MIDNIGHT OIL ANNOUNCE NEW RECORD + FINAL TOUR

Resist is set to arrive early next year!

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Australian icons Midnight Oil have announced their thirteenth studio album, RESIST, alongside the news of the bands final tour, set to take place early next year. Having emerged from their long hiatus in 2017, the four-piece are offering fans one last gift before closing this chapter of their careers.

Set to arrive early next year, the album was recorded with Bones, with production from Warne Livesey (DIESEL & DUST, BLUE SKY MINING, CAPRICORNIA), the record is set to comment on a number of issues prevalent within todays society that will affect future generations. Heralded by the single, Rising Seas, the track is a call for change and for the Australian government to address the global climate crisis and strive to make a difference and keep our planet safe for future generations.

Speaking of the record and tour, frontman Peter Garrett shares: “We all know time refuses to stand still for anyone but after many years together the band’s spirit is deep, the music and words are strong, and our ideas and actions as bold as we can make them. We’ve reached people in ways we never could have imagined. Our desire to create and speak out is undimmed. We hope everyone who hears this album and gets to one of the shows will come away charged up about the planet’s future, saying ‘why stop now?'. Having always tackled every tour like it's the last - this time it actually will be.”

Guitarist Jim Moginie adds: “We’ve played intensely physical gigs since our humble beginnings back in 1977 and we never want to take even the slightest risk of compromising that. A lot has happened over the last five years. Much has been achieved and with the passing of Bones much has been lost, so it now feels like we’re at the end of a cycle. These will be sad and beautiful gigs but luckily we’re still capable of blowing the roof off any stage and that’s what we intend to do. You could call this a farewell tour, but Midnight Oil will still continue in some form or other as we’re brothers, family. We stand as one, dependent on each other and grateful in all the important ways that make great bands great.”

Kicking off with sets at MONA FOMA in Tasmania this January, the final run of shows will continue on to Newcastle, Orange, Wollongong, Geelong, Melbourne, Rutherglen, Swan Valley, Adelaide, Darwin, Cairns, the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane and Canberra, before wrapping up in at Sydney's Qudos Bank Arena on April 21. The band will also appear at Bluesfest in Byron Bay in the midst of their extensive national tour.

Rising Seas is out now! Full tour details below.