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Watch Midnight Oil's ARIA Hall Of Fame Induction


Midnight Oil is a band that made a career out of making noise about the important issues. They brought a new sense of political and social immediacy to pop music with incendiary hits like Beds Are Burning and Blue Sky Mine, which brought global attention to the plight of, respectively, Aboriginal settlers and impoverished workers. Midnight Oil always put its money where its mouth was - in addition to staging benefit performances for groups like Greenpeace and Save the Whales, former singer Peter Garrett is now fighting from the frontline as a Member of Parliament for the Federal Labour Party in the NSW seat of Kingsford-Smith.

The Oils defied all musical fashions to create fourteen extraordinary albums with combined international record sales of more than 12 million units. As a musical unit they railed against injustice, apathy, inequality and the lurking evil forces of cynicism and conservatism with sound, fury and righteous indignation.

On October 28, Midnight Oil released their 18th album 'Flat Chat' - a cross section of heart kicking classics featuring the Oils at their hard, fast and rocking best and demonstrates once again why Midnight Oil were regarded as one of Australia?s premier international rock bands.

"We always tried to make music with words that spoke to the times and with actions that backed up the words, so it's a mighty honour to be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame after more than 25 years of writing and performing together," said Midnight Oil's lead singer, Peter Garrett.

Check out the tracklisting and more info on 'Flat Chat' here.

Midnight Oil's new album 'Flat Chat' in stores now