Midnight Oil 1984, the new documentary from director Ray Argall, is a curious piece of work. It's an intensely focused film that looks at just one chapter – albeit a very significant one – in ...

Surely the most impressive live act to emerge during the golden age of Australian pub rock, Midnight Oil enjoyed a watershed year in 1984. They recorded and toured their landmark fifth album ...

From Midnight Oil's birth in the early 1970s ... made life hard for all of them in 1984 as he campaigned by day and performed by night. Yet they remained remarkably sanguine.

A few years back came Midnight Oil: 1984, a documentary that captures a particularly thrilling moment in time for the band and one that ought to be essential viewing for any live music fan.

As it happens, Power and the Passion features twice in Ray Argall’s absorbing documentary Midnight Oil: 1984. Yet the song came out in 1982, not the year the movie focuses on, the one when the ...

Midnight Oil is playing today’s Olympic closing ceremony ... Garrett lives out his lyrics as well, running in 1984 for the Australian Senate on the Nuclear Disarmament Party ticket, losing ...

Behind-the-scenes, however, Midnight Oil: 1984 is much more tame. The biggest take-home message from Argall’s documentary, apart from the band’s ferocious work ethic, is that Garrett ...

A NEW documentary revisits the year when Midnight Oil were at the peak of their fame, but simultaneously set to lose it all as Peter Garrett chased a seat in parliament. It was 1984 and Midnight ...

In 1984, Midnight Oil released their iconic record Red Sails in the Sunset. They embarked on a relentless tour around the nation performing raw and electrifying music that reignited the ...