sets will be released around the start of the tour but full track-listings and pre-orders are available on their website.
In keeping with the band’s longstanding commitments, their carbon footprint during “The Great Circle” World Tour will, of course, be fully offset and sustainability initiatives will be undertaken at all shows. Midnight Oil will also continue their collaborations with local and international environmental organisations including Greenpeace, supporting their campaigns on crucial issues like dangerous climate change and the imminent threats to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
At one level “The Great Circle 2017” simply reflects the geographic reality that the tour will loop around the world and circle Australia. At another level the name clearly implies the planet itself but it has a further meaning too. Sailors, and airmen use “the great circle” to navigate the globe because on a sphere the shortest distance between two points is not usually a straight line. How appropriate for a group who has always been deeply engaged with the world around them but whose career path has never been linear. 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 band:
Rob Hirst – Drums + Vocals
Martin Rotsey – Guitar
Peter Garrett – Lead Vocals
Jim Moginie – Guitar, Keyboards + Vocals
Bones Hillman – Bass + Vocals
Event Information:
Saturday, 29 July 2017
Marks Park, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
Gates open at 11:00 / Concert ends at 17:00
Supporting acts to be announced.
General admission standing: R495 (excl. R25 ticket service fee)
Golden circle standing: R745 (excl. R25 ticket service fee)
Pre-register for tickets here
Ticket sales open Friday, 28 April 2017 at 09:00am – get it here.
No Transfers. No refunds. Ticket sales limited to 10 tickets per person.
Facebook event will take place here
